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of the Council to refer the matter to the Committee that had already 
been appointed in connection with the votes of scrutineers. 
This was agreed to. 
To suit the convenience of members from a distance it was resolved, 
on the motion of Mr. BlaJceway , seconded by Mr. Dray , that the time of 
the Council meetings should in future be 3 o’clock instead of 4. 
The Council then adjourned. 
CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
At an ordinary meeting of this Society, held at. No. 10, Red Lion 
Square, W.C., on June 3rd, in the absence of the President, Professor 
Axe took the chair. 
The Chairman introduced a specimen, together with a sketch made 
during the process of bone production, more especially to show the 
very perfect condition the limb exhibited, inasmuch as it appeared 
a very material improvement upon the pathological changes which had 
previously ensued upon an accident relating to it. In Mr. Olver’s 
(Tamworth) communication he said: “In October, 1878, being in 
attendance on some horses at a farm, I was asked to look at a yearling 
heifer that had fractured its near hind leg a fortnight previously. The 
owner of the animal had attempted to set it (but in an unsatisfactory 
manner) by encasing it within four straight boards, and wrapping the 
whole with bandages saturated in tar. The weight of the appliances 
in themselves scarcely permitted the animal to move, and it was very 
emaciated and suffering great pain. The owner expressed a wish to 
have everything done that was possible. I removed the so-called 
splints and bandages, dressed the wound at the front of the fetlock, 
extending up the metatarsal bone, with carbolic acid, covering it with 
a plaster-of-Paris bandage. Observed a change on October 25th, when 
I again applied a plaster bandage higher up the front, leaving an open¬ 
ing for discharges, and dressed the wound and passage with carbolised 
acid, in the proportions of one part to seven, regularly applied night and 
morning, and ordered the animal to be kept quiet and well fed. On 
November 29th I took off the bandage, when the whole lower third of 
the metatarsal bone came away, which I kept and sent to Professor 
Axe. At that time I applied another bandage on the previous one to 
strengthen the leg.” 
The Chairman said he asked to be allowed the leg for dissection when¬ 
ever the animal was slaughtered, which was just lately, when he received 
the piece of bone, and heard from Mr. Olver that she had made a capital 
carcase, and had grazed in the fields last summer, but was a little lame. 
Mr. Olver had not examined the leg, and was curious to know how 
nature had filled up the cavity. He concurred with Mr. Olver in be¬ 
lieving that, so far as the ox tribe was concerned, the specimen appeared 
unique; the portion of the leg was perfectly straight; there was no 
deformity in connection therewith. He received the specimen with a 
portion of the plaster-of-Paris bandage upon it. He had made a careful 
examination of the tendons and ligaments; they were in their natural 
position, and seemed fused together by inflammatory growth. In 
reference to the inferior part of the metatarsal-bone, it was perfectly rein¬ 
stated, and with the very slightest possible degree of deformity, which 
only appeared in a slight bulging, due to original decay. Thought the 
specimen exceedingly interesting, especially as Mr. Olver had detailed 
