American Veterinary Review. 
OCTOBER, 1898. 
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Poscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. 6^ Unio 7 i St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
RECENT VETERINARY SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
The National and a number of State veterinary medical 
associations held their annual conventions during August and 
September. This is not a new departure in veterinary medi¬ 
cine in this country. The same has been done at about the 
same time for many years. Perhaps the attendance of members 
has been as great on some occasions in the past as it was this 
year, and maybe papers of equal value and even more numerous 
have been presented for their consideration. We very much 
doubt, however, if there ever was a season in which the attend¬ 
ance, interest in the deliberations, merit, and general excellence 
of the papers and discussions all conspired to render associa- 
tional work so successful and satisfying. In two instances a 
leading feature was the introduction of surgical clinics, and in 
the case of the U. S. V. M. A. it was an innovation which caused 
considerable misgivings in the judgment of some of the most 
experienced association men, and they predicted that all man¬ 
ner of ill effects would flow therefrom. In order to be in pos¬ 
session of the pulse of the members who attended this meeting 
the representative of the Review interviewed a majority of 
them, and it does not hesitate to affirm that the opinions ex¬ 
pressed were overwhelmingly favorable to the departure. They 
argued the point in this way : The presentation and discussion 
of dissertations upon State medicine and sanitary topics are 
without doubt a function of the American Veterinary Medical 
Association, as is also the adoption of resolutions based upon the 
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