412 WEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
I would go the length of saying that the milk of such animals is injurious. Yet 
who will say that such animals do not find their way into our butchers’ shops ? 
It is a disease that is very prevalent in this district, and I think it calls for 
a stamping-out process in any animal as soon as it manifests itself, for I 
believe it to be contagious. And, not to weary you, should it not be admitted 
that all animals suffering from blood-poisonous disease are unfit for human food? 
Also braxy in sheep and typhoid fever and measles in pigs come under the same 
head. These opinions are not advanced in any dogmatic spirit, but simply 
to excite discussion and to strengthen ourselves to meet these knotty cases 
which must from time to time confront us. In conclusion, I thank you for your 
kind attention, and I trust the homely character of this paper may be of 
some use. I shall be glad to hear an animated expression of opinion and 
find that the subject matter is not under noticed. 
In the discussion which ensued Mr. Freeman made some remarks on 
tuberculosis or calcareous deposits, stating that, in his opinion, the 
deposits were often caused by the nature of the soil upon which the 
animal was grazed. 
Dr. Goldie said that he was pleased to be present upon this occasion. 
He thought that medical officers of health were fully qualified to 
examine and determine as to the condition of the internal organs of 
animals, and whether the flesh of animals was fit for human food. He also 
detailed the different modes of slaughtering animals as practised in this 
country. He also exhibited some specimens of diseased lung tissues, and 
pointed out the different pathological appearances presented. 
The discussion was carried on by Messrs. Peter Walker, Freeman, 
Anderton, and the Secretary. 
Mr. Freeman exhibited a remarkable specimen of osteo-porosis. 
A vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to the essayist, proposed 
by Mr. Naylor , seconded by Mr. Freeman. 
A vote of thanks was also accorded to Dr. Goldie for his able remarks 
upon the subject matter of the essay. 
WEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
{Continuedfromp. 360.) 
Professor M‘Call afterwards offered the following remarks upon stricture 
or hour-glass contraction of the stomach of the horse: 
With stricture of the oesophagus veterinarians hare for long been inti¬ 
mately familiar, as also with various abnormal conditions preventing the 
free passage of food into and out of the stomach; but with the form and 
site of stricture to which I am about to refer it is otherwise, and, indeed, it 
is highly probable that it has to be described for the first time. As it is 
my desire to appropriate the support which this case gives to my ideas upon 
the subject of vomition in the horse, I shall, at the outset, refer to a few of the 
anatomical peculiarities of the oesophagus and stomach of the equine species. 
(Esophagus .—The oesophagus is composed of muscular tissue and mucous 
membrane. The former is arranged in two layers ; the superficial fibres run 
in a longitudinal, the deep in a spiral and circular direction. A little an¬ 
terior to the point where the oesophagus terminates in the stomach, or 
