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papers are furnished with information. The Times, Bells Life, 
and the Dispatch, did not think fit to receive this unprofessional 
report. 
Richard Vines. 
1, Nassau-street, Middlesex Hospital, Aug. 19th, 1851. 
P.S. On the week prior to this transaction Dr. Locock sent 
me a dog for treatment, for which, for one week, I charged 10.?. 
The Doctor most handsomely presented me with a couple of 
sovereigns! What would Mr. Frere have done had he been in 
the Doctor’s place] 
THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1851. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
The Epidemiological Society was first introduced to 
the readers of The VETERINARIAN so long ago as August 
1850. In our journal for that month, its origin and pretensions 
are set forth in a letter forwarded to us by its then pro tem., 
but now one of its honorary secretaries, Mr. Tucker, of Berners- 
street, Oxford-street. In the December following, the society, 
in the interval formed and organized, held its first meeting ; on 
which occasion its distinguished president, Dr. Babington, de- 
livered an address, characterized no less by the historical lear^ 
ing displayed in it, on the rise and spread of epidemic disease 
in general, than by the interest it at the time excited, from con- 
taining some curious and valuable facts in respect to endemics in 
particular. In this eloquent address — an abstract of which will 
be found in our number for January of the present year — Dr. 
Babington sets forth “ the objects of the society” to be, “ to 
endeavour, by the light of modern science, to review all those 
causes which result in the manifestation and spread of epidemic 
diseases — to discover the causes at present unknown, and in- 
vestigate those which are ill understood — to collect together 
facts on which scientific researches may be securely based — to 
remove errors which impede their progress — and thus, as far as 
we are able, having made ourselves thoroughly acquainted with 
the strong holds of our enemies and their modes of attack, to 
