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5. When did the disease first appear ! 
6. What number of your cattle, sheep, or pigs, are now affected ! 
7. How many have died or been destroyed! 
8. What time has usually elapsed between the first indications 
of illness and the death of the animal! 
9. What was the state of the weather previous to and at the 
time the disease was first observed! 
10. Did the malady first shew itself among the breeding or 
fatting cattle, sheep, or pigs! 
11. What is their age and condition as to fatness! 
12. Can the outbreak be assigned to contagion or infection! 
If not, what do you believe to be its probable cause! 
13. Is a similar disease prevalent in the neighbourhood! 
14. What are the symptoms shewn by the animals, and what 
is your opinion, so far as you are able to form one, of the nature of 
the malady! 
15. Has amelioration been attempted by change of situation or 
management! alteration in the quantity or quality of the food! by 
medical treatment, or any other means! 
16. What effects have followed any efforts that may have been 
made to stay the progress of the malady! 
17. Are you willing to pay the travelling expenses of the in¬ 
spector, should the committee decide on sending him down! 
Have the kindness to add any other information that you think 
desirable, and return this list without delay to the Secretary, 
James Hudson, Esq., 12, Hanover-square, London. 
THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1849. 
Nequid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
Mr. Boughton’s case of “ Double Metastasis” is rare and in¬ 
teresting, from its exhibiting a step beyond what translation of 
disease ordinarily takes. We can find on record metastasis of in¬ 
flammatory action from lungs to feet, and from bowels to feet; but 
we can hardly find the shifting occurring a second time, as it did 
in the instance before us. It is usual to ascribe laminitis, the 
sequel or translation of inflammation within the thorax, to the cir¬ 
cumstance of the horse standing so long, whereby his laminae, from 
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