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tion of the readers of the Review to the possibility of salivary 
calculi forming in the molar glands. 
Before closing I must add that this very manner of feeding 
grained hay causes a good many salivary fistulae, which all cure 
in a short time by an injection of liquer de Villate. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
The regular monthly meeting of the New York State Veter¬ 
inary Society was held at the American Veterinary College, on 
October 10th, 1882. 
In the absence of the President, the Secretary called the 
meeting to order, and the Vice President, Dr. Burden, was called 
to the chair. After the calling of the roll and the reading of the 
minutes of the previous meeting, the essayist, Dr. Coates, pre~ 
sented the following paper on “ Septicaemia and Pyaemia.” 
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Mr. President and Gentlemen: 
According to the request of the President of the New York 
State Veterinary Society, to write an essay on some topic which 
will be of interest to the profession, and at the same time to ex¬ 
cite a discussion among the members of this Society, I have 
chosen a subject from which I hope to hear the different views 
and opinions of the gentlemen here assembled freely expressed, as 
it is a matter which requires attention not only on account of its 
pathology, but the manner and mode of its production. Some 
diseases are interesting on account of their frequency, others be¬ 
cause of their rarity, while pyaemia and septicaemia are on account 
of the diversity of opinion as to their pathology, etiology and 
symptomatology, and I have written as concisely as possible the 
most prominent features of these diseases. Pyaemia is a specific 
infectious disease, acting the same way every time—a morbid 
condition of the blood, which is produced by a miasm generated 
in decomposing pus, giving rise to recurrent chills, fevers and 
sweats, and characterized after death by metastatic abscesses; 
while septicaemia is a morbid condition of the blood dependent 
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