SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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Anatomical prize of Prof. Liautard, for tiie best examination 
in the junior class—John A. Leyton. 
The College re-opens for the Spring session on the 1st of 
March and continues until the middle of April. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The regular fortnightly meeting of this Association was held 
in the lecture room of the "Veterinary College on Thursday even¬ 
ing last, Mr. C. J. Alloway, Y. S., President, in the chair. Mr. 
William Bell, Kars, Ont., was balloted for and elected a member 
of the Association. After the usual preliminary business had 
been disposed of, the Chairman called on Mr. Richard Price 
to read his communication on enteritis. Mr. Price described the 
history, symptoms, treatment and post mortem lesions of a typical 
case from notes taken by himself, which gave rise to an interesting 
discussion. Mr. C. B. Robinson, St. Thomas, Out., read the 
notes of a case diaganosed to be acute nephritis in a horse on his 
own farm, which yielded to active treatment and made a rapid 
recovery. Mr. E. J. Carter was then called upon to read his pa¬ 
per on counter irritation in the treatment of chest affections. The 
reader stated that this was a subject which had of late given rise 
to considerable discussion among veterinarians, especially in 
England, some of the best minds in the profession being for and 
against the employment of counter irritation in the treatment of 
chest affections. He gave a resume of the arguments advanced 
pro and con , and summed up by agreeing with the idea that counter 
irritation has been used too much in chest affections and ought to 
be replaced by milder and more soothing treatment. Mr. M. C. 
Baker, Y. S., considered that the idea of applying counter irrita¬ 
tion to the chest for the purpose of drawing blood from the in¬ 
flamed lung or pleura was wrong in theory, as by increasing the 
cutaneous circulation the pressure of pulmonary circulation is 
