THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXIX, 
No. 342. 
JUNE, 1856. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 18. 
Communications and Cases. 
THE REPORT OF THE EPIZOOTIC COMMITTEE 
OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
ON PLEURO-PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE. 
To the Editors of the e Veterinarian .’ 
Gentlemen, — I begto acquaintyou and your readers, that, 
on the 7th of April, the Report of the Epizootic Committee 
of the Epidemiological Society, of which Professor Simonds 
was appointed Chairman, was read before the Society by Dr. 
M c William, as drawn up by Mr. Gabriel, Honorary Secretary 
to the Committee, from several hundred replies, received from 
gentlemen to whom the queries were sent in relation to pleuro- 
pneumonia among cattle. The report appeared to afford 
great satisfaction to the medical members present, one of 
whom, and who was not aware that the Epidemiological So- 
ciety was co-operating with members of the veterinary pro- 
fession, as regarded epizootics in the lower animals, said, 
that it afforded him very great satisfaction to find that such 
was the case, as he believed it would ultimately tend to throw 
great light upon epidemics affecting man, and epizootics the 
brute creation ; and he felt assured that a mutual advantage 
would be derived from such laudable co-operation. 
The report alluded to will appear in the Transactions of 
the Epidemiological Society, to be published in the Journal 
of Public Health, for July, 1856, where your readers will 
have an opportunity of perusing the document in detail. 
In the Veterinarian for September, 1851, will be found an 
article from the pen of its late editor, Mr. Percival, who for two 
years was a member of the council of the Epidemiological 
Society, by whom he was highly respected, and by whom his 
departure from life was sincerely deplored. As some of your 
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