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form a very important and utterly neglected subject of inquiry. 
Mr. Percivall has, in the present number, ventured to trace the 
character and proper treatment of the disease in the form under 
which it occurred in his practice. If other surgeons would fa¬ 
vour the public with the result of their experience, we might 
obtain a valuable history of these periodical complaints, and 
their connexion with certain varieties of atmospheric influence, 
and certain peculiarities of soil and country, and thus gradually 
arrive at a more scientific and successful mode of treating them. 
We invite the attention of our friends to this; and we thank 
Mr. Meyer for his valuable account of the late epidemic among 
cattle; it acquires peculiar interest in connexion with that epi¬ 
demic or contagious malady which has carried off* so many hu¬ 
man beings. 
Affections of the mucous membrane of the intestinal canal 
have lately been almost unprecedentedly frequent and fatal among 
dogs ; and there has been a peculiarity in the character and co¬ 
piousness of the bloody discharge, and rapid prostration of 
strength, and speedy death, to which our experience supplies us 
with no parallel. 
The annual open dinner of the Veterinary Club will take 
place on Thursday, May the 10th. No letters or cards of invi¬ 
tation will be issued; but the members of the club will be most 
happy to see any of their professional brethren who will send a 
letter or notice to the secretary, at the King's Arms Tavern, 
Bridge Street, Westminster (at which, and at half past five o’clock, 
precisely, the dinner will be held), on or before the 8th of May, 
signifying their intention to be present. It will be pleasant and 
useful to draw yet closer the bands of union between the mem¬ 
bers of a profession, widely scattered, and hitherto too discordant. 
