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dressings, I conceived the idea of placing the moss in sacks or bags, quilting 
or tufting them to guard against displacement, and making them into shapes and 
sizes to fit almost any part of the body. After months of experimenting I am at 
last in a position to place before the veterinary profession a complete set of moss 
fomentation pads, which have in my practice proven to afford a most convenient 
and efficacious means of applying fomentations or surgical dressings. The re 
suit of our labors in this direction has been the production of thirteen different 
styles and shapes of moss pads, intended to cover those parts of the body that 
most frequently require surgical attention. 
I will not tire your patience by giving a minute description of all of them, 
but would beg your indulgence for a few moments longer to say a few 
words upon one or two of them. One of the most useful is probably the foot 
pad. It is made in the shape of the foot, and from 1| to inches in thickness. 
Saturated in water or any medicated solution that may be indicated and placed 
under the foot of a horse, kept in place like any other poultice, it will adapt itself 
immediately to the irregularities of the plantar surface and afford an equal dis¬ 
tribution of pressure to the parts, thus preventing in a great measure the forma¬ 
tion of exuberant granulations, so troublesome in all cases where it becomes 
necessary to remove portions of the horny sole. It forms a soft and elastic 
cushion and means of rest, and in laminitis it affords ease and comfort at once, 
it will remain where placed, is perfectly clean and easily re-saturated without 
removal by simply dipping the foot into hot water or any medicated solution, 
which it absorbs quickly and afterwards retains. In my practice the use of lin¬ 
seed poultices for foot troubles has been almost entirely abandoned, for the 
moss pad is cleaner and in my experience far more efficacious. 
The pastern and ankle pads are next to the foot pads most frequently used, 
and that they will adapt themselves to the conformation of the parts and allow 
an equal distribution of pressure is demonstrated by a few specimens that have 
been used and allowed to dry on a horse’s leg. For a full description of these as 
well as the other pads, I would refer you to our pamphlets on Moss Fomentation 
Pads. 
President Huidekoper introduced Dr. J. C. Meyer, Sr., of Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio, who read the following paper: 
COTTON SEED CAKES. 
By J. C. Meyee, Sk. 
The utility attributed to this article, as a food supply for domestic animals, 
is, according to my estimation, worthy of consideration. 
The acknowledged good results obtained, both in hygiene and nutritive 
processes, by feeding oil-cake meal, the residue from flaxseed, seems to have 
paved the way for the consumption of cotton seed cake meal. 
The few accounts I have read as to its efficacy as an aliment were very 
favorable, but my first, and thus far only, acquaintance with it appeared to me 
of sufficient importance to demand more than a superficial notice. 
The reason for the above opinion is based on the suspicion of its having 
caused a disease, with fatal termination, of twenty or more oxen in a Kentucky 
distillery in May, 1889. 
