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by the owners of cattle in the United States. May we hope to 
receive it, sir] Should, fortunately, any suggestion of yours be 
the means of arresting the evil, I need not say how great would 
be the benefit which you would confer on our whole people. Your 
answer to this will, unless objected to by you, be made public. 
I am, &c. 
[We should indeed be thankful if, in the course of the first or 
second week in November, any of our coriespondents will throw 
some light on this interesting, fearful malady. Their kindness 
shall be promptly acknowledged. We think that we have 
witnessed something like it : our friends may, perhaps, be in 
possession of more important information. — Ed.] 
A CASE OF EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN CATTLE— DIVISION 
OF THE POSTERIOR MESIAN ARTERY, AND ULTI- 
MATE UNION OF THE DIVIDED PARTS. 
By Professor Dick and Mr. Brother ton. 
(Mr. Brotherton to Professor Dick.) 
Knowing the interest that you have at all times manifested 
in the welfare and success of those who have been, or still are, in 
the relation of pupils to you, I am the more bold in taking the 
liberty of addressing a letter to you. 
I am still residing with and assisting Mr. Brining, who, I am 
glad to inform you, has had great additions to his practice, under 
the recommendation of the Highland and Agricultural Society of 
Scotland, whose influence is not confined to the locality which is 
the more immediate seat of its operations, but is even felt here, 
many of the great agriculturists in this county entrusting the 
management of their farms to our countrymen. 
Our practice here abounds in variety, and among horned cattle 
is rather extensive ; and although it is emphatically dirty and labo- 
rious work, still it is, on many accounts, interesting, and, what 
would by some be considered better than all, lucrative. 
The epidemic that has been prevalent here is one of a differ- 
ent and not so serious a character as that by which other parts 
of Britain have been visited. Its seat, in the commencement, has 
been entirely local, characterized by a puffy dwelling in one or 
more of the extremities, and most developed in the heels ; slowly 
and gradually extending upwards, and having a pustular erup- 
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