SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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rules of the society be suspended for the evening and the mem¬ 
bers voted on by the society as a whole. The licentiate record 
for the State of Illinois was referred to to ascertain whether or 
not the applicants were duly registered. The question was 
brought up as to whether or not it was essential that a veteri¬ 
narian be registered in order to be eligible to membership. It 
was asseited and admitted that there was nothing in the con¬ 
stitution of the society to that effect, but as one member stated 
that according to the present laws of the State of Illinois, any 
person practicing veterinary medicine in the State of Illinois 
without being first duly licensed and registered, is a criminal, 
it was decided that in order to prevent criminals from being 
admitted to membership iu the society they should first be duly 
registered as licensed veterinarians. It then became necessary 
to refer to the records of the Secretary to ascertain whether the 
vouchers for the applicants were in good standing in the society. 
u In good standing ” was defined as having their dues paid to 
and including December 31st, 1901. The applicants passed on 
were as follows : Dr. Albert Rudberg, vouchers Ryan and 
Campbell, admitted ; Dr. Jeffrie, vouchers Walker and Baker, 
admitted ; Dr. Smelley, vouchers Quitman and E. Merillat, ad¬ 
mitted ; Dr. Frederick W. Buecher, vouchers Merillat and 
Walker, admitted ; Dr. Miller (one of his vouchers not in good 
standing) held over till next meeting. 
Dr. Allen then read the following paper on the subject of 
“ RESULTS OE NEUROTOMY AND WHY.” 
“ This paper was written principally for the purpose of bring¬ 
ing out a discussion on the results of this well-known operation 
and the reasons why these results occur. The operation, ! think, 
we all perform in substantially the same manner, some stand¬ 
ing, aided by a local anaesthetic, others by casting or on a table. 
For my own part, I prefer the latter. The three most common 
neurectomies are the median, the high and the low. I will 
take the operations in that order. 
“ Median .—Median neurectomy I have performed but sel¬ 
dom, as I consider the cases calling for it are very few. The 
bad results of this operation in my own practice are none, and 
I have only observed one, that of a quittor I was called to oper¬ 
ate on and which refused to heal at all, although the wound 
was to all appearances perfectly healthy. I was unaware at the 
time I operated that median neurectomy had been performed a 
year before for tendon lameness. I was obliged to destroy the 
