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swallow, by doing away with the fear of suffocation ? Direct 
extirpation, could it have been carried out, would have been the 
most certain method of cure, but the possibility of doing it in 
this case is problematical. 
“ Could this tumour have been the sequel of strangles, an 
attack of which the horse suffered from four years ago 
Mr. Alexander Robinson spoke at length on tubercle, and asked 
if it is in its most simple form deleterious to meat used for 
human food. He is of opinion that simple miliary deposit cannot 
be injurious to the flesh, but in phthisis pulmonalis he would 
regard the flesh as unfit for human food. He also brought before 
the meeting a very interesting case of tubercle affecting the 
tongue. 
Professor Fadie said it is a very curious thing that animals 
thrive while labouring under tuberculosis; in most animals the 
mucous membranes become affected, whereas in cattle the deposit 
principally attacks the serous membranes, such as the pleura and 
peritoneum, &c. In a number of pigs which Professor Gamgee 
and he had examined, there were deposits on the spleen. 
Mr. Fottie said, when tumours are produced, this brings on 
phthisis pulmonalis and other diseases of the same nature. This 
diathesis, in my opinion, is not so prevalent in the bovine 
species. 
Professor Walley believes tuberculosis to be similar to con¬ 
sumption, and that the diathesis exists in children, and that 
plethoric men and women have died of it while apparently in 
good health. 
The meeting returned thanks to Professor Walley for his very 
interesting paper. James Anderson, 
Hon. Sec. 
THE MIDLAND COUNTIES VETERINARY 
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The twenty-third meeting of the Midland Counties Veterinary 
Medical Association was held at the Hen and Chickens Hotel, 
Birmingham, on Tuesday, Nov. 26th; the President, P. Blakeway, 
Esq., Stourbridge, in the chair. There were also present— 
S. Gamgee, Esq., Birmingham; G. Pleming, Esq., Chatham; 
Greaves, Manchester; A. B. Proctor, Coventry; Carter, Whit¬ 
church; Litt, Shrewsbury; Perrens, Worcester; Price and 
Stanly, Birmingham; R. Pritchard, H. D. Pritchard, and Cart-. 
