THE PREVAILING EPIDEMIC. 
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The following list of queries has been sent by the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society of England to each of its members : it is here in- 
serted that it may spread more widely. Some of the members of 
the society have endeavoured to prevail on those who do not be- 
long to them to send a reply to these queries. When the time is 
so near that it will be the fault of both parties if an honourable 
coalition does not take place between them, the Editor would urge 
his brethren and friends to respond to the call. He still supplicates 
a continuance of those communications, so important, which he has 
received, respecting the nature, source, effects and medical treat- 
ment, of this disease. If life is spared to him, they shall become 
the ground-work of an attempted history of the present and other 
epidemics; and therefore he wishes the communications to him to 
be of a professional character. The queries here appended are 
very important, but of a more general nature. We are all, how- 
ever, in search of truth, and it matters not in what honourable 
way it may reach us. 
Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
The President and Council having adopted the subjoined Queries, 
drawn up at their request by the Veterinary Committee, in concert 
with Professor Sewell, and resolved that a copy should be trans- 
mitted to each Member of the Society, for the purpose of obtaining 
an accurate statement of facts on the nature of the prevailing Epi- 
demic among Cattle and other stock, the Secretary is directed to 
beg the favour of a reply to any of these Queries by the 1st of 
March ; and to signify on the part of the Council, that gentlemen 
who will be kind enough to furnish the Society with such replies, 
are particularly requested not to state any thing that has not come 
under their own actual observation. 
James Hudson, Secretary . 
5, Cavendish Square, Feb. 3, 1841. 
Queries for Information on the Nature of the prevail- 
ing Epidemic among Cattle and other Stock. 
1. Has the Epidemic appeared among your stock ] 
2. If not, has it prevailed in your neighbourhood, and how near * 
your own farm 1 
