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CORRESPONDENCE. 
tendered to Dr. Osier and Mr. Clement, and also to Mr. Robin' 
son, for their instructive papers.— Gazette, (Montreal.) 
U. S. VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The regular semi-annual meeting of the United States Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association will be held at Young’s Hotel, Bos¬ 
ton, on Tuesday, March 21st, at 11 a. m. 
The Comitia Minora meets at 10 a. m. 
C. B. Michener, Sec. 
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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The Alumni meeting of the American Veterinary College 
will be held in the lecture room of A. V. C., Monday, March 6, 
at 10 a. m. 
Jas. D. Hopkins, Sec. 
CORRESPONDENCE, 
THE OPERATION FOR CARTILAGINOUS QUITTOR. 
Editor of the American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir. —As during the last few months I have seen the 
operation for cartilaginous quittor and the after treatment almost 
daily, my attention was specially called to your note in the 
November number of the Review, and to Dr. Bryden’s letter in 
the January number which I received to-day. 
A few data may be of interest to him and to others. 
Probably nowhere is “ the operation for cartilaginous quittor ” 
(the modified operation of Renault) so often performed to-day 
as it now is at your old alma mater at Alfort. Here, be¬ 
cause the horses come as a last resort after the failure of 
other treatment; and if the disease has not made such rav¬ 
ages as to render all treatment hopeless, they are returned to 
work, at a walk, in six weeks, and can trot in three months. 
The general rules for treatment here are : 
