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THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE. 
In addition to my very irregular replies to your questions, 
probably the following may not be considered superfluous or unne- 
cessary information from my case-book. 
EPIZOOTIC DISEASES. 
No. 
Bled. 
Cows. 
Oxen. 
Sturks 
Deaths 
Killed. 
. 1 
( 1 
inflamed feet 
February 
,. 72 
42 
70 
— 
2 
4 - 
U 
exhaustion 
March 
,. 114 
72 
114 
— 
— 
l 
ascites 
April 
.. 72 
54 
46 
26 
— 
1 
ascites 
May 
.. 57 
27 
47 
— 
10 
2 
bronchitis 
June 
.. 76 
10 
50 
19 
7 
— 
July 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
August 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
f 2 
hrnnrhitis 
September..., 
,. 192 
28 
167 
4 
21 
3 
1 
exhaustion 
October 
.. 289 
17 
207 
51 
31 
— 
November. ... 
.. 41 
2 
27 
6 
8 
3 
bronchitis 
December..,., 
2 
— 
2 
— 
— 
— 
Total 915 
252 
730 
106 
79 
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC 
AMONG CATTLE. 
By Mr. GEORGE Holmes, V.S. Thirsk, Yorkshire. 
Dear Sir, — Having duly received your circular, it is with no 
small degree of pleasure that I now transmit you my mite of pro- 
fessional practice and observation respecting the present prevailing 
epidemic. In the first place, however, I do most sincerely hope, 
that the steps taken in requesting the general and individual 
opinions of the profession upon this very important subject will 
elicit such an amount of useful information as may possibly ulti- 
mately tend to satisfactory results, whereby not only the profession, 
but also at the same time the country in general, may be consider- 
ably bene fitted. 
My being situated in a thickly inhabited breeding and grazing 
district has afforded me abundant opportunity of observing the 
disease under a great variety of attendant circumstances, in all 
their various stages of progress. 
The first time that the epidemic made its appearance in this 
immediate neighbourhood was about the middle of last June, when 
it manifested itself among two or three herds, and was, to the best 
of my belief, confined to them alone. 
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