SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
51 
The evening session was called to order at 8 o’clock, the 
President in the chair. 
The Committee on Legislation made their report. 
Moved by Dr. Smith, and supported by Prof. Grange, 
that the report be accepted. Carried. 
Considerable discussion arose as to the adoption of the 
bill as drafted, after which it was moved by Dr. Dell, and 
supported by Prof. Grange that it be taken up by sections. 
Carried. 
After the necessary amendments were made, it was moved 
by Dr. Hawkins, and supported by Dr. Dell, that the bill be 
adopted as a whole as amended. Carried. 
Drs. W. W. Thorburn, E. A. A. Grange, J. Hawkins and 
G. W. Dunphy were appointed a committee to attend to 
and endeavor to secure the passage of the bill by the Legis¬ 
lature. The committee were authorized to draw on the 
funds of the Association not to exceed one hundred dollars. 
The election of officers resulted as follows : President, Dr. 
Geo. W. Dunphy, Quincy; ist Vice-President, Dr. W. W. 
Thorburn, Lansing; 2d Vice-President, Dr. J. C. Whitney, 
Hillsdale; 3d Vice-President, Dr. R. E. Reycraft, Detroit • 
Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. Wm. Jopling, Owasso. 
Board of Directors : Drs. J. Hawkins, Detroit; S. Brenton, 
Detroit; J. W. Ferguson, Bay City; J. F. Smith, Adrian; J. 
W. Brodie, Pontiac ; and C. W. Stowe, Saginaw. 
Dr. G. W. Dunphy took the chair, and thanked the Asso¬ 
ciation for the honor it had conferred upon him. 
Prof. E. A. A. Grange, under the title of “Recent Thera¬ 
peutic Experiments in Treating Ringbones and Spavins,” 
gave a short history of some experiments he had made. 
With the hypothesis that exostoses were deficient in the 
normal constitutents of bone, and that this deficiency ac¬ 
counted somewhat for the difficulty found in treating success¬ 
fully many cases of bone disease, he had administered the 
salts of bone in the proportion in which they occur in bone, 
and with very satisfactory results, and although it could not 
be claimed a specific, the success attained so far warranted a 
continuance of this line of treatment. 
