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Surgery by Drs. Bradbury and Timothy Holmes. Throughout the 
meeting the good people of Cambridge exercised the most genial hospi¬ 
tality, and succeeded in making this one of the most successful meetings 
ever held. The soirees, garden parties, and conversaziones were largely 
attended and much appreciated after the severer work of the day was 
finished. 
The colleges and most excellent museums and curious old churches 
were thrown open to the visitors, and every convenience was afforded to 
facilitate the working of the officers of the Association. At the public 
dinner in the hall of Trinity College about 370 members and visitors sat 
down, and the subsequent speeches were interesting, though somewhat 
numerous, and finally, on the Saturday, those members who could make 
time joined in the excursions to Ely, Peterborough, and Audley End, 
the latter being so arranged that those who wished could perform a 
pilgrimage to the tomb of Harvey. This large and successful meeting 
of the British Medical Association in the town of the largest of our 
Universities has a special significance in connection with the recent 
successful efforts, mainly of Dr. Humphrey, to promote the study of 
medicine at Cambridge. 
CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
At an ordinary meeting of this Society, held at No. 10, Ked Lion 
Square, W.C., on July 15th, in the absence of the President, Mr J. 
Gerrrad took the chair. 
Mr. G. A. Banham exhibited a specimen with vegetated growths on the 
valves and in the aorta, supposed to arise from carditis, the surface 
becoming roughened, and having blood on the roughened surface. The 
animal had diarrhoea before death. The history ot‘ the case would pro¬ 
bably be given by Mr. Shipley, of Yarmouth, and appear in the 
Veterinary Journals. The animal died from diarrhoea associated with 
ascites, which might have been caused by congestion. 
The Chairman introduced a specimen consisting of a portion of the 
spinal cord of a cow that was killed while labouring under the disease 
known as parturient apoplexy, which he thought might be interesting 
to the Fellows, as showing the true apoplectic nature of that disease. 
The part exhibited was the enlarged portion in the lower cervical and 
commencement of the dorsal regions, where the brachial plexus is given 
off. The membranes were intact when taken out, but on being cut into 
a large clot was found along the whole length of the specimen, about 
nine inches. It had been in spirits for two months, but the clot was 
still easily seen. He said he had made a number of post-mortems of 
this disease lately, and his conviction was strengthened that, in all bad 
cases, not only serous effusion but blood-clot was to be found, showing 
the fatal character of the disease and the hopelessness of any system of 
treatment. In some cases killed he had failed to find distinct lesions, 
and was frequently puzzled to account for it. He thought that post¬ 
mortem contraction of the arteries in slight cases, killed before effusion 
went so far as in this case, might account for the absence of visible 
lesions. 
In reply to Mr. Samson, the Chairman said he had bled in nearly all 
stages of the disease, and did not think it was of much use in any. In the 
early stage he had frequently found it excite them more and make them 
