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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
The regular monthly meeting of the New York State Veteri¬ 
nary Society was held at the American Veterinary College, on 
the evening of November 14th, 1882, with the President in the 
chair. After the roll-call, the minutes of the previous meeting 
were read and adopted. 
As the essayist had not then arrived, the President called for 
reports of cases. 
Dr. Cattanach described a case in which he abstracted two 
hairy tumors from the back part of the posterior brachial region. 
They appeared to be two balls of hair, encysted, surrounded with 
pus, and intermingled with a sebaceous tluid. One was the size 
of a walnut, while the other was longer. Dr. C. C. Cattanach 
reported meeting with a second similar case in a horse of the 
same owner. 
Dr. Liautard stated that he saw the second case, and had met 
with similar cases some years ago. 
Dr. O. C. Jackson recorded a case of a horse which was 
brought to him, with the history that he had been unable to swal¬ 
low anything for four days. On examination, the cause proved 
to be a corn-cob, which he found firmly fastened between the 
upper molar teeth, well back. The doctor removed the obstruc¬ 
tion, and the horse swallowed readily. 
Dr. Coates reported a like case in a cow, in which he also 
found the obstruction to be a corn-cob in the upper portion of 
the oesophagus, not fast, but suspended by a cord fastened to the 
cob, which had become entangled in her molars. 
The essayist, Dr. Crane, now arrived, and read a carefully 
prepared paper on Rheumatism, as follows: 
Mr. President and Gentlemen: 
Rheumatism is dependent upon the presence in the blood of 
some poisonous material, which probably accumulates there in 
consequence of malassimilation. This poison is supposed to be 
lactic acid, and it is during an effort at its elimination that the 
