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CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
Council based upon it, will not only prevent to a great extent 
those losses which English farmers have hitherto suffered from 
the outbreaks of contagious diseases amongst their flocks and 
herds, but also enable them to increase their stock profitably, on 
account of the diminished risk which breeding on an extended 
scale will henceforth entail. 
The experiments upon pleuro-pneumonia have been continued 
during the greater part of the year at the Brown Institution, 
under the superintendence of Dr. Burdon-Sanderson, whose com 
plete report will appear in the next number of the Journal. Very 
valuable indications have been obtained, but unfortunately one of 
the provisions of the new Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 
prevents the further continuance of these investigations. With 
the sanction of the Council, Dr. Burdon-Sanderson has commenced 
a series of researches into such diseases as splenic apoplexy and 
quarter-evil, the nature and causes of which are at present more 
or less obscure. 
Four candidates have entered to compete for the society's 
medals and prizes offered to veterinary surgeons of not more 
than fifteen months’ standing, for proficiency in cattle pathology, 
and the examination will be held at the Royal College of Veteri¬ 
nary Surgeons in the course of the ensuing month. 
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CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
Professor Axe in the chair. November 7th, 1878. 
The Secretary read the minutes of the last meeting, which 
were approved and signed. The secretary then exhibited the 
tooth of a horse referred to at the last meeting. 
Professor Axe said, if there were no other specimens to be 
exhibited, or cases to be recorded, he would ask their attention 
while he complied with a request made to him by the secretary, 
and introduce the subject for the evening. In the absence of 
other matter he congratulated himself on having for some time 
past devoted his attention to a subject which he thought was of 
the highest interest to them. He alluded to that affection of the 
skin which had prevailed to a very great extent among horses, 
both in the metropolis and in numerous provincial towns, and 
which had doubtless come under the experience of all of them 
to a greater or less extent. His object in bringing the matter 
before them was, firstly, to relate his observations with regard to 
the affection; and secondly, to ask for the experience of all who 
were able to throw light on the pathology of the malady. During 
the past three or four months the disease in question had pre- 
