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such associations cannot fail to promote the best interests of 
our profession, and to advance it in the estimation of the 
public. The free intercourse which thus takes place be- 
tween the members of it and the higher division of medical 
science, unrestrained by the formalities of society ; the in- 
quiries instituted as to the different features the same 
disease may present in different animals, and the remedial 
means resorted to for its removal, with the peculiarities of 
action of the various therapeutic agents, all tend to awaken 
thought, to stimulate to further investigation, and to expand 
the mind by the acquirement of fresh knowledge. Moreover, 
the novelties brought forward in the form of morbid specimens, 
or drawings of the effects of disease or unusual alterations of 
structure, are highly interesting, and often lead to conversa- 
tion, and it may be even to difference of opinion, from which 
nothing but good can possibly result, provided those cour- 
tesies be observed which mark the association of men of 
education and scientific attainments. Nor is it among the 
least of the benefits derived from these meetings, that a more 
intimate union of the two professions is thus effected, by 
showing how each may to the other give support, and thus 
both become advantaged. 
NEW PATHOLOGICAL PACTS DISCLOSED BY THE SCALPEL 
IN NUMEROUS POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS OF SYMP- 
TOMATIC TETANUS. 
By James Turner, M.R.C.V.S. 
About eight years since, “ The Maid of Kildare,” a racing 
mare of repute, while passing through London from the 
country, having just won a race, met with the following 
accident: upon leaving the station of the North Western 
Railway, she kicked violently at a cab which was passing at 
a rapid rate, and entangled her hind leg in the wheel. This 
was followed by immediate lameness and intense pain of the 
limb ; she w r as then walked on three legs to Mr. Maynes’ 
Livery Stables, Langham Place. 
Upon my examination of her in the presence of the ow ner, 
I found a deep transverse wound in front of the shin, about 
an inch and a half in length, rather inclining to the outside 
of the leg. The corresponding part of the front of the 
metatarsal bone, tw r o inches below the hock-joint, was 
completely denuded ; and not only w as the periosteum gone, 
