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various committees, the deputations, and the Council itself, 
having over and over again affirmed the principle, now stand 
pledged before the whole profession, and are bound to carry 
it out whatever difficulties or assumed difficulties are put 
forward to oppose them ; let no subterfuge of any kind be 
put in the way of its fulfilment, let no member turn traitor 
to the cause, be an obstructionist or discordant, placing him- 
self athwart the path of progress ; let there be no Adullamite 
cave in the Council. 
If the present members of Council have not got deep, 
strong, and firm convictions, or have not got moral courage 
sufficient to enable them to stand to their colours, and 
announce their conscientious opinions regardless of the 
frowns or smiles of any man or any party, let them, I say, 
resign their trust to others who have stronger convictions, 
and have also a clearer sense of duty. 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
Accouding to the latest information received from Memel 
and Warsaw, precautionary measures were still in force to 
prevent the entrance of the cattle plague into the province 
of East Prussia or of Posen from either Russia or Poland. 
The frontiers were carefully guarded by troops in addition 
to the other means adopted by Prussia against the introduction 
of the disease. Galicia, Buckowina, and Transylvania are 
not yet free from the plague, but Hungary, it was hoped, 
had succeeded in again stamping it out. 
We have also received information from Trebizond and 
Erzeroum to the effect that the disease was declining in this 
part of Asiatic Turkey, but chiefly in consequence of the 
numerical diminution of the cattle. 
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
Excepting in Lombardy, where the malady was still widely 
spread, the reports from the Continent show that a considera- 
ble diminution has taken place in the attacks of the foot and 
mouth disease. Its introduction into Lombardy is said to be 
