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strated the use of the instrument on a mare, extirpating the 
right ovary. He says he has operated on a large number of 
mares and cows without fatalities. 
Dr. Hoskins gave his experience on the use of ethyl chloride 
as a local anaesthetic, he preferring it to cocaine for minor plastic 
operations. 
Adjourned. W. G. Benner, Recording Secy . 
NORTH DAKOTA VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The fourth annual meeting of the North Dakota Veterinary 
Medical Association convened December 4, 1895, at the Hotel 
Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D. The following members responded 
to roll-call: Doctors Taylor, Turcott, Crewe, La Pointe, Shep- 
perd and Hinebauch. The visitors present were Doctors Miller, 
O’Connor and Graftegraph. 
The morning session was taken up principally with the report 
of the treasurer and secretary, and the reading of a paper by 
Dr. Hinebauch on the use of electricity in the practice of veter¬ 
inary medicine and surgery. The paper was discussed at con¬ 
siderable length, a number of the veterinarians present having 
previously assisted the writer in diagnosing several cases of diffi¬ 
cult lameness by means of the battery. 
The afternoon session was opened by the president's address, 
and followed by another paper on the subject of millet disease in 
horses. This paper was a continuation of the one presented two 
years previous. In the discussion which followed, Dr. Turcott 
remarked that he had been somewhat skeptical regarding the in¬ 
fluence of millet as a disease-producing food. He said that the 
evidence of the experiments, however, convinced him that millet 
had more or less of an influence in the producing of pathological 
conditions. 
The Society is in a very healthy condition, having now a total 
membership of twenty. There are but twenty-one graduated 
veterinarians in the State, hence we think we can boast of a 
larger percentage of membership than possibly any other State 
society. 
The Society can congratulate itself upon being able to have 
a law passed at the last session of the legislature which hereafter 
will practically control the practice of veterinary medicine and 
surgery in the State. Although the law was not all the Society 
wished, yet it was all that we could expect to have passed. The 
Legislature was thoroughly canvassed as soon as it had been 
