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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
read by Dr. Hughes, which embodied the subject of “ Azoturia” • 
“ Methylene Blue in the Treatment of Catarrh » ; “ Surgical 
Operations on Aged Patients ” ; “ Nocard’s Discovery as to the 
Origin of ‘White Scour’”; “Vaccination for Dog Distem¬ 
per; “ Chloretone in Experimental Surgery”; A New Horse¬ 
shoe Pad to Prevent Nail-Pricks”; “Anthrax in Cook Co 
Ill. ” ; and “ A New Float Patented by Mr. Fehr.” 
“ Azoturia .—The subject of azoturia is a particularly im- 
. year, and the cases met in city 
practice are uncomfortably numerous as well as very fatal. The 
subject is brought up by this committee more for the purpose of 
introducing a discussion with hopes of determining the advance¬ 
ment made in its therapeutics. Potassium iodide has been 
referred to during the past two years as a potent remedy, but 
recent observations have shown that it possesses no special vir¬ 
tue. . As far as this committee has been able to learn the thera¬ 
peutics of azoturia is still unsatisfactory, and that beyond attend¬ 
ing to the comforts of the patient but little can be accomplished. 
In tact, the mild cases recover without medical attention, while 
the acute ones succumb in spite of any form of treatment. 
Members of this society who have suggestions to offer at 
this tune will confer a valuable favor upon this committee if 
they will present them at this meeting. 
“ Methylene Blue in the Treatment of Catarrh.— It is evi¬ 
dent from medical literature that methylene blue has great value 
lr f. tre M men t of catarrh of the upper air passages, when ap- 
p le locally to the diseased membrane. Irrigations are made 
three tunes a day, the strength of 2 gm. to the liter, injected 
into the nasal cavities. In horses suffering from catarrh in the 
sub-acute form its efficacy at once becomes apparent, as has been 
shown by several recent trials. Except for the stain it leaves 
on w lite nostrils, this remedy, we believe, will become popular 
m equine medicine wherever it is put into use. 
Sui gical Operations on Aged Patients. —Investigations of 
several modern veterinarians bring out the rather surprisino- 
statement that old patients bear out the results of capital opera¬ 
tions much better than young ones ; that age is never to be re¬ 
garded as a contraindication for operative treatment, the other 
things being equal. Surgical wounds in old patients under fav¬ 
orable conditions, will heal promptly, but rather slower than in 
the young, but age has never been found to entirely prevent re¬ 
generation. A particular feature to remember about operat¬ 
ing upon aged animals is, that they are more susceptible to 
