SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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and while the proposition was received with favor, it was thought 
advisable for our officers to use their energies to have a good at¬ 
tendance of our members gO’ to Indianapolis this coming summer. 
It was moved and seconded that the secretary send out a let¬ 
ter prior to the A. V. M. A. meeting urging all Michigan vet¬ 
erinarians to attend, especially to show our appreciation of our 
fellow member, Dr. S. Brenton, president of the A. V. M. A. 
Election of officers resulted as follows: President, Dr. Jud- 
son Black; first vice-president, Dr. H. M. Armour; second vice- 
president, R. H. Irwin; third vice-president, H. H. Clement; sec¬ 
retary-treasurer, W. A. Ewalt, Mt. Clemens. Drs. H. L. Schuh, 
E. B. Cavell, J. E. Ward, G. D. Gibson, J. J. Joy and A. Mc- 
Kercher were elected a Board of Directors. 
On a motion made and supported Dr. S. Brenton was the 
unanimous choice of the association for member of the State 
Board to succeed himself, which was carried. 
Upon motion, Dr. C. C. Mix was selected and named as the 
representative of this association to the meeting of the A. V. 
M. A. at Indianapolis week of August 26, 1912. 
Dr. E. B. Cavell was called upon to give his observations of 
the symptoms of infectious anaemia. This subject was discussed 
by Prof. Williams, Dr. Wilson, Dr. Giltner and Prof. Lyman. 
Some discussion of the tuberculosis problem was instituted by 
Prof. Marshall, Mr. Hinds and Dr. Dunphy. 
Meeting called to order by Second Vice-President Cavell, 
7.30 p. m. February 6, and the tuberculosis discussion was re¬ 
sumed by Prof. Marshall, who advised using more care in testing 
and taking more temperatures. 
Hog cholera was discussed and the serum treatment was 
. dwelt on at considerable length. It is not a curative agent, but a 
preventive. p ~ \ 
Dr. Dunphy announced that those of the members who de¬ 
sired to see the tuberculin injection into those cattle that were 
to be tested could now retire to the barns. 
The major part of the forenoon of February 7 was devoted 
to the report of the Committee on Diseases. State Veterinarian 
' Giltner said that glanders proved to be in nearly all' reported 
cases as a false alarm. Mallein test was most generally used, 
and spoke of two tests, agglutination and precipitation. He ad¬ 
vised veterinarians when in doubt to 1 send a bottle of blood from 
suspected case to the laboratory for test. Infectious abortion is 
quite widespread; the germ has been isolated in several states, 
Michigan included. 
