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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
The Chairman, Dr. Liautard, made a brief report of the lack of success of 
the Committee on Army Legislation. 
Under the head of new business Dr. Liautard offered the following resolution: 
That this Association shall hereafter hold only one meeting yearly, on the 
third Tuesday of September, and that the officers of the Association make the 
necessary arrangements to have said meeting last at least two days. On being 
seconded it was laid over until the next meeting of the Association. 
The afternoon session commenced at 1:30 p. m., when the Chairman asked 
for the reading of essays. 
Dr. Winchester responded with one on the subject of “ Tuberculosis,’’ giving 
in interesting detail the history, mode of development and dangers of the iDges- 
tion of food and flesh from these tubercular subjects. In his excellently prepared 
article he quoted leading authorities abroad and at home, showing the danger and 
means of transmission from animal to man. 
The reading of the paper was followed by remarks from Dr. Miller of New 
Jersey, showing its prevalence in his State and the rapid increase it was making, 
with no law or safeguards to delay its progress and dangers. 
Its existence in New York State was referred to by Dr. J. Faust, who spec¬ 
ially quoted an incident of its rapid destruction of the usefulness of a herd of 
thoroughbreds, likewise referring to the existence of laws in the seventeenth cen¬ 
tury against selling the milk or using the flesh, in Germany, and contrasting the 
absence of such safeguards now. 
Dr. Liautard in a few well chosen remarks called for some means of arousing 
public sentiment to the importance and grave dangers of this disease, and sug¬ 
gested that veterinarians should in their States and respective localities use more 
freely the channels of the public press, to aid them in at least limiting its prog 
ress, and lessening its evils. 
Dr. L. McLean of Brooklyn, reasoning from the admitted and undoubted 
facts of its transmission from animal to man, and the recognized gravity of the 
danger by the veterinarian, suggested that if the milk cans from some of the 
herds infected with tuberculosis were labelled “ consumption at eight cents per 
quart,” it would not be putting it too strong, and would probably arouse the people 
from their state of lethargy. He then painted a word picture of the head of a 
family afflicted with consumption, to whom only an overcrowded hospital for 
such cases could be recommended, while the fruitful cause of his sad affliction 
remained undisturbed and unguarded. 
Dr. Peabody of Rhode Island referred to its extensive inroads in his own 
State, and quoted a case from his own experience of the dire results following 
the use of milk from an infected cow, where she was selected specially for milk 
purposes. Also to its development in cats, when fed tubercular meat from ani¬ 
mals dying from tuberculosis. 
Further remarks were made by Mr. Stockbridge, of the Massachusetts Cattle 
Commission, verifying many of the statements made by the essayist, and report¬ 
ing recommendations made by the State on the subject. 
The further discussion of the subject was entered in by Mr. Sessions of Mas¬ 
sachusetts, and several others, after which a vote of thanks was tendered the 
essayist. 
The President then announced the following Committee on Revision of the 
Constitution and By-Laws—Dr. Miller of New Jersey, Dr. Goentner of Pennsyl 
