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left in the laud. On tlie previous Saturday Lc visited Mr. Marriage's 

 farm, and was perfectly astouished to find that the water there, after 

 passing tlu"ough some fields, and being used twice over again, was 

 brought into such a state that he would not have had the slightest 

 hesitation in drinking it. Although it was originally sewage, it had 

 become better for di-inking than many drinking-waters which he had 

 had sent to him to be analysed. 



The CHAiR:viAis- observed that what the Professor had just said about 

 flax-water was borne out by his own experience. Some time ago he 

 had a difficulty in getting rid of the water which came from the flax, 

 and which was most disagreeable. At last some steam-pumps were 

 i)ut up. About 1,500 barrels of flax-water a day were now discharged 

 on five or six acres of sandy laud, and the water which flowed into the 

 river from that land was as pure as it could possibly be. 



Meeting of the Wceldy Council, Wednesdmj, Jxine lAtJi. Mr. Raymond 

 Baekeb in the Chair. Dr. W. ]3udd, of Clifton, delivered his 



Lecture ox a TyrnoiD Fever in Pigs. 



Dr. BuDD said: I feel that as a medical man chiefly concerned 

 with diseases in the hiunau subject, I lay myself open to the charge 

 of presumption in attempting to speak of diseases in animals before an 

 agi*icultm-al audience, and especially in the presence of so distinguished 

 a veterinarian as my friend Professor Simonds. I must rely for my 

 vindication on the following facts : 1st, that the particular disease 

 of which I am about to show some results is one of the greatest 

 scientific importance ; 2nd, that, although it has been incidentally 

 noticed in veterinary aud scientific journals, it has never, so far as 

 I am aware, been scientifically and systematically described ; * and 

 3rd, that within the last few years it has been the cause of enormous 

 mortality among pigs in various parts of the kingdom, — a mortality 

 which is still proceeding, and which, if I may depend upon the state- 

 ments of persons connected with the pig-trade, is likely to' affect 

 materially the price of pork. I need scarcely observe that in these 

 days of dear meat anything that may affect the supply of food for the 

 working classes is matter of national concern. 



Another motive for bringing this disease under your notice is, that the 

 opportunities for prosecuting the inquiry further have passed out of 

 my hands. This fever, which was apparently very rife in my neigh- 

 bom-hood at one time, has now died out ; and I am extremely anxious 

 that the few i-udiments which I have brought together should not be 

 allowed to perish, but be placed in the hands of more competent 

 persons than myself, or persons having a larger field for investigations 

 of this kind. 



It may simplify what I have to say if I at once state that the 



* Unless a statement in the last edition of Eoll's ' Lehrbuch der Pathologie und 

 Therapie der Hausthiere,' article ' Gastrischer Fieber,' to the effect that all the 

 domestic animals are subject to a fever attended by ulceration of the intestine, be 

 supposed to include this malady, I have met with no mention of it anywhere. 

 Roll's book contains, however, no special description of this disease in the pig. 



