212 ON THE EPIZOOTIC DISEASES OF CATTLE &c. 
duction into the colleges might be as much higher as should be 
deemed most proper. Into the faculty would merge the Com- 
pany of Apothecaries, first restoring the trade in drugs to the 
chemists, to whom it justly belonged, the profession being re- 
munerated by a just honorarium, the chemist neither prescrib- 
ing nor charging otherwise than for medicines properly com- 
pounded. The Society of Apothecaries had deserved well of the 
profession. May it become the nucleus of the faculty of medicine ! 
Again, calling attention to his “ scheme,” he would conclude 
by cordially recommending the resolutions placed in his hands, 
having, as he believed, sketched the plan of medical reform that 
was most likely to be at once efficient and generally acceptable, 
in consonance with these resolutions, and pointed out the only 
way in which their objects could be speedily attained ; viz. by a 
prompt and simultaneous movement of the general practitioners 
throughout the kingdom. 
Lancet, 19^ November, 1842. 
ON THE LATE EPIZOOTIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, 
SHEEP, AND SWINE. 
By W. Youatt. 
[Continued from page 144.] 
Three of our correspondents have, during the last month, 
kindly hinted at an improvement on our history of the epizootic 
diseases of cattle, sheep, and swine. They say that there was far 
more connexion between the epidemics of 1840-1 and 1842-3 
than was suspected at the time, or even now believed. 
Mr. Holmes, of Thirsk, takes this up in a most satisfactory 
way. As the number of our readers is rapidly increasing, and 
an understanding and comparison of the two epidemics is an 
object of the greatest importance, we shall now start from this 
part of Yorkshire; and hereafter, with regard toother communi- 
cations, endeavour to combine the accounts that we receive, or 
satisfy ourselves with regard to the points of difference. Our 
friends, who have already given us a history of the first epidemic, 
would add materially to our obligation by this comparison. 
The epidemic first made its appearance in the neighbourhood 
of Thirsk about the middle of June 1840, when it manifested 
itself among two or three herds, and seemed to be confined to 
them. The disease was accompanied by a slight frothing at the 
mouth, but there was no breaking out at the feet. On the 18th 
of July, at Sopcliffe, distant about five miles, the contagion was 
