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not liable to take disease even if exposed. Till the nature of the 
disease was decided it was like working in the dark. The non¬ 
reception of disease by those exposed to it would almost point 
out that they had already had it. 
Professor Axe , who now attended, regretted an engagement 
had delayed him, said it would be idle for them to discuss the 
parasitic or contagious theory unless they had some data to go 
by. He wished now simply to relate the results of some minor 
experiments so far as they had gone. He had applied to an 
animal's skin a quantity of matter removed from an affected 
horse, the hair being previously clipped from the withers, and the 
scab matter was rubbed sharply into the surface. In the course 
of clipping the hair the skin had been slightly irritated by the 
scissors, and an exudation followed, but as yet no eruption had 
appeared similar to that in the disease, only a serous exudation. 
A rug transferred from a diseased to a healthy animal becoming 
diseased would suggest its contagiousness, but the same rug had 
not given it to another healthy animal. He had also examined the 
purulent matter without finding any parasitic organisms, still it 
might be determined to be parasitic and contagious after further 
research. 
Mr. Hunting wished to direct Professor Axe's attention to a 
statement made earlier in the evening respecting immunity from 
attack, viz. that in, say a stud of twenty, nine might be exempt 
(as he knew had been the case), it was suggested that they might 
a 1 ready have suffered. But he could hardly understand immunity, 
if it were parasitic, on such a ground. Another feature was a con¬ 
siderable amount of fever and excitement when the pustular 
condition was reached. In exanthemata, as seen in cow-pox, that 
was about the first symptom. 
The discussion then closed. Mr. Albert R. Charles w r as elected 
a Bellow, and Messrs Chas. Sheather, of Marylebone, and Thos. 
Chesterman, of Whitechapel, were proposed, and the meeting 
adjourned. 
Present fifteen Fellow's and two visitors. 
James Rowe, 
Hon. Sec. 
LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
The usual quarterly meeting of this Association was held at 
the Medical Institute, Hope Street, on Friday, November 15th, 
1878. William Whittle, Esq., President, in the chair. 
