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was observed from the vagina. For nearly a week the mare was 
feverish and gave evidence of pain when compelled to move. 
During this time she received no medical attention. When seen 
by your correspondent she manifested intense suffering; the pulse 
was 96 a minute and weak, the respiration rapid, the abdomen 
was somewhat distended by fluid; she was evidently sinking, and 
died in two or three hours. A careful post-mortem brought to 
view a vagina small and short, intensely inflamed, but nowhere 
ruptured. Inflammation had extended by the urethra to the 
bladder, from the vagina to the uterus, and from the latter to 
the peritoneum generally. Peritonitis had terminated in effusion, 
so that several gallons of water were found in the abdominal 
cavity. 
EDITORIAL. 
UNITED STATES VETEKINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ANNIVER¬ 
SARY MEETING. 
The nineteenth meeting of the United States Veterinary Med 
ical Association, appointed for September 20th, took place as an¬ 
nounced and after a session of several hours duration, adjourned. 
The State of New York was represeneed by quite a large number 
of members. Massachusetts had two representatives, and Con¬ 
necticut and New Jersey one each, making a total of about 
twenty-five. The Association however, has members residing in 
Pennsylvania, Khode Island, Maine, Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska, 
Texas and Colorado. Massachusetts furnishes some ten or twelve 
members, and New Jersey counts five or six. It thus appears 
that while some sixty-five representatives of the profession can 
claim membership in the Association, but twenty-five were pres¬ 
ent, and of these four only belonged to States outside of New 
York. 
The day was passed almost entirely in the discussion of arti¬ 
cles of the by-laws, and with the exception of a meagre report from 
one of the committees, and the reading of a few remarks upon the 
