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described and illustrated by several handsomely made plates, 
with concluding remarks from Dr. Whitney, which seem to the 
author of the report, and, we believe, will be conceded by all, 
to prove that the lungs condemned in England in the cases referred 
to, were not affected with pleuropneumonia contagiosa , but with 
chronic interstitial pneumonia with peribronchitis, with necrosis, 
and the formation of small cavities at and within the lung tissue 
proper, with evidences that tuberculosis played a more or less 
prominent part in the aetiology of these changes. 
The report is quite strong in its argument, and throws much 
light on the question then in doubt, of the existence of the lung 
plague in these slaughtered American steers. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Journal of this Association has recently been published ? 
as the first number, to be continued at intervals. It contains three 
hundred pages of excellent articles from several contributors. 
Amongst those most interesting to veterinarians is that of Prof. 
Law on the Bovine Lung Plague—a subject which the author has 
already written much about, but on which, however, he always finds 
material to treat with the hand of a master of his subject. The 
Journal can be had from the Secretary, M. J. Reall, 127 Water 
St., N. Y. Price 75 cents. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CHLORAL HYDRATE AS AN ANESTHETIC. 
Mr. Editor: 
Understanding that there are some doubts thrown upon the 
correctness of the views expressed and results obtained by the use 
of chloral hydrate as an anaesthetic in veterinary practice by our 
compeer, G. H. Peabody, D.Y.S. of Providence, R. I.. and which 
were given to the public for the first time through a previous issue 
of the Review, I take the liberty to briefly refer to two instances 
in my own practice, where its use was resorted to and the results 
obtained. Having occasion to use the actual cautery upon an old 
