276 ON THE DISEASES OF FARM HORSES. 
first order. We mean the veteran, M. GlRARD, who in January 
last was taken from us at the advanced age of 82 years. 
M. Girard was formerly director of the Alfort School (to 
which he was the second successor of the renowned Bourgelat); 
and before his death, member of several learned societies, 
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, &c. &c. 
Some of our readers will probably remember the name of 
young Girard, son of the above distinguished Professor, whose 
work, on the teeth and age of the horse, was translated by 
Mr. Ganley, afterwards veterinary surgeon of the 11th Dragoons. 
With his son it was—cut off in early life, with every promise 
of one day rivalling his father—who under the Professor, es¬ 
tablished the Recueil de Midecine Veterinaire, in 1826—two 
years antecedent to the appearance of The VETERINARIAN. 
Veterinary science has lost also another votary in M. Brogniez, 
who was Professor of the veterinary school at Corgham-les- 
Bruxelles. M. Brogniez was noted for his fertility of invention. 
He produced a number of instruments, most of them highly inge¬ 
nious, among the most successful of which we may mention 
the tooth-rasp ( robot odontriteur), and his artificial foetus, so 
constructed as to be capable of being made to imitate the 
movements in parturition. We are promised an account of the 
different inventions of this clever mechanician in the next 
Recueil. 
Recueil de Med. Vet. February 1852. 
Home Department. 
THE DISEASES OF FARM HORSES ARISING FROM 
MISMANAGEMENT. 
' By V. S.‘ 
This is an important subject for the farmer’s consideration, 
for he frequently considers many of the losses he sustains in 
this respect as the consequence of natural causes over which 
there is no control, and which no knowledge can avert. I 
hope to be able, in the course of this essay, to convince persons 
entertaining such fated opinions, that thousands of horses 
annually perish from a neglect of the conditions required for 
their preservation in health and freedom from disease. 
With respect to food, I shall prove that many dangerous 
diseases arise from improper regulations of diet; as to quantity 
and quality, and the times at which it should be given—the 
