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THE EDITOR’S REMARKS. 
Mr. Wallis gives an excellent account of the Epidemic — its 
nature, symptoms, and mode of treatment; and he touches briefly 
and admirably on the question of divulging to the jiublic, under 
the present circumstances, the whole course to be pursued in the 
management of it. He says — and we cannot do better than give 
his own words, for they contain the very pith and marrow of the 
subject — “ I have not a word to say against those who have 
written for the public; but, on the contrary, I think that they have 
done right, inasmuch as they have thereby contributed to the ad- 
vancement of science and the profession. They deserve and have 
my thanks: but still I am of opinion, that it would not be right or 
honest towards ourselves to place the knowledge we have acquired 
by an early and expensive education in the hands of those on 
whom we depend for support, and who would naturally avail them- 
selves of such liberality to our exclusion.” 
It, however, so happened that, at an early period after the ap- 
pearance of the Epidemic, and the mortality that followed it, various 
letters were sent to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, by 
members residing in various parts of the country, complaining of 
the losses which they sustained, and requesting advice as to the 
course which they were to pursue. These letters were referred to 
the Professor of the Veterinary College, and he supplies the So- 
ciety with a long and complicated account of the malady, and the 
course to be pursued, and this is sent to every member. 
What was the consequence of this ? The veterinary surgeon 
was no more thought of. A kind of disseverment took place be- 
tween him and his old employers, which for many a year will 
leave its injurious effects. The bailiff*, and the farmer, and the 
gentleman began to doctor for themselves. In milder cases, the 
animals got well — in others, and they were not a few, these persons 
puzzled and confounded themselves with regard to the indications 
of bleeding, and purging, and feeding ; and many an animal was 
lost whose life ought not for a moment to have been endangered, 
and the mortality was far, far greater than it otherwise would have 
been. The Editor has at the present moment before him several 
letters from practitioners in different parts of the country, who 
speak feelingly and strongly on this point. Mr. Lepper traces no 
fewer than nine deaths to these causes. It was the natural course 
