SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
875 
EVENING SESSION. 
The meeting of the California State Veterinary Medical As¬ 
sociation re-convened at 7 p. M. 
The meeting was called to order by the President, Dr H. A. 
Spencer, who called upon the president-elect to take the chair. 
The new President, Dr. C. B. Orvis, upon taking the chair 
delivered a few appropriate and well-chosen remarks, and as he 
was going to act in the capacity of an entertainer, he requested 
Dr. Spencer to take the chair for the rest of the evening. 
Under the head of reading .of papers, etc., and discussions, 
the chair called upon Dr. C. B. Orvis to entertain the meeting, 
which he did by reporting three cases of intestinal obstructions 
from the formation of tumors and abscesses in the sublumbar 
region. 
The reports were very interesting and instructive, and a very 
animated discussion followed their reading. The chair closed 
the discussion with a few appropriate remarks. 
Dr. W. E. Wadams was then called upon to entertain the 
meeting, which he did by offering an instructive and exhaustive 
paper on “Canine Distemper.” The essayist described the dis¬ 
ease in all its forms, giving the different symptoms, and the 
different methods of combating same. He also thoroughly de¬ 
scribed the different complications that might arise. 
The reading of the paper was followed by a lively discussion, 
which was participated in by Drs. Maclay, Archibald, Orvis, 
Eddy, Fox, Pierce, P'abbi, O’Rourke, and Jackson. The chair 
closed the discussion with a few remarks, and then called for 
reports of peculiar cases. 
The secretary reported a case of a cow whose milk con¬ 
tained so much acid that it was for all practical purposes useless. 
He said the cow had been changed from one food to another 
without changing the character of the milk. He also reported 
a few cases of what he supposed to be chronic pharyngitis, and 
he said that in some localities the disease seemed to be very 
prevalent in the late summer and fall of the year. 
