SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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After some discussion, the chair put the resolution, which 
was carried. 
Dr. Rogers then showed an interesting specimen of partial 
fracture of the sixth cervical vertebrae. The horse had been 
found in the morning with one of his hind feet caught in his 
halter rope. He was afterward unable to lift his head more 
than about eighteen inches from the ground. He was killed 
two months afterward, when the bones were found in the con¬ 
dition showed (fracture of lateral processes). 
John M. Parker, Secretary. 
The regular monthly meeting of the Massachusetts Veterin¬ 
ary Association was held at 19 Boylston Place, on Wednesday, 
December 17th, 1893, at 7.30 P.M., the President, Dr. Burr, in 
the chair. 
The members present were Drs. Becket, Bryden, Burr, 
Carlton, Emerson, Howard, LaBaw, Marshal, Gsgood, Parker, 
Rogers, Sherman, Winchester and Winslow. 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, Dr. 
Osgood said he wished to make a correction ; in answer to Dr. 
Simpson’s question about the appointment of inspectors he had 
said that the original appointment lay with the cities and towns. 
The inspector need not be a veterinary surgeon. If he was not 
satisfactory to the board, however, he could be removed by 
them, and another inspector appointed at a salary of not over 
$500 per annum. With this correction, the minutes were 
adopted. 
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The secretary then read a letter from the new Veterinary 
Magazine , asking the support of the association. 
Dr. Osgood moved that the new journal get copies of the 
society proceedings as well as the old journals, the American 
VETERINARY Review and the Journal of Comparative Medicine. 
Dr. Carlton then read an interesting paper on “ Homoeopathy 
as applied to Veterinary Medicine.” In the discussion which 
followed, Dr. Winchester said that he had never “ hung up his 
