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the alarm occasioned. In Kilburn many now would not use milk, and 
much injury had been done to the dairymen. It appeared to be 
the opinion of the medical men that the disease was really due to the 
sewers which were now being opened out and repaired. 
Mr. Price exhibited a portion of the liver and lungs of a horse, 
observing they were from a valuable cart mare, five years old, healthy up 
to the time of injuring a fetlock with the shoe. The injured part festered, 
accompanied with a deal of inflammation and sympathetic irritation ; 
finally mortification ensuing, death took place in five days ; a post-mortem 
examinatiou revealed the state of lungs shown. He questioned whether 
there was any such disease before the accident; there were no lung 
disease symptoms shown then; the thermometer registered 105°, and 
there was great swelling of the limbs. 
The President said the lesions were essentially pyaemic, and there were 
evidences of thrombic affection ; and by the plugging of the vessels he 
deemed it phlebitis affecting the veins of the injured limb, and leading on 
to blood infection. 
Mr. Fleming said, with regard to the skin affection lately under discus¬ 
sion, he might state that some three weeks back he received some scab 
crusts from a case, and immediately got a four-year old horse and, 
shaving a portion of skin from the side, blistered the part mildly, applied 
the crusts mixed with water after the chief action had passed off. Three 
days later there was a slight exudation, which soon went off. That 
morning, passing through the stable, he found an eruption on and around 
the parts ; he should watch the animal for a few days. 
The President said this was interesting, the Fellows would remember 
in an inoculated case he had detailed the affection appeared long after the 
experiments. 
Messrs. John Gerrard, of Romford, and George A. Banham, the Brown 
Institution, were balloted for and duly elected, and the meeting adjourned. 
Present, twelve Fellows and four visitors. James Rowe, Hon. Sec. 
At another meeting held May 1st, in the absence of the President, Mr- 
Fleming in the chair, the President related a case of a Blenheim Spaniel 
that on the Thursday previous while playing with a ball of thread swal¬ 
lowed a needle, and some eight inches of thread. The housekeeper 
having accidentally dropped it, and looking for it noticed the end of the 
thread in the dog’s mouth, but the dog bolted it while catching him. 
Friday and Saturday he continually vomited, and on Sunday strained 
violently howling as if in great pain ; he was sent to him; he gave an 
enema, and later on drew the thread and needle (exhibited) from the 
anus. How it could travel the whole length of the intestine he could not 
understand, and was unaware of any record of a similar incident. He 
had several needles in his possession taken from the, roof of the mouth 
and throat of dogs and cats. 
Mr. Streather remembered a case where a boy, swallowing a puff¬ 
ing dart ( i. e. a long needle with a piece of fluff in the eye), by acci¬ 
dentally taking a deep breath, which drew it down into the pharynx 
and stomach. He was ordered to lie on a sofa and eat dry crusts, which 
was carried out for forty-eight hours when the needle passed away with 
the fasces without inconvenience. This needle was some two and three 
quarter inches in length, Mr. Rowe’s was one and a half inch. 
The Chairman thought these cases curious from the fact that it was 
common for mad people to swallow pins and needles, which were rarely 
passed per rectum. In the case of a little girl he had lately heard of, who 
was given to swallowing needles, they passed out at all parts of her body 
