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SOCIETY MEETINGS 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MASSACHUSETTS VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The regular meeting of the Massachusetts Veterinary Association was held in 
Boston September 28th, 1887, at 7:30 o’clock, P. M., President John S. Saunders 
in the chair. 
There were present Drs. Blackwood, Lee, Marshall, Howard, Osgood, Peters, 
Saunders, Smith, Stickney, Winchester, K. Winslow, and Cattle Commissioner 
A. W. Clieever. 
On motion of Dr. Winchester the reading of minutes of the previous meet¬ 
ing was dispensed with, and the consideration of certain new business before the 
Association and adoption of a revised code of ethics were laid over to the next 
meeting, to be held October 26th. 
The Executive Committee reported they were awaiting the presentation of 
credentials of the following gentlemen who had applied for membership, viz.: J. 
C. Fogg, V.S.; Wm. Ferguson, M.R.C.V.S.; Wm. H. Hitchings, D.V.S.; C. P. 
Lyman, F.R.C.V.S.; Roland Lord, M.R.C.V.S.; ^Kenelin Winslow, M.D.V., 
and could not report on the applications until the credentials were sent in for ex¬ 
amination. 
The meeting then listened to the following paper by A. Peters, M.R.C.V.S., 
of Boston: 
Infectious Bovine Pneumonia. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen ;—I do not know that it is a matter of record 
that there is an infectious pneumonia affecting the bovine race, and I therefore 
thought that it would be interesting to you to read you a few facts concerning it. 
Last summer I was requested by the Cattle Commissioners of the State of New 
Hampshire to repair at once to South Lyndsboro, in Hillsboro county, to investi¬ 
gate an epizootic of pneumonia among the young cattle in Hillsboro and Cheshire 
counties. 
I left Boston Friday morning, July 29th, for South Lyndsboro, proceeding at 
once to the farm of a Mr. Levi Spalding. 
Mr. Spalding manages a large tract of land, comprising what was formerly a 
number of farms, his principal pasture covering most of a large hill known as 
Lyndeboio Mountain. During the summer and spring a number of deaths have 
occurred among the cattle pastured on Lyndeboro Mountain, from what I should 
designate as an infectious pneumonia, which attacked yearlings chiefly. The 
disease appeared early last spring, before the cattle were turned out to pasture, 
among some cows which came from Concord, Mass.; one died then, and another 
soon after they were turned out; three others which were sick recovered. 
Since then the deaths have been confined to yearlings, I believe, seven of 
which died; there were also in this pasture (August 1st, 1887,) three yearlings 
which were sick, but they seemed to be recovering. I examined two of these: 
No. 1.—Red yearling heifer, temperature 102°, moist rales on the right side, 
no marked dullness on percussion. 
No. 2.—Yearling steer, red, with white face, temperature 103°, other symp¬ 
toms similar to No. 1. 
