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is many of the subjects will embrace questions of sanitary 
economy, which are of the greatest moment to the profession 
n America of to-day. Educational problems will undoubtedly 
rngage their deliberate consideration; and as so much good 
s flowing from their agitation of this question for the past few 
rears, every member is alive to its necessity and exhilarating 
nfluences. 
Every American veterinarian who can should attend; 
hose who are not members should without delay connect 
hemselves with it. Those from the East are insured an 
especially pleasant trip, as it is proposed to have a special car 
it the disposal of the Eastern party, which will leave Phila- 
lelphia about Sept. 7th, and special transportation rates have 
oeen arranged with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which 
nsures the best of service. 
Massachusetts Laws.— Through the courtesy of Prof. 
Dsgood, of Harvard University, who is chairman of the Cat- 
le Commission of Massachusetts, we have received the laws 
or 1895, relating to the control of contagious animal diseases 
n that State. The completeness of the regulations certainly 
)ids fair for the systematic examination and control of those 
diseases in every part of the commonwealth. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
VETERINARY OPHTHALMOLOGY. 
Specially Written for the American Veterinary Review by J. A. Couture, P. S., 
Quebec. 
FIRST CASE. 
THE SO-CALLED PERIODIC OPHTHALMIA OF THE HORSE—RE¬ 
PEATED ATTACKS .OF IRITIS, CAUSING INTERNAL OPHTHALMIA, 
COMPLICATED BY CATARACTS, ATROPHY OF THE RETINA, DE¬ 
POSITS IN THE VITREOUS BODY. 
History .—The patient is a three-quarter bred mare, owned 
3 y Capt. Turner, of Queen’s Own Hussars, at Quebec. She 
