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334 MONTREAL VET. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The above Association held its regular fortnightly meeting in the 
lecture room of the College, Union Avenue, on Thursday evening, 
November 8, Professor McEachran in the chair. 
After the usual routine of business, the President referred to the 
large and handsome additions that have been recently made to the 
library—some sixty volumes, comprising many of the standard works 
on Physiology, Anatomy, Pathology, etc., etc. 
Votes of thanks were then tendered the President, Professor Osier 
and Mr. C. J. Alloway, for their donations to the library. 
Mr. J. A. Couture, V. S., was then called upon to read his com¬ 
munication of a case of extensive sloughing of the skin and muscles 
on the thigh of a horse, which was followed by an animated discussion. 
The event of the evening was the reading of a paper on “ The 
So-called Hog Cholera, or Typhoid Fever in Pigs,” by Prof. Wm. Osier, 
Vice-President of the Association. The lecturer in the course of his 
remarks went on to show the great importance of the subject under dis¬ 
cussion to the agriculturist, as stock raisers in the United States suffered 
a loss in hogs of $20,000,000 annually, principally in Ohi6 and Illinois; 
neither is the disease unknown in this country, as during the past season 
a well known agriculturist near Quebec has had his herd decimated 
by its ravages. 
The doctor also spoke of a number of experiments conducted by 
him at the Veterinary College here, in which the disease was produced 
in five subjects from different methods of inoculation, and minutely 
described the symptoms and post-mortem lesions in each. He showed 
the infectious nature of the disease, and urged the importance of strict 
enforcement of sanitary laws. 
Professor Osier intimated, however, that the paper was only prelim¬ 
inary. He had made extensive notes of all the cases, and of a large 
number of post-mortem examinations made at Quebec. Specimens 
were preserved at the College Museum, and drawings of post-mortem 
appearances were being prepared (a beautiful specimen of which was 
exhibited), and it was intended that an exhaustive paper on the subject 
should shortly be presented to the profession. 
The President remarked that the disease was discovered in two 
pigs lately imported, and fortunately detained at the Quarantine. Pro¬ 
fessor Cressy also gave his experience in this disease which, being some¬ 
what extensive, was listened to with considerable interest. 
