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lameness. Catarrhal fever seldom entails these as sequels. 
Finally we are told, and at present have no reason to doubt, 
that in cellulitic fever there exists the so-called fibrinous erasis of 
the hlood. Hence the pleuritic and rheumatic complications, em¬ 
bolism and thrombosis. In catarrhal fever the opposite condition 
of the blood is known to exist; a depraved and impoverished con¬ 
dition of the hlood, and in many cases disintegration of its 
elements ; hence, purpura hemorrhagica as a sequel. 
I have never known this last named disorder to follow celluli¬ 
tic fever. 
The epizootic of 1875 was a distinctively catarrhal fever, and 
I saw no cases of pleurisy or pleurodynia during its continuance. 
The epizootic of 1875 might, I think, appropriately be called 
a protean fever, as I saw many cases that were clearly catarrhal, 
attended by violent fits of coughing, nasal discharge, &c. In 
others there were no catarrhal symptoms, and in these cases pleu¬ 
risy or pleurodynia existed. 
The so-called pink-eye that now and for two months has quite 
extensively existed in this city, is a fever in which catarrhal symp¬ 
toms are universally absent, bnt a fever in which the distinctive 
characteristics are derangement and disorder of the cellular tissue, 
hence the appropriatenesss of cellulitic fever. 
-Rochester, N. Y., June 9, 1882. E. Mink. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
The regular monthly meeting of this Society was held at the 
American Veterinary College, on Tuesday, June 13th, at eight 
o’clock, p.m., with the President, Dr. Liautard, in the chair. 
Drs. Liautard, Burden, Coates, Field, Cattanach, Foote, Coch¬ 
ran, Michener, Crane, Bunker, Devoc and Robertson responded to 
the roll-call. 
Dr. Bunker reported an interesting case, in which a mare, af¬ 
ter an attack of spinal meningitis, passed through the urethra the 
mucous membrane of the bladder, the membrane being studded 
with small calcareous deposits. Dr. Liautard reported a similar 
case in a gelding, and a second in a mare, which had come under 
