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its details, and whatever may be the means proposed, the test of 
trial should be made before they are discarded. The antiseptic 
treatment of wounds promises well in all those of an extensive 
and aggravated character. Numerous instances can be adduced, 
showing that in comparison with the ordinary method of treatment, 
the aggregate number of chronic cases may be remarkably lessened, 
extreme conditions avoided and lives saved, where now loss and in- 
convenience result. Mr. Armatage concluded by urging attention 
to the principles of antiseptic treatment ; feeling assured from his 
own experience that the subject deserved a much more extended 
trial and investigation than had hitherto been given to it by vete- 
rinary surgeons. Emanating from the Central Veterinary Medical 
Society, it would give rise to a wider field of operation, and like- 
wise secure more definite results than would be likely to occur from 
other means. 
The meeting adjourned, after a vote of thanks to the President 
and Secretary respectively. 
At the next meeting, on January 5th, Mr. Rowe will read a paper 
on “ The Diseases of the Liver of the Horse.” 
MIDLAND COUNTIES VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The seventeenth meeting of this Association was held at “ The 
Bell” Hotel, Leicester, on Monday, November 28th, under the pre- 
sidency of Mr. H. Pyatt, of Nottingham. There were present — • 
Messrs. Garrard ; Baily, sen. ; Cave ; Cowlishaw; Wiggins ; Perrins; 
Hill ; Ison, and the Secretary. 
Letters having been read from various absent members, the 
minutes of the last meeting at Burton-on-Trent were read and con- 
firmed. A motion to confine the meetings of the Association to one 
of three centrally situated towns in the Midland Counties was, owing 
to the smallness of the meeting, and the absence of Mr. King the 
proposer, adjourned to the next meeting, which it was agreed should 
be held at Lichfield, in the month of March, 1871. 
Mr. Sill read the following essay on “ Ilaemo-albuminuria in 
Cattle.” 
Mr. President and Gentlemen, — In bringing the subject of 
this paper before you it is not with the feeling that I am intro- 
ducing anything new to your notice, but with the hope of gaining 
some fresh knowledge from gentlemen whose experience has been 
longer than my own. 
The disease now termed hsemo-albuminuria is not new ; it is 
also far from being an uncommon one. During the time I was in 
Yorkshire it was my lot to see many cases of this malady ; and as there 
did then and still now does exist much difference of opinion amongst 
practitioners as to its nature, cause, and treatment, I have simply put 
forth my feeble efforts to lay before you my own ideas in connection 
with it in exchange for perhaps the more valuable ones of my brother 
