202 CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY, 
Colonel Kingscote most thoroughly agreed with the recommen¬ 
dation of the Veterinary Committee, and would be extremely 
sorry if the Council did not adopt it. The present outbreak of 
disease was a danger that had been anticipated for some time. 
There was an honorary member of the Society in the room—Mr. 
Fleming—who had studied the question very deeply. Mr. 
Fleming pointed out to him some months ago that this disease of 
pleuro-pneumonia had been for years past raging in America, and 
the great danger we should sustain in allowing animals to come 
into this country without being slaughtered at the port of land¬ 
ing. The Act of Parliament declared that when there is disease 
in any country, that country should be scheduled, and as they 
were naturally alarmed by this outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia, 
they asked the Government to prevent, not American meat, but 
this disease from coming in. 
The report was then adopted. 
CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
The ordinary meeting was held on Friday, January 17th, 
1879, the President in the chair. 
The Secretary exhibited a calculus, the chief features being a 
combination of the whole form of calculus, viz., oat-hair, triple 
phosphate, and crystalline. The subject was an aged job horse, 
who passed no faeces during some six weeks other than what he 
had removed. The existence of a calculus was assumed, but could 
not be detected. On death a rupture was found which reached 
to the commencement of the rectum. He also showed a kitten 
having a double body and right legs. He also named a case 
where he had successfully removed the elongated part of a tooth 
on one side and chipped away eleven pieces from another on the 
other side of the mouth by the aid of Thompson’s shears. He 
did not cast the horse. 
The President next referred to his experiments for determin¬ 
ing the nature of the skin epizootic, and stated that since then 
an eruption very similar to the disease had developed in the 
inoculated horse, generally affecting the thighs as well as the 
selected part. And that in another case a contaminated rug had 
produced no positive result; in another,believing heat and moisture 
essential, he had submitted an animal to exertion while clothed 
with a contaminated rug. This horse became the subject of the 
disease. He had set himself to discover whether there were 
parasites in the disease, and without speaking too positively 
it might be said that he had formed an opinion of its being due 
to a vegetable parasite. 
Mr. Hill (a visitor) had had a number of cases in his district, 
