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VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Proceedings of the American Veterinary Medical Association (Proc. Amer. 

 Vet. Med. Assoc, 42 (1905), pp. 506, pis. 20). — This volume contains an account of the 

 meeting of the forty-second annual convention of the American Veterinary Medical 

 Association, held in Cleveland, Ohio, August 15-18, 1905. 



As usual, in the proceedings lists are given of the officers, committees, resident 

 secretaries, and honorary and active members of the society. The address of wel- 

 come was given by the mayor of Cleveland, T. L. Johnson, and was responded to 

 by R. R. Bell. The president's address, by M. E. Knowles, contained references to 

 various veterinary matters, particularly to the cooperation of veterinarians and 

 physicians and the importance of the veterinarian in the promotion of general 

 sanitation. 



In the reports of resident State secretaries attention is called to the condition 

 of health in domesticated animals in the various States and Territories. In Ari- 

 zona and New Mexico, particular attention was given during the year to sheep 

 seal); in Colorado to cattle mange, loco weed, and bovine tuberculosis; in Connecti- 

 cut, Cuba, and Porto Rico, to the legislative control of animal diseases; in Maine, 

 to tuberculosis and glanders; in Maryland, to anthrax and forage poisoning; in 

 Michigan, to rabies; in Minnesota, to hemorrhagic septicemia and swamp fever; in 

 Mississippi, to anthrax and Texas fever; in Nebraska, to various parasitic diseases; 

 in Ohio, to tuberculosis and swine plague; in Ontario, to actinobacillosis and hog 

 cholera; in Pennsylvania, to legislation regarding experimental veterinary work; in 

 the Philippines, to surra, rinderpest, and foot-and-mouth disease; in Tennessee, to 

 glanders and influenza; in Texas, to Texas fever and cattle mange; in Vermont, to, 

 anthrax and glanders; and in Wisconsin, to the present status of the veterinary 

 practitioner. 



The Report of the Committee on Intelligence and Education, by C. J. Marshall 

 etal., contains a general review of matters of interest to veterinarians, a digest of 

 recent veterinary literature, and a detailed account of the quality of instruction and 

 the curricula in various veterinary schools in this country. 



In the report of the Committee on Diseases, by C. H. Higgins et al., attention is 

 devoted to methods of keeping the clinical history of cases, the need of more veteri- 

 nary research work, and the discussion of rabies, Bacillus necrophorus, roup in 

 chickens, and the State control of tuberculosis. The present status of the movement 

 for securing legislation regarding army veterinarians was presented by a committee 

 consisting of W. H. Lowe et al. 



An unusual number of papers were read at the various meetings of the convention 

 and are printed in the proceedings. It is impossible to refer to these except in the 

 briefest manner. The Artificial Immunization of Cattle Against Tuberculosis was 

 discussed by L. Pearson and S. H. Gilliland. The authors report considerable suc- 

 cess in the use of various vaccinating methods and believe that these methods promise 

 to become much more effective. Papers were also presented on The Pathology of 

 Tuberculosis, by C. Schulin, and by R. H. Harrison on Unusual Lesions of Tuber- 

 culosis Found in Abattoir Inspection. The method of controlling glanders adopted 

 by a French firm which employs a large number of horses was discussed in a paper 

 by E. Lavalard. The method consists in the general use of mallein, furnishing as 

 favorable conditions as possible for suspected horses in quarantine, and the exercise 

 of great care in introducing strange horses into a healthy herd. 



The Spavin Group of Lamenesses was discussed by W. L. Williams et al. This 

 account is one of the most important thus far published on the general subject of 

 spavin and enters, in great detail, into the pathology, peculiar forms, etiology, and 

 treatment of the disease by different methods. 



