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culous patients, who are suffering from syphilis, sarcoma, or 
carcinoma. The value of this test in the bovine genus is too 
well known to reiterate here. 
“ Spinal Cocainization. —This committee during the last 
session referred to the probable practicability of spinal cocain¬ 
ization in domestic animal surgery. At that time this method 
of producing anaesthesia was becoming quite popular in human 
hospitals all over the world. In view of the fact that the first 
experiments were performed upon animals we were led to the be¬ 
lief that that procedure was a practicable one for the veterinarian. 
We find, however, that instead of gaining popularity in human 
surgery it is fast losing prestige on account of the danger of 
infecting the spinal cord. The difficulty of overcoming this 
very obstacle being greater in veterinary surgery than in human 
surgery, leads us to conclude that spinal cocainization is not a 
practical operation for the veterinarian. 
“ Annual Meeting of the American Veterinary Medical As¬ 
sociation .—The annual meeting of the American Veterinary 
Medical Association at Atlantic City, on September 3, 4, 5 and 
6, 1901, was one of the most important meetings in its historv. 
Some of the resolutions adopted by that body were as follows : 
[These resolutions were published in the October Review.] 
The regular programme was prolific in papers and discus¬ 
sions of importance to every veterinarian, and the surgical clinic 
is said to have surpassed that of previous years, both as regards 
the number of operations, and for the arrangements for specta¬ 
tors and operators. This committee urges the members of the 
Chicago Veterinary Society to take a more active interest in the 
affairs of the American Veterinary Medical Association, and 
thus contribute to its welfare.”— {To be continued next month.) 
Dr. Hawley, President, announced that the Government 
Bureau of Animal Industry had just issued a bulletin written 
by Dr. D. B. Salmon, Chief of that Bureau, on the relation of 
bovine tuberculosis to man. This bulletin, he stated, is free to 
any one who will write for it, and it contains exhaustive statis¬ 
tics collected by Dr. Salmon, of accidental inoculations, proving 
in his opinion that bovine tuberculosis A communicable to man. 
Under the head of reports from committees, Dr. Quitman, 
chairman of the committee on subscriptions, made the following 
report: 
“ Gentlemen: —The committee appointed to solicit subscrip¬ 
tions for the purpose of entertaining the American Veterinary 
Medical Association at its next session, provided it is secured for 
