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how to shoe them. The “ basis for the repose of the profession’' 
has yet to be found ; and 1 cannot but think that the discussion 
carried on in the pages of your Journal during the last twelve 
months is a step in the right direction to attain so desirable an end. 
The subject deserves all the consideration that can be bestowed on 
it ; and, 1 hope, will not be allowed to drop until it has received its 
thorough solution, or until some approximation to unity of opinion 
among the profession be arrived at. 
I am, Sir, 
Your’s, &c. 
To the Editor of The Veterinarian. 
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
38, Berners Street, July 1850. 
Dear Sir, — Below is a reprint of a letter from the Lancet of 
the 1st December. May I request your favourable consideration of 
the same ; and have the pleasure of enrolling you amongst those 
who approve of the cause I 
I have the honour to be, dear Sir, 
Your’s faithfully, 
J. H. Tucker, 
Hon. Sec. pro tem. 
Remarks on the proposed New Society for the Investigation of 
Cholera and other Epidemic Diseases. 
To the Editor of “ The Lancet.” 
Sir, — I BEG to acquaint you and your readers, that, in order to 
carry out the views of a correspondent in your Journal for Sept. 
15th, 1849, p. 301, with respect to the formation of a new medical 
society, to take into consideration a systematic investigation of epi- 
demic diseases, that a few medical men formed themselves into a 
committee, have occasionally held meetings on the subject, and, 
after due consideration, have come to the conclusion that such a 
society is greatly needed, nay, almost absolutely demanded. 
Every one who has read the medical journals up to the present 
day, and noticed the difference of opinion that still exists as to the 
