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EDITORIAL. 
ILLNESS AND RECOVERY OF DR. FLEMING. 
The Veterinary Journal of October, which excited our appre¬ 
hensions with the painful intelligence of Dr. Fleming’s illness, 
brings also an antidote to our anxiety in the gratifying announce¬ 
ment of his recovery. The veterinary profession at large will re¬ 
joice over the latter statement, and will join us in tendering to 
the doctor our hearty congratulations, with our sincere wishes for 
his complete restoration to a degree of health and vigor which 
shall insure a long continuance of the services he is so amply 
qualified to render to the public, and the honor his career is 
destined to reflect upon the cause of veterinary medicine. 
A CORRECTION. 
There appeared in the October number of the Journal of 
Comparative Medicine amongst the correspondence, a letter at¬ 
tacking our veracity in relation to the action that took place last 
March between the American and Columbia Veterinary Colleges. 
We intend to answer it, and to lay before the public and pro¬ 
fession the facts as they exist, but the pressure resulting from 
more important matters has obliged us to postpone our reply un¬ 
til our next issue. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE.—HOSPITAL RECORDS. 
AMYLOID DEGENERATION OF THE LIVER—SOFTENING OF MUS¬ 
CULAR COAT OF THE INTESTINES—COLICS-DEATH. 
By J. E. Ryder, D.V.S., House Surgeon. 
On the 29th of May I was called to examine a horse which 
had been taken ill on returning from a drive. He was a gelding) 
six years of age, and was found to be suffering with spasmodic 
colic. I gave him a seven drachms ball of chloral, which relieved 
him in a short time. He. passed a quiet night, and was found 
the next morning apparently well and eating his bedding. Two 
days later he was driven about five miles, in the morning, and in 
