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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
SALIVARY CALCULUS. 
By W. H. Curtiss, D.V. S., Marengo, Ill. 
August 2 2d, 1896, I removed a salivary calculus from Steno’s 
duct of a horse. It was as hard as stone, and of the following 
dimensions: length, 2 yi, inches; circumference, 2 inches; 
weight, one ounce. I removed by operating through the 
mouth. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIA¬ 
TION. 
The thirty-third annual meeting of this association convened 
on Tuesday morning, September 1st, at 10.30 a.m., in the lec¬ 
ture-room of the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y., with the 
President, Dr. Hoskins, in the chair, who introduced Acting 
Mayor Boeckel, who made a very happy address to the mem¬ 
bers, extending a most hearty welcome to the city, touching in¬ 
telligently upon the great work which the profession is accom¬ 
plishing in the field of sanitary medicine, finally offering them 
the freedom of the city. Prof. Osgood, of Harvard, responded 
on behalf of the association, in one of his usual fine efforts, after 
which the Convention was formally thrown open for the trans¬ 
action of the important work upon the long programme. 
The President then read the following address : 
Fellow- Members and Colleagues : 
This thirty-third annual meeting which has drawn us together at this time from so 
many points of our much loved country, and which has added another year to our asso¬ 
ciation’s history, another link to the chain that marks off the era of growth of our profes¬ 
sion at home, dates a peculiar period in the history of our avocation. For many years we 
have followed in all lines the footsteps of the older nations of Europe and with a keen eye 
watched their progress and scanned their results that we might employ them for the good 
of our own people; but to-day we note the changed aspect of affairs and discern the eye of 
the old world following the pathway we are cutting through the long neglected and ig¬ 
nored field of veterinary sanitary medicine and marking for ourselves a page in history 
that shall never be effaced and to which in the near future the humblest mortal on earth 
will gladly give homage. ’Tis under these auspicious conditions, my colleagues, that I 
welcome you to the deliberations of this convention, and toward whose work you have 
long looked forward with eagerness and pleasure. I bid you all the freest expression 
of your thoughts during the sessions of our convention, and I would ever remind you that 
this is your “ Mecca,” toward which your annual pilgrimages are made to lay down your 
offerings and tributes as tokens of the measure of your appreciation of the res onsibilities 
that your profession has laid upon your shoulders. It is meet to do good at all times, and 
while your chosen calling may never bring wealth, it brings to you one and all that which 
is better,—happiness, honor and power ; and to do good to your fellow-man is the highest 
and noblest work one can engage in, and he who would bend his whole aim and purposes 
in our work of mercy and the relief of suffering, to the greed of gain, is unworthy of the 
name of veterinarian, and pity ’tis that he ever entered the ranks of the profession. I he 
