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WILLIAM CUTTING 
Drs. Fenwick, Liautard and Lyford, for their kind donations to 
the library. 
The following gentlemen were nominated for membership: h. 
Torrance, Compton, P. Q.; A. J. Chandler, Coaticook, P. Q-; 
Messrs. Thomas and Skully, Boston, Mass.; Mr. 1) unden, Salem, 
N. Y.; A. Glass, Philadelphia, Penn.; W. Wardle, Montreal, Que. 
At the next meeting (Oct. 23d inst.) Principal McEachran 
Avill read a paper on contagious pleuro-pneumonia, a subject that 
at the present time is one of especial interest, not only to the 
members of the profession, but to all that are connected with the 
breeding and exportation of cattle, and Mr. M. S. Brown will 
communicate a case .—Montreal Daily Witness. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
TRAUMATIC TETANUS. 
By William Cutting, V.S. 
On September 13th last, in the afternoon, my attention was 
called to a bay mare seven years of age, belonging to Mr. Deum- 
pelmaus, suffering from traumatic tetanus. The mare ate her 
grain and hay at noon, but the stableman found a difficulty in 
getting the bit in her mouth, on harnessing for work. When 1 
first saw her the membrana nictitans was passing backwards and 
forwards rapidly over the eye, and on raising the head suddenly, 
covered the eyes completely. 1 saw a wound on the near fore 
fetlock joint, and at once attributed the mare’s condition to that 
as a cause. 1 afterward found that the mare had picked up a 
bolt in the outside of the off fore foot, between the bar and the 
frog, near the heel, ten days before this attack. The stableman 
dressed the wound, as it was thought to be of little or no conse¬ 
quence. This wound healed up. and the animal recovered from 
lameness, but the man who drove the irn^re thought something 
