SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
207 
The following members responded to roll-call: Drs. C. C. 
Cattanach, J. S. Cattanach, J. S. Cattanach, Jr., Delaney, Kllis, 
Gill, Grenside, Lamkin, Machan, MacKellar and O’Shea. ' r 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap¬ 
proved. 
Reports of Committees. —Dr. Gill, Chairman of Board of 
Censors, stated that as a quorum of that committee was not 
present they could not take action on important business in 
hand ; therefore they had no report to offer to the meeting. 
Dr. Gill reported for the Ways and Means Committee, in the 
absence of their chairman, that Dr. Ivcllman will read a paper 
at the June meeting on “ Multiple Sclerosis of the Brain and 
Spinal Cord of the Dog,” and a second essayist will be procured 
for the same meeting. 
Judiciary Committee (Dr. O’Shea, Chairman) reported that 
the Governor had signed the jury bill and it is now a law. This 
report brought forth the applause of the members present. 
Moved and seconded that the reports of the various commit¬ 
tees be accepted. Carried. 
Reading of Papers. —Dr. J. S. Cattanach read a paper en¬ 
titled “ Bconomy in the Practice of Veterinary Medicine,” as 
follows: 
Mr. President and Gentlemen : 
The subject which I have selected to read before you this 
evening is “ Economy in the Practice of Veterinary Medicine.” 
It ought to be an interesting one, and I fear that I cannot do it 
justice, having been more than usually busy for the last two 
months, and have not had the time to devote to the paper that 
I ought to have had. I will, however, endeavor to bring to 
your notice some of my observations and experiences during a 
continuous practice extending nearly to forty years. By using 
the word “ economy ” I do not mean to convey that I advocate 
the purchasing of your drugs in “job lots,” or at a bargain 
counter, but I do hope to advocate a method by which you will 
be positive that the medicines which you administer to your 
patients will be pure, unadulterated and according to the Phar¬ 
macopoeia of the United States, or the pharmacopoeia of what¬ 
ever country you may select. 
If the drug does not contain its full active properties, the prac¬ 
titioner does not get the expected result, and may have to give 
repeated doses to obtain that result. It surely would be econo¬ 
my to have the drug of its proper strength to start with, so that 
the one dose would suffice. 
