326 INVITATION TO CATTLE GROWERS’ CONVENTION. 
These symptoms continued to increase until death, which took 
place two months after. At the post-morten the lungs were 
found healthy, but abundant lesions appeared in the abdomen. 
The liver had its normal color and consistency in the right and 
middle lobes, but the left lobe had the hue of a dead leaf, and 
from its middle to its lower border was easily torn, and looked 
as it would have done if cooked. Towards the most dependent 
part of the border, it was considerably thickened and presented 
a tumor of the size of two fists, adherent to the posterior face of 
the diaphragm and to the surrounding peritoneum. This tumor, 
when opened, proved to be an abscess lined with a pyogenic mem¬ 
brane, and containing white creamy pus. The kidneys were 
pale, the pelvis and tubuli showing here and there a desquama¬ 
tion of the epitheliums. The bladder was somewhat injected, and 
the small quantity of urine it contained was cloudy and thick, 
without reaction with nitric acid, and without a trace of sugar. 
Death was evidently due to the polyuria and the suppurative 
hepatitis, which was undoubtedly, of traumatic origin.— Journal 
des Societes Scientifque. 
INVITATION 
TO VETERINARIANS TO THE CONVENTION OF CATTLE 
GROWERS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
Office of Territorial Veterinarian, > 
Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 30, 1885. y 
To State Veterinarians and Members of Sanitary Boards . 
Gentlemen: —The National Convention of the Cattle 
Growers of the United States will be held in Chicago, Ill., 
Nov. 17th, 18th and 19th, 1885, and the most important subject 
for consideration will be “ Contagious Diseases of Domestic 
Animals,” and the methods to be employed for their eradication 
and prevention. 
This convention will be composed of men of ability, character 
and influence, and the expressions of these gentlemen will Lave 
