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rabbits which are not even vaccinated. Then, again, bacteridics 
attenuated by heat (culture at 42°, 43°), may kill guinea-pigs and 
rabbits, and still remain without effect upon sheep, and do not 
vaccinate them. This shows how prudent one must be in the 
choice of vaccine matters which may be used in practice.— 
Gazette Medicate. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS, 
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
The fourteenth regular meeting of the New York State Vete¬ 
rinary Society was held at the American Veterinary College, on 
Tuesday evening, June 12, 1883, at eight o’clock, with the Presi¬ 
dent, Dr. Liautard, in the chair. The minutes of the last meet¬ 
ing were read and approved. 
The President then called the attention of the members to 
the subject for discussion —“ scarlet fever in horses.” ' He said 
that articles having been published in some of the medical and 
daily papers, speaking of scarlet fever occurring in horses, and 
being considered by some as a possible origin of outbreaks in the 
human family, the subject was deserving of attention on the part 
of veterinarians. On being asked to express his opinion on the 
matter, Dr. Liautard said that the disease which had been 
most recently described by Prof. Williams, had also been men¬ 
tioned by others, amongst whom were Percivall and Haycock ; 
that he personally, as far as he knew of scarlet fever in man, 
had never met with an affection of horses which could be com¬ 
pared to it; that he had seen cases of so-called scarlatina as de¬ 
scribed in the text books, but considered them as mild forms of 
purpura with laryngeal complications, and that he had never ob¬ 
served the many essential symptoms of sciirlet fever, nor that 
of desquammation ; that he was now engaged in various experi¬ 
ments in relation to the matter, and would be pleased to let them 
known to the association afterwards. 
Dr. L. McLean thinks Prof. Williams made a mistake 
in calling the disease, as he describes it, scarlet fever. 
