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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS, 
KEYSTONE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
This Association was called to order by President John R. 
Hart, Tuesday, February n, at 8:30 P. M. The members 
present were: Drs. Eves Hoskins, Hart, Lintz, McClellan, 
Rhoads and McAnulty. The visitors were: Thomas B. Ray¬ 
nor, F. S. Allen, J. O. George, J. C. McBirney, B. M. Under¬ 
hill and some students from the Veterinary Department of 
the University of Pennsylvania. 
Dr. Hoskins gave a very encouraging report of the bill 
endorsed by the Association at the previous meeting, and 
earnestly solicited the continued work of all veterinarians for 
this measure. 
It was announced that the State Board of Veterinary 
Medical Examiners will meet in Philadelphia, April 20 and 
21, for the purpose of giving examinations. 
Dr. Eves gave a very interesting talk, during which he 
brought out many good points regarding legislation, also 
freely discussing many diseases with which they had to con¬ 
tend, among which were tuberculosis, anthrax, hydrophobia, 
ringworm in cattle, tetanus, menengitis, hog cholera, cestris 
bovis and contagious abortion. He said they had condemned 
about 200 cattle out of 1,100 examined for tuberculosis, and 
the post-mortems held on 90 per cent, of them had always 
proven the correctness of their diagnoses. The tuberculin 
used is that made by Prof. Chester at the Delaware Experi¬ 
ment Station, and they found it equal to Koch’s. They take 
the temperature for two days before and one day after 
making injections, and all cattle showing a reaction of one 
to one and a half degrees are condemned. They have fifty 
to sixty fatal cases of anthrax annually. This is found princi¬ 
pally on the salt meadows, and is traceable to the infected 
districts of New Jersey, being brought to Delaware by the 
flood tides. They have inoculated 850 cases and returned 
them to the infected district, with a loss of but two, eight and 
six weeks respectively after their return. They use in each 
case 0.3 c.c. of virus of three grades : No. 1 kills white mice 
invariably, and nothing else; No. 2 kills white mice and 
guinea-pigs in 60 per cent, of all cases; No. 3 kills guinea-pigs 
invariably, but has never as yet killed a rabbit. They have 
an appropriation of $500 for burying cattle having died with 
anthrax. They have tested fourteen cases of glanders at 
