Vo. IV.] 
which being more filid than brilliant, and 
lefS attraétive than ufeful, difheartens 
by the feries of labours to undergo, and of 
difficulties to furmount, thofe who are not 
to be ftopped by the prejudices which ob- 
ftruct its entrance. 
Such is the veterinary art; which has 
lately loft Citizen Flandrin, after thirty 
years ufefully employed in extending the 
limits of it.. He was born at Lyons, Sept. 
12, 1752) Of parents more diftinguifhed 
by the purity of their manners, than 
by their fortune; by the utility than by 
the dignity of their profeffion. 
Tt was fome years after that epoch, that 
the eftablifhments deflined for the meliora- 
tion of.the art of preferving and curing 
animals—eftablifhment slong called for by 
the wifhes of all the friends of rural eco- 
nomy—the veterinary ichools, were fet on 
foot, firft at Lyons, and ‘afterwards at 
Paris. 
Citizen “Chabert, maternal uncle of 
Flandrin, charged with an important 
branch of inftruétion in one of thofe efta- 
blifhments, foon after their inftitution, had 
then excited great hopes, which he has 
well realized fince, and laid the founda- 
tion of the deferved reputation of being 
the firft veterinarian of his country. 
Among the fervices which he has ren- 
dered to the veterinary art, we ought not 
to confider as one of the leaft important, 
the having invited to him his nephew, as 
foon as he judged him capable of pro- 
fiting by his inftrudtions. 
Under the direétion of fo able and 
zealous a guide, young Flandrin could not 
fail to make improvement ; this he did fo 
rapidly, that at the age when mott other 
perfons make their cxsrée in this courfe, 
he was already employed to inftru&t them, 
and to. conduét their firft fteps in it. 
It was not long ere a wider field was 
epened to his activity and talents: the 
direction of the veterinary f{chool at Lyons, 
which became vacant on the refignation of 
Rofier. Flandrin was called to it; he 
there formed many artifts who have diftin- 
guithed themfelves by important fervices, 
and enriched the anatomical cabinet of the 
(cool with a great number of preparations, 
which attraét to it daily crowds of con- 
noifieurs, and all the foreigners who vifit 
thar celebrated city. 
When citizen Chabert was called, in177<, 
to the place of director-general of the vere- 
rinary fchools, vacant by the death of their 
founder, De Bourgelat (whofe memor 
- would have been honoured by this inftitu- 
,tion alone, if he had not illuftrated it by 
Jabours of the greateft importance) Flan- 
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Account of Flandrin. 
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drin was appointed to the place of direétora 
adjunét, which his uncle had occupied. 
Although a ftranger to none of the ele- 
ments, as numerousas diverfified, of which 
_the veterinary art is compofed, he had 
particularly devoted his attention to com- 
parative anatomy ; experiments on the ab-_ 
forption of the lymphatic veffels, dif- 
fertations -on the fingular’ conformation 
of the faripue (a (pecies of opoffum) on the 
Fe 
extent of the retina, and on a pretty large’ 
number of other points of comparative 
anatomy and phyfiology, evince in ticiraus | 
thor avery valuable fagacity, and make use 
regretthat he was prevented from executs 
ing the project he had conceived of an ex- 
tenfive work’ on comparative anatomy; a 
project, immenfe materials for which, he 
had been a long time laborioufly collect. 
ing. 
The academy of fciences, to which he 
prefented his differcations, and fome excel- 
lent obfervations on madnefs, gave him, in 
1791, icitres de correfpondant, which were 
not to him like fo many others, a brevet for 
inactivity ; they neither paralyfed his fcal- 
pel, nor his pen. ! 
Two journies undertaken by order of 
government, one into England, in178 5, and 
the other into Spain, in 1787, infpired hin 
with a very decided tafte for rural eco. 
nomy; the rearing of fheep, in which the 
Englifh and Spaniards have unhappily an 
acknowledged fuperiority over us, had 
above ail fixed his attention. 
fearches which he made on the manage- 
ment of theep im thofe two countries, have 
become the materials of a complete trea« 
tife, which he publifhed in the fecond 
year (in large octavo) on the rearing of 
fheep; a work * the richest in facts that 
we poficfs on this fubject. _ 
He had already puolifhed {ume works 
equally ufeful, but lefs important im 
regard to exrent: fuch as a précis of the 
anacomy of the horfe, a précis of the ex- 
terior knowledge of the fame animal, 
and a memoir on the pollibility of mehors 
ating horfes in France. 
Phe Fournal de Medecine, the colleGtion 
of memoirs of the Society of Agriculture, 
of Paris, of which he was a member, the 
papers called the Cultivator, the Mercure, 
the Yournal de Puris, and many other 
period:cal publications, contain a great 
number of differtations and letters. of ° 
Ca ree eNO TEAS AEC Td we eT OO 
* In this, a notice, very well drawn up, hag 
been inferred (by Huzurd, the editor) of ail 
the authors who have written on the fame fubs 
jet; 4 notice very interefting to fuch as‘dee 
vote their attention to refearches of this kind. 
Flandrin,. 
The re- 
