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in the country as green copperas) dissolved in a pint of warm wa¬ 
ter, twice a-day. As the disease rapidly changes in its character, 
it will be highly necessary to apply the remedies in the earliest 
possible stage of the disorder. 
“ N.B. Sheep. —The foregoing treatment applies to sheep, 
taking into consideration the local circumstances under which they 
are placed, care being taken that the doses are moderate and suit¬ 
able to sheep. 
In addition to these remedies of Professor Sewell, the com¬ 
mittee would strongly recommend the disordered animals to be 
kept apart from the other stock, as there is much doubt whether 
the disease does not partake both of an epidemic and infectious 
character.” 
[We mean not to say one word for or against the treatment recom¬ 
mended in this circular, which has doubtless found its way to 
most of our readers, and to a very great number of agriculturists. 
There are circumstances connected with the welfare of our art 
of immediate and pressing moment, and which enjoin on us the 
strictest silence; but we may be permitted to say to the English 
Agricultural Society, that we think they have acted a little 
hastily, and not a little injuriously, to the farmer, while they have 
done some wrong to the veterinary practitioner. 
It was natural for them to be exceedingly anxious with regard 
to the unusual prevalence of the epidemic which has for several 
months appeared among cattle, and especially milch cows; to 
which so many have fallen victims, and which is still destroying 
its thousands:—it was natural that they should apply to the 
quarter whence they could derive the most correct knowledge of 
the nature, cause, symptoms, complications, general treatment, 
and probable result of such a disease:—it was natural to diffuse 
this knowledge where it would be understood, rightly appreciated, 
and useful: but was it prudent to send to every member of the 
Society—and through the medium of the press it has ere this 
found its way to every farmer, and to every menial—an account 
of a malady which does not always commence in the same 
formbut in some animals it commences in the feet, in others 
in the mouth, ^ in others in the legs, and in some is accompanied 
by blisters of the tongue and lips ?” These are diseases different 
in their origin, different in their treatment, and different in the 
organs to which they belong ] Is there no danger of error ?—no 
danger of such people becoming charlatans and quacks, and, in 
not a few instances, aggravating the evil which they attempt to. 
cure 1 
The Professor very properly states, that this epidemic ''par¬ 
taken both of inflammatory action and of low fever k How is the 
