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FK. BEAZEKOVIC. 
Improvements of our quarantine stations were declared 
necessary in order to prevent future importations of contagious 
or infectious diseases. Such improvements will follow when 
better laws and a sufficient amount of funds are provided. 
The organization of a National Veterinary Sanitary Board 
was urged, and a committee appointed to draft constitution and 
by-laws, to be presented at the next meeting of the convention. 
If this can be accomplished, veterinary medicine will have taken 
a long stride toward the place she deserves to hold in the political 
economy of this country. C. B. M. 
CORRECTION. 
In our November number, at the sixth upper line of page 272, 
the word “ medical ” ought to be replaced by the word “ veter¬ 
inary.” 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
DISEASES OF THE HEART IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 
ESPECIALLY THE HORSE. 
By Fe. Blazekovio. 
(.Translated by J. G. Meyer, Sr., V. S.) 
Continued from page 300. 
Carditis and Myocarditis. 
The injection of the inter-muscular tissue is considerable at 
the outset, characteristic ecchymotic redness appears very soon; 
the affected parts are dark colored, and, by the fluid effused in 
the cellular tissue they become softened, swollen and of a tawny 
color. Such smaller or greater dispersed deposits are spread over 
the greater portion of the section of the heart, and often affect 
the wall of the heart in its entire thickness. In traumatic myo¬ 
carditis such spots are most numerous in the immediate vicinity 
of the injured part. In such case the pointed foreign body which 
penetrated the heart and reached here through the diaphragm 
and pericardium from the reticulum, becomes enclosed by a 
solid fibrous capsule in the muscle of the heart; still there are 
always such changes to be found which characterize the traumatic 
