FOUBTH PART. 



Suggestions on the Improvements to be effected in 

 the Study of Medical Science, in order that 

 we may be in a Condition to confront Diseases 

 generally, but Epizootic and Epidemic Diseases 

 in particular. 



THE epizootia of bovine typhus which is now 

 extending its unrestricted ravages over this 

 island, and which has assumed the magnitude 

 of a general calamity, has naturally excited and 

 stirred up the public mind. Thoughtful and 

 earnest men could not look on and witness un- 

 moved the ever progressive march of the 

 scourge ; but each observer has, consistently 

 with his means and qualifications, striven to 

 find a remedy to resist the evil. Thus, we 

 have seen, and with respectful interest we have 

 watched, the gentlemen of the press, and other 

 men of letters, economists, scientific men, and, 

 above all, physicians, producing from day to 



