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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
facts he did not think, considering the difference in dates, that 
medicine had made an exceptionally healthy progress. The 
speaker, becoming eloquent, gave his opinion of different 
State colleges and universities, with only one professor on 
veterinary subjects connected with them, yet graduating vet¬ 
erinary surgeons ; he thought that students so taught did not 
develop their brain power in behalf of their profession, but 
their minds became simply storage places for the professor’s 
prescriptions, and when sent into actual practice the chances 
were they would not show an individualism, but treat accord¬ 
ing to set rule ; in other words, become the professor by 
proxy. He asked, is there no way to prevent this ; if there is 
not, let us all, each and every one, make it a duty to show to 
students contemplating such a course the fallacy of the mat¬ 
ter, and the real need of a veterinary education, taught by a 
full corps of competent professors. 
The speaker regretted the want of harmony as exhibited 
by evidence in the actinomykosis cases at Peoria, where men 
of high governmental standing tacitly admitted the disease 
caused unwholesome meat, by rejecting it for export, still 
allowing it to be used when decapitated ; and men of high 
professional standing claiming its wholesomness, when he 
thought that not one of them would eat a piece of such ani¬ 
mals if they knew it. Oh, consistency, thou art a jewel! 
A lengthy discussion followed the reading of this report 
it being principally directed towards the germ of hog cholera 
in its different phases, as shown by the writings of Drs. Sal 
mon, Billings, Ditmars, etc., all regretting the want of har¬ 
mony among these men in their professional labors. 
Dr. W. H. Gribble next read a paper on “ The Disposal of 
the Dead Viewed in the Light of Modern Science.” The 
writer by extracts, etc., showed the different methods of dis¬ 
posal of dead bodies, with a comparison of their virtues, etc., 
all especially directed towards the facts from a sanitary point 
of view, to make the world healthier for the living. The dis¬ 
cussion brought out the fact that many in the room were in 
favor of cremation, but the “ better half ” of the family would 
not permit it. 
