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of death, however large the quantity may, in some instances, 
have been. We believe that in the human frame, as well as 
in the animal, water in the chest may prevail without death 
ensuing rapidly ; at least, our experience goes to show that in 
many disorders which have been pronounced to proceed from 
that disease, life has been prolonged for some time. 
In the report Professor Simonds has made to the council of 
the Royal Agricultural Society, he has not gone elaborately 
into a diagnosis of this complaint; we are left, therefore, very 
much to conjecture into its cause and nature ; it may be that 
this particular herd had been exposed in some way on its 
progress southward, to exciting or predisposing causes, from 
which they peculiarly have suffered, and that what has hap- 
pened in this instance may not happen again ; it may be, as 
we feared at the onset, that this is really a new form of disease, 
dangerous from its results, and likely to baffle veterinarian 
skill, as pleuro-pneumonia has hitherto done. We trust, 
however, that the former is the true reading of the extra- 
ordinary symptoms which these cases disclosed. Happening, 
as they did at Goodwood, every care and attention was sure 
to be bestowed upon them, and the public is now at once 
made acquainted with the results. It is to be regretted, 
however, that Professor Simonds did not give more attention 
to the pathology of them than by his report he appears to 
have done. We cannot arrive at the conclusion that that 
report is satisfactory — especially called on by a body like the 
Council of the Royal Agricultural Society to visit and report 
upon a disease of this kind, we think, a much more close 
investigation should have taken a place, which ought to 
have been embodied in a report creditable alike to its author 
and the distinguished body to which it was addressed. 
We repeat our trust that this disease may not prove any 
thing more than one of those complaints brought on by 
individual causes, if we may so express ourselves, and which 
will not take an endemic or even an epidemic form amongst 
us. The calamity might have happened in a less celebrated 
locality than that of Goodwood, and the public have never 
heard about it ; as it is, we are warned in time, and we hope 
the warning will not be lost upon us, but that any symptoms 
of a disease so fatal in effects, will be duly reported by our 
intelligent veterinarians, and every means taken by them to 
trace the dire effects to their cause, and to supply a prompt 
and efficient remedy. — Farmers 1 Herald ; March , 1854. 
