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change ; the vesicles remain the same, and the fibres remain 
unchanged; but, as I said, the consistence is diminished; 
instead of being firm, the tissue of the organ has become soft 
and pulpy, and in some cases almost diffluent, and of the 
consistence of cream. 
“ The diseased blood-vessels lie in the midst of this pulpy 
mass for some time without undergoing any further change, 
but, sooner or later, under some mental emotion, or during 
some increased hearths action, depending either upon mental 
emotion, upon derangement of the digestive organs, some 
bodily exertion, or increased mental effort of any kind, the 
blood is sent with undue force or in undue quantity into the 
vessels, and in consequence the vascular canals in the pulpy 
portion of the cerebral tissue being deprived of their usual 
support give way, and blood is effused into the softened part 
of the brain, which it breaks up, and the more readily in con¬ 
sequence of already diminished consistence.” (Braithwaite’s 
4 Retrospect of Medicine/ vol. xxxi, 1855, p. 74.) 
I cannot conclude these remarks without referring to the 
report of a valuable paper on f Tumours in the Brain/ read 
before the Imperial and Central Society of Veterinary Medi¬ 
cine in Paris, by M. Leblanc, and published in the Veterinarian, 
p. 162, for March, 1855, a perusal of which will not be 
without interest. 
A short discussion followed the reading of the paper, and a 
vote of thanks proposed to the President and authors, re¬ 
spectively, was cordially agreed to. 
Copies of the papers, with an abridgement of the trans¬ 
actions of the meeting, were ordered to be forwarded for pub¬ 
lication in the Veterinarian and Edinburgh Veterinary Revieiv . 
A sub-committce, consisting of Messrs. Bunting, Scott, 
Pairbairn, Armatage, Peele, and Thompson, w&s directed to 
meet on Saturday, the 14th of May, at four o’clock, to arrange 
business, and appoint a day for the quarterly meeting in 
July- 
Practitioners desirous of joining the association should 
communicate with the Hon. Sec. 
(Signed) George Armatage. 
