494 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Chairman, Dr. A. T. Peters, giving a detailed account of the 
statistics which they had been enabled to collect from veteri¬ 
narians throughout the United States. For the past few years 
the chairmen of this committee have pointed out that the re¬ 
ports were without value on account of their lack of thorough¬ 
ness. This year they were as bad as ever. For instance, in the 
State of New York, it was the conclusion of the committee from 
information (or lack of it) that neither glanders, osteo-porosis nor 
strangles had existed in the State during the past year, while it 
is well known that osteo-porosis at least is always existent in 
that commonwealth, and there were hundreds of cases there 
during the past year. The Chairman moved that such portions 
of the report as dealt with general statistics be eliminated from 
the records as being worthless and misleading, and only that 
portion retained which dealt with certain outbreaks of rabies and 
osteo-porosis. A general discussion resulted as to the best 
means of securing a valuable report from this committee and it 
was decided to call the attention of the committee to their in¬ 
structions of the 1897 meeting, wherein it was thought best to 
confine their investigations to one or two diseases, and rather give 
interesting and valuable data concerning them than to attempt 
the collection of statistics as to the exact area of territory in¬ 
fected. The President explained that the Federal Government 
could scarcely accomplish that, and such an effort on the part 
of this association must of necessity be futile. After vote, the 
report of 1898, except as before mentioned, was stricken from 
the minutes. Osteo-porosis was reported to be very prevalent 
in Tennessee by Drs. Fenimore, of Knoxville, and Plaskett, of 
Nashville. Dr. Cary suggested a method of treatment which had 
given him some good results—the injection of barium chloride 
intravenously in drachm doses once a week, and it should be ac¬ 
companied by good care and food, and should be withheld if 
fever be present, as it is apt to kill if there is much elevation of 
temperature. Dr. Cary also spoke of post-mortems he had made 
on dogs dead of rabies, in which lesions were found in the 
liver, which was invariably hypercemic. 
After announcing the banquet for Wednesday night the 
Convention adjourned until 10 A. M., but the members were in¬ 
vited to assemble at 1615 Capital Avenue, to witness some 
operations. 
At the appointed hour on the morning of the 7th a large 
number of the members and visitors met at the designated place, 
which comprised a large barn and yard for casting. The first 
