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in destroying infecting principles, but to the speaker’s mind there 
was no safety to a community, especially to children, where flesh 
or fluid containing the elements of such a disease as that under 
consideration were allowed to be sold unrestricted. The advan¬ 
tage, therefore, of a well-regulated abbatoir, under a thorough 
system of scientific inspection of all animals killed for public con¬ 
sumption, were evident; and of no less importance was the su¬ 
pervision of all public dairies, and the periodic inspection of the 
cattle supplying our children with a fluid which constituted the 
chief article of their diet. In the discussion which followed, in 
reply to the question, “ Why was it that consumption was so 
rarely seen in children ?” the speaker said it was a mistake to sup¬ 
pose such was the case ; who can tell how many of those cases 
of tubercular spinal meningitis, which were, alas! too common, 
and in which no tubercular family history could be traced, were 
produced by the milk of a tuberculous cow ? It was now well un¬ 
derstood that in many of the cases of so-called cholera infantum, 
milliary tubercles were found to exist. It must not be forgotten 
also that consumption in the human family, even in the hereditary 
form, generally developed in early adult life, and there is no rea¬ 
son why it should not develop sooner when the contagion was 
received in another way than by the blood of the parent. 
For the next meeting, November 12th, Mr. C. J. Alloway, Y. 
S., will read a paper on “ Sanitary Measures,” and Mr. E. J. 
Carter will communicate a case of “ Pleurisy.” 
After a vote of thanks to the essayists, the meeting was 
brought to a close. 
EXCHANGES, ETC, RECEIVED. 
Home Exchanges. —National Live Stock Journal, Medical 
.Record, American Agriculturist, Prairie Farmer, Ohio Farmer, 
Practical Farmer, Surgical Reporter, Bulletin of the National 
Board of Health, Scientific American, Turf, Field and Farm. 
Foreign Exchanges. —Gazette Medicale, Annales de Bel¬ 
gique, Archives Yeterinaires, Recueil de Medecine Yeterinaire, 
