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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
This Association held its regular fortnightly meeting in the lec¬ 
ture room of the Veterinary College on Thursday evening last, 
the President, Mr. C. J. Alio way, V.S., in the chair. A full at¬ 
tendance of members was present. The Secretary stated to the 
meeting that a number of new books had recently been added to 
the library, which now amounts to upwards of 300 volumes, and 
that new catalogues were in course of preparation, and would be 
ready for distribution at next meeting, after the usual routine 
business had been disposed of. The Chairman called upon Mr. 
Donald Campbell to read his communication of a case of Enter¬ 
itis , which he interestingly described, and was followed by a 
lively discussion. 
Dr. William McEachran then favored the meeting by reading 
an exhaustive paper on “ Anthrax,” a very fatal disease, and 
known also by different names, such as—splenis apoplexy, car- 
buncular fever, charbon, &c. The reader treated the subject very 
fully, and, after alluding to the fatality of the disease, and the 
danger of communicability by inoculation, to man, urged upon 
the members the necessity of using the greatest caution in hand¬ 
ling animals who have died suddenly, and more particularly in 
performing autopsies. He illustrated this point by reading 
records of two cases of accidental inoculation occurring in this 
city, one of which proved fatal. After a vote of thanks to the 
essayists, the meeting closed. At the next meeting, December 
9th, Mr. M. C. Baker, Y.S., will read a paper, and Mr. B. D. 
Pierce will commmunicate a case. 
