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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
by amendments and additions, and by so doing obtain a vet¬ 
erinary law, not only for our own individual interests, but for 
the benefit of the live stock and live stock owners of one of 
the best States in the Union. 
Let us as graduates be liberal, not claim that our alma 
maters are infallible, and that we should be exempt from that 
which we demand of others, but rather let us deny that any 
man, graduate or no graduate, should be entitled to practice 
in this great commonwealth unless he has the respect of his 
fellow men, some knowledge of gentlemanly, practical ethics, 
and is willing to undergo the examination prescribed by the 
State law. This will remove from practice that sword of 
sarcasm, often used by fellow practitioners, that your college 
was not as good as mine. At the annual meeting to be held 
in Columbus, let us see every old member present the name 
of a new applicant, and let us see so many present that the 
old officers will experience an old-fashioned veterinary re¬ 
vival, to the joy and possibly the proposition of a banquet to 
all. 
Wm. H. Gribble, D.V.S., Sec. 
ILLINOIS STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The 13th annual meeting of this association was held in 
the Sherman House, Chicago, on November 30 and 31. 
The meeting was called to order by the President, M. 
Wilson, M.R.C.V.S. 
On roll call by the Secretary a large number of the mem¬ 
bers responded to their names. 
The President’s address was listened to attentively and 
was pregnant with facts and useful suggestions. i 
The following papers were then read and liberally dis¬ 
cussed : 
My first Csesarean Section in the Cow, by Dr. A. Babb, 
Springfield, Ill.; Pneumonia, by Dr. S. S. Baker; Some 
Diseases of the Hock, by Dr. J. Martin, Kankakee; Sound¬ 
ness and Lameness, by Dr. A. G. Alverson; Bovine Tuber- 
