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perience are limited. For the most approved methods of per¬ 
forming many of the recognized operations, the association will 
be favored by surgical clinics conducted by some of the most 
celebrated American surgeons, illustrating such procedures as 
securing animals for surgical purposes ; demonstrating various 
methods of producing anaesthesia ; castrating the mare and the 
cryptorchid; arytenoidectomy; median neurectomy; caudal 
myotomy (straightening, setting up, docking), and a number of 
operations upon the dental apparatus. 
In the section of sanitary medicine, a subject which is 
rapidly forcing itself upon the profession and public will be 
brought forward in a systematic and comprehensive manner. 
Meat inspection is now too thoroughly established nationally to 
leave any fear that its extension is not to go steadily onward, 
until every municipality will include in its necessary officers 
one or more veterinarians entrusted with the important duties 
of guarding the purity of the animal products consumed by its 
citizens. For such duties the profession is in duty bound to 
furnish well-equipped men, and the natural and recognized 
source of all authority on the questions involved is the National 
Association, and the occasions for the discussion of the many 
intricate problems connected with it are at her annual gather¬ 
ings. In the great West, where the bulk of the meat is prepared 
for the foreign market, the question is at its perfection, the men 
of experience in the specialty are there, and no occasion should 
be so fruitful of good results as the coming meeting in Omaha. 
In times gone by, notably a few years ago, many of the 
members engaged in private practice had good cause to com¬ 
plain that subjects in which they were directly interested were 
neglected to make room for the discussions upon tuberculosis, 
pleuro-pneumonia, Texas fever, etc., which were practically 
endless. There was less cause for complaint at Nashville than 
at previous meetings, not that sanitary subjects were neglected, 
but that by holding night sessions, and by a happy dispatch of 
business, room was made for all the sections. This year there 
will be many papers of direct interest to those who are the 
