312 PLEUllO-PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE. 
do or can do but little at the present day ? The spring which 
has just passed, and the summer which is now passing, can 
both vouch for this in the two influenzae that have been pre- 
vailing so alarmingly and extensively among our horses ; 
while the pleuro-pneumonia of former years is ready to be 
adduced as an equally potent incentive to our exertions on 
the part of cattle. 
“ While the veterinary public may with some confidence 
calculate on beneficial results from the labours, now about to 
commence, of the epizootic committee, the committee itself 
may reasonably look forw ard to essential services being ren- 
dered it by the learned Council of the Society, as well as out 
of arrangements which the Council have been enabled to 
make, through the nomination of foreign secretaries, wdth 
countries abroad. 
“ The hand held out by the professors of the sister science 
in this spirit of liberality and friendship, in furtherance of ob- 
jects of vital import to both professions, will be seized by the 
veterinary surgeon with cordiality and pride, and by him be 
hailed in token of abond w hich, uniting tw o professions engaged 
in common in promoting the healing art, can never suffer 
division or disseverment without detriment to one or both of 
the bodies it holds in union. Comparative anatomy and 
physiology and pathology cast their lights forward and back- 
ward from object to object in such manner, as through reci- 
procity of illumination, to cause the objects themselves to 
shine forth wdth redoubled brightness, while standing, as they 
do, in relation to one another, in a field in wdiich the sciences 
enjoy so wide and unrestricted a range. 
“ The epizootic committee held their first meeting at the 
residence of Mr. Tucker, on Tuesday, the 19th August : Pro- 
fessor Simonds, being appointed its permanent chairman. 
The list of members, as yet imperfect, we hope to be able to 
give in our next Number, and at the same time to have it in 
our power to annex some account of the proceedings of the 
Committee. We need hardly add, from the interest w r hich 
it must be plain to all w r e take in this matter, looking upon 
it, as w^e do, as one of vast consequence to us in our profes- 
sional intercourse with the animal kingdom, that the pages 
of the Veterinarian will at all times be open to, and 
ourselves be happy to receive, the accounts of the proceedings 
of the epizootic department of the Epidemiological Society. 
And further, we do hope and trust, for the honour and benefit 
of veterinary science, that the members of our profession 
will, on this occasion, one and all, put their best foot foremost 
in administering to the culture of a branch of medical science 
