LETTER FROM DR. BROMET TO MR. PERCIVALL. 45 
I cannot say ; nor could I take upon myself to assert that the me- 
grims were caused by the tumour, though in the present case there 
would appear to be strong grounds for such an opinion. 
The last two months have brought under my notice many such 
cases as that of Capt. R ’s charger (published last month) and 
the one I now send-— so far as relates to the “ colic” and “ consti- 
pation” parts of it. I at first supposed their occurrence might be 
owing to some endemic or local causes ; I suspected the forage, 
the water, &c. On inquiring further, however, I learned that simi- 
lar cases had appeared in other parts of the country, and am there- 
fore led to believe that the disease may be or have been epidemic 
among horses. Will any of the good readers of The VETERINA- 
RIAN inform us thereof] 
A LETTER FROM DR. BROMET, OF THE FIRST LIFE 
GUARDS, TO MR. PERCIVALL. 
I HAVE been much amused and instructed, since I last saw you, 
by assisting at the Scientific Congress of France. I had the honour 
of reading a paper at one of the meetings. I attended particularly 
the discussions on the medical sciences, and on literature and the 
fine arts. 
You will, no doubt, likewise derive some pleasure and profit 
from the questions that were discussed on your own peculiar art : 
with this intent, principally, I send you an account of them, and 
you are heartily welcome to use your pleasure with regard to them. 
I should, indeed, rejoice to be informed that the British Association 
• has followed the example of their much more methodical French 
scientific brethren by admitting veterinary science as one of the 
subjects of discussion. 
In the course of the next year I hope to turn my horses’ heads 
towards Rome and Naples, assisting the French Congress at Mont- 
pelier, and travelling thence to the Congress of Milan. 
The following were the veterinary subjects that were discussed 
on the eleventh scientific Congress of France, held in last September 
at Angers : — 
“What are the best means of improving the different races of 
the domestic animals for their several destinations] 
“ What are the principal epidemic diseases that have occurred 
in the departments of the Maine and Loire during the last twenty 
years ] 
