SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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THE MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
A meeting of this association was held at 19 Boylston 
Place, Boston, on Wednesday evening 22d ult., when an inter¬ 
esting paper was read by Dr. Jno. jM. Parker, President of 
the association, on “ Milk as a Factor in the Propagation of 
Disease.” A full account will be published in the March 
Review. 
MONTREAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Montreal Veterinary Medical Association met in the 
library of the Faculty of Comparative Medicine and Vet¬ 
erinary Science, on Thursday evening, November 7, with the 
President, Dr. M. C. Baker in the chair. Drs. McEachran, 
Adami, Mills, and Martin were also present. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 
The Secretary was then instructed to convey the thanks of 
the members to Dr. F. H. Osgood, Chairman of the Massa¬ 
chusetts State Board of Cattle Commissioners, for the donation 
of fifty copies of the Report of the Board for 1895- 
Dr. D. McEachran reported the addition to the library of 
Moller’s Surgery, and also Vol. II. of Fleming’s Surgery. 
Mr. Thurston reported a case of obstruction in the thoracic 
portion of the oesophagus of a dog, due to the presence of a 
bone, with symptoms of gastro-intestinal irritation; the ani¬ 
mal dying shortly after admission to the hospital. 
The post mortem revealed an ulcerative condition and a 
perforation through the oesophageal tissues into the aorta, 
death being due to haemorrhage into the stomach through this 
aperture. Dr. McEachran and Dr. Mills reported some 
similar cases from their own experiences. 
Mr. Harri H. Dell presented a carefully prepared paper on 
“ Pyaemia in the Dog,”* and illustrated his remarks by micro¬ 
scopic and macroscopic specimens from a case which recently 
came under his observation. In the discussion following, Dr. 
Adami congratulated the essayist on his contribution to our 
literature on the subject. He also referred to the experiments 
* Published elsewhere in this number of the Review. 
