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Mr. Tegg passed his examination in 1844, and throughout 
his professional career has given his attention to the ma¬ 
ladies of other animals, as well as the horse, so that he is 
eminently fitted for the new duties imposed upon him. 
In our last number we stated that several of the candidates 
were of equal merit, and, as this was but an honest and 
proper rivalry, so we were convinced that the one who proved 
successful would receive the congratulations of his compe¬ 
titors as well as those of others. We feel assured that such 
is now the fact. 
PROMOTIONS IN THE ALE OUT SCHOOL. 
By virtue of a decree of the Minister of Agriculture, M. 
Raynal, Chef tie Service at the Alfort School, has just been 
appointed Professor of Pathology, Therapeutics, and Sani¬ 
tary Police, in the place of M. Delafond, who has been pro¬ 
moted to the office of Director of the School. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
ON THE SACCHARINE E UNCTION OE THE LIVER. 
By George Harley, M.D., F.C.S. 
Although it is now nearly two hundred years since our 
countryman, the celebrated Dr. Thomas Willis, made the im¬ 
portant discovery of the occasional presence of sugar in the 
human urine, it was not, until very recently, known that the 
formation of saccharine matter is constantly going on in the 
healthy animal body. 
Since Bernard, in 1848, communicated to the French 
Academy the discovery of the saccharine function of the 
animal organism, physiologists in all countries have more 
or less directed their attention to it. For a time various 
opinions were held by different observers regarding the origin 
of the sugar found in the body ; but at length it was gene¬ 
rally admitted that the liver had the power of forming a sub- 
