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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
and to make an unimportant change in the reading of the certi- 
ncate to facilitate engraving’. 
READING OF PAPERS. 
11 York, read a paper entitled 
Acute Indigestion in the Horse,” and if there were no other 
papers to follow it we presume the members would be discuss 
mg It yet, so interesting did the subject become. Amono- those 
who participated in the discussion were Drs. Whitbeck Wil 
hams Merillat, Nighbert, Shaefer, Baker, Lyford, Cary, Nelson, 
Mitchell, Reynolds, Stewart, and Vincent. The essayist did 
not place eserine among the drugs he usually employed, and the 
pinions expressed by the members were extremely various. 
1 he essayist did not recommend it because he feared the violent 
peristalsis, while Dr. Williams felt that in small doses it could be 
safely used. At this point Dr. Merillat announced that he had 
been experimenting with eserine and had reached the conclu- 
sion that it does not produce increased peristalsis by stimulation 
ot the intestinal nerves, but that it paralyzed the inhibitory fila¬ 
ments and just let the bowels “ run away,” after the manner in 
which a team of horses would act if the lines were severed. He 
said he never could understand how a medicine could depress 
one part of the nervous system and at the same time stimulate 
another, and he was glad his experiments had led him to 
reasonable conclusions. ^ Many other ideas were brought out by 
the discussion. Dr. Whitbeck gives his purgative dose for such 
cases by the rectum, and claims much better results than when 
administered by the stomach. His bolus consists of about six 
drachms of aloes and a small quantity of turpentine. 
Dr. L. A. Merillat, of Chicago, being called upon for his 
Arytenoideraphy,” said that he did not understand 
that he was to furnish a paper on the subject, but promised to 
have It in the Publication Committee’s hands within a week. 
He, however, gave a talk on the operation, giving a history of 
the operation of arytenectomy and the factors which led up to 
the new operation. In the course of his remarks he paid his 
compliments to the “ arytedectomists ” and asserted that while 
they all claimed to remove the arytenoid cartilage, not one ever 
patient live. This brought to his feet Dr. 
Williams, who asserted very emphatically that he had removed 
that structure and his patient recovered. Dr. Law also had re- 
moved it with good results, and Dr. Stalker had done likewise. 
But Dr. Merillat maintained that it was a physiological im- 
