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that may be incurred in carrying out its provisions, (including one 
for the reimbursement of the value of infected animals pur¬ 
chased and slaughtered in States or Territories accepting the pro¬ 
posed rules and regulations,) the bill appropriates $200,000 to be 
disbursed under the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture. 
— N. Y. Times. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
THE MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
This Association held its regular fortnightly meeting in the 
lecture room of the Veterinary College on Thursday evening last, 
the President, Mr. C. J. Alloway, V. S., in the chair. A full 
attendance of members was present. At the close of the usual 
preliminary business, the chairman requested Mr. P. Paquin to 
describe his case. The reader said the subject of his communi¬ 
cation was a case of tetanus, commonly called lock-jaw, in a horse 
which he treated last summer. He fully described the symptoms 
and mode of treatment, which consisted in small and repeated 
doses of chloral hydrate, under which the animal finally recov¬ 
ered. An interesting discussion followed, and the reader was 
complimented for his skill and success. The chairman next called 
upon Mr. Alexander Glass to communicate his case of purpura 
hsemorrhagica, which had been successfully treated at the College 
Hospital. Mr. Glass said his case was a mare which had been 
suffering from influenza during the late epizootic outbreak, and 
that the purpura had followed as a sequel. He fully described 
the carefully-noted symptoms, together with the treatment, which 
consisted of one and a half ounces of ol terel made into a ball with 
a sufficiency of lina farina and repeated four times a day; she 
likewise got small quantities of ferrous sulphate, under which 
treatment she gradually recovered. In the discussion that fol¬ 
lowed all present approved of the treatment, and agreed that the 
marked beneficial effects of the remedies showed their efficacy in 
counteracting the destructive changes in the blood which are 
