SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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convention assembled in Milwaukee this 20th clay of February, 
1912, that we, the representatives of the veterinary profession 
of Wisconsin, disapprove of the action of the Wisconsin Live 
Stock Sanitary Board, and pledge our allegiance to the United 
States Live Stock Sanitary Association in its efforts to check 
the increase of tuberculosis, and further pledge our support of 
any measure looking to the adoption of practices in Wisconsin 
which shall harmonize with the views of the United States Live 
Stock Sanitary Association.” 
The following officers were elected: President, Dr. H. P. 
Clute, Milwaukee; vice-president, Dr. J. S. Atkinson, Marin¬ 
ette; secretary, Dr. W. W. Arzberger, Watertown; treasurer, 
Dr. J. Hermshein, Pleasant Prairie; trustee, Charles Schmitt, 
Dodgeville. 
W. W. Arzberger, 
Secretary. 
ADVANTAGES OF HYPODERMIC ANESTHESIA. 
Lanphear, in the International Journal of Surgery, enumer¬ 
ates these as follows: 
Absence of Nausea. —After operation there is absence of 
nausea and vomiting—a most important thing, especially in ab¬ 
dominal surgery. 
Abolition of Pain. —Post-operative pain is conspicuous by 
its absence. Patients often pass a most comfortable night instead 
of suffering intensely and sometimes sleep much of the first 
twenty-four hours succeeding operation, awakening next morn¬ 
ing with a demand for food. 
Early Feeding. —The desire for food may usually be grati¬ 
fied (except, of course, in operation on the stomach and other 
special work where peristalsis is objectionable), as the secretions 
are not checked enough to interfere with digestion. This is of 
great import, particularly when the patient has become weak¬ 
ened before operation and when there has been unusual loss of 
blood. 
