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erinarian as a Sanitarian/’—a very able paper.* The Associa¬ 
tion extended a vote ot thanks to Dr. Hoskins, also ordered 
i ooo copies printed for distribution. 
In discussion, Dr. Hoskins said if we had sanitary irispec- 
tois we have no laws adequate to the occasion. That is if 
we discover a case of glanders in the northwest part of the 
State, we have to send to Dr. Bridge in Philadelphia before 
action cqn be taken. We have no members on the Board of 
Health, nor even recognized by it. The public should be 
educated up to the point that they will demand laws gov¬ 
erning public funerals in case of contagious diseases. He 
stated that eighty children had died in one town of diphthe¬ 
ria, yet nothing was done to prevent the spread of the 
disease. 
Dr. Sallade was asked his views, when he said he already 
had expressed his opinion on this subject, as he had read a 
paper before the Association on “ Cremation,” and is also a 
eader in the Bovine Association. He said that Association 
had brought dollars into his pocket, and had also aroused the 
people to the dangers in the food supply. He had rid the 
community in which he resides of tuberculosis in cattle. 
When a man buys a cow, the Bovine Association sends him 
to examine the cow, and if tubercular, it is at once dispatched. 
! He gave the symptoms from which he diagnosed tubercu¬ 
losis : Slight rise in temperature, tenderness along the spine, 
emaciation, continued oestrum, sibilant rales in lungs. 
Dr. Ridge reported a case of abscess in the left guttural 
pouch,* while Dr. Shaufler thought, as did Dr. Ridge, that it 
was pharyngitis at first, then extending to pouch, as Dr. 
Shaufler had a case very similar which he felt very sure was 
originally pharyngitis. 
Dr. Ridge cited a case of gangrene of anterior lobe of 
lung without being recognized by two good practitioners. 
Dr. Hoskins thought we might have gangrene of a small 
portion without it being readily recognizable, but thought 
we always have an increase in temperature, and as it is very 
* Published in this issue. 
