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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Mr. Mayhem moved “ that the amended report be printed, m 
order that the Members of the Council might have the opportunity 
of carefully considering so important a document before it was too 
late to correct any errors that might be found to exist.” 
Mr. Turner concurred in such a motion, and should therefore 
second it. Carried; and the report, as above, ordered to be printed 
for the use of the Members of the Council. 
Mr. Arthur Cherry said, that had the Council finally decided 
on the report that evening, he had intended to have brought forward 
a motion for the purpose of submitting it to competent legal exa¬ 
mination, but should now defer it till the proper time. 
Mr. Mayhem gave notice of two motions, to be considered at 
the next sitting. 
Mr Arthur Cherry agreed in the importance of each of these, 
and at once seconded the notices. 
The Meeting then adjourned. 
THE VETERINARIAN, OCTOBER 1, 1849. 
Nequid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C icero. 
The influenza among horses began to decline with the beginning 
of September, and through the month has so perceptibly become 
diminished that for the last week or two we have heard very 
little about it—at least in the metropolitan districts. Extraordi¬ 
narily prevalent as it has certainly been, we cannot, for our own 
part, complain of its fatality, or assert that, looking at its 
general or most characteristic features, it has appeared to us in any 
novel or malignant form. Some notions seem to have been flying 
about, hinting a comparison, in causation at least, between cholera 
(in the human subject) and influenza (in horses.) It has been 
said, the attacks of the two diseases have proved synchronous. 
During the fatal cholera year—1832—influenza prevailed ; but 
then the latter became very general again in 1836, and again in 
1841-2, not seasons of cholera. And although the two diseases 
happen to prevail once again together at the time we are writing, 
the influenza proved very severe in 1828, a period at which 
cholera had not as yet visited our shores. And the only cases 
