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Now I believe “ pink-eye ” to be an epizootic form of this 
disease and, judging from my experience, can see no radical dif¬ 
ference between them. In every case that I have had, in which 
the symptoms were at all well marked, they were more or less 
identical with those I have seen in sporadic influenza. 
I therefore think the swelling of the limbs, etc., in my cases, 
was due, not to cellulitis , but to passive congestion, caused by a 
damming back of the blood of the venous system, and imperfect 
aeration of that blood, due to congestion of the lungs , and result¬ 
ing in a transudation of the normal serosity into the surrounding 
parts. 
To conclude, I have never seen a bona-fide symptom of cellu¬ 
litis proper, either in sporadic or epizootic influenza. 
Very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
C. L. Hingston, M.R.C.V.S., 
U. S. Third Cavalry. 
Fort D. A. Bussell, Wyo., May 17th, 1882. 
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT, 
ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The winter exercises of the institution were brought to a 
close in the large lecture room of the college. Dr. Smith, the 
Principal, occupied the chair, and Mr. Duncan discharged the 
duties of Secretary. Among the gentlemen in attendance were 
Hon. Adam Crooks, Minister of Education ; Drs. Barratt 
and Thorburn, lecturers at the college ; Mr. Grange, of the Agri¬ 
cultural College, Guelph; Mr. Coleman, of Ottawa; and the 
President of the Ontario Veterinary Association. Over one 
hundred students and graduates were present to take part in the 
proceedings, which were of a most enjoyable and enthusiastic 
character. Letters of apology and regret were read from the 
Hon. O. Mowat, Premier of Ontario, and from his Worship 
Mayor McMurrich. 
