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EDITORIAL. 
An examination showed me that the os uteri was at the lowest 
point of this large red protrusion. The os was very rigid. 1 
could not even get one finger into it. I ordered a narrow stall 
built to raise the hind parts of the cow some eighteen inches higher 
than the forward parts. The tumor was bathed at first with warm, 
and afterwards with cold water. Ordered tinct. opium in one 
ounce doses every six hours, and then left her, promising to call the 
following morning. I found on my second visit that the protru¬ 
sion had entirely receded. The os was easily dilated with ung. 
belladonna. A dead fce.tus was found with its abdomen enor¬ 
mously distended with gas, and in such a state of decomposition 
that I readily ruptured the abdominal walls with my fingers. 
After the gas was released there was no futlier trouble in delivery. 
I removed the placenta and sponged the uterus with carbolized 
warm water. In a few days the mucous membrane lining the 
vagina sloughed and came away in large patches. I dressed the 
parts with carbolized oil, and the cow made a good recovery. I 
was very careful at the time and used plenty of carbolized oil on 
my hands and arms, did not have a wound of any kind on them, 
but nevertheless I contracted a severe case of blood-poisoning. 
Have several scars on my right arm by which to remember that 
case. 
EDITORIAL, 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDI¬ 
CAL ASSOCIATION. 
In a few days more the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association will enter upon the twenty-second year of its exist¬ 
ence. On this occasion it is proposed to celebrate the lapse of its 
majority by changing the place of meeting—which, indeed, has 
become a necessary measure and a natural consequence, not only 
of the growth of the Association itself, but also of that of the pro¬ 
fession at large. 
At the organization of the Association, which took place in 
the old Astor House, New York city, and where the constitution 
and by-laws were signed, the names placed on record for the for 
