SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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Atchison, of Brooklyn, N.Y.C.V.S., ’87, and H. R. Rider, of 
Deposit, N.Y.S.V.S., ’98—which were favorably recommended 
by the censors and duly elected. 
Dr. James Law, of Ithaca, read a very carefully prepared 
paper on “Glanders and its Relation to Mortality,” which eli¬ 
cited general discussion, many instances being cited where 
recovery had taken place. Dr. Berns, of Brooklyn, related the 
instance of a large stable in his clientele where a horse devel¬ 
oped glanders, and the owners directed that the entire stable be 
inalleined, which resulted in the detection of 28 head. The 
owners were satisfied to have them destroyed, but were per¬ 
suaded to isolate them and await developments. Consequently 
an unoccupied stable was procured, and at the expiration of a 
month the horses were again tested, when five failed to react. 
At a subsequent malleination they again failed, when they were 
returned to their owners’ stable, and put back into service. 
Another lot failing to react, went through the same process, 
and were sent back to their owners. In this manner every 
animal, save one (which died of colic) was either cured by mal- 
lein, recovered spontaneously, or were simply the victims of an 
unreliable preparation of the serum. 
Dr. Roscoe R. Bell, of Brooklyn, then read a paper entitled 
“ Nail Wounds of the BYet of Horses,” which dealt largely with 
the therapeutics of such traumatisms, adhering strictly to asep¬ 
sis as the fundamental principle, but advocating many points 
of surgical expediency and neatness. The discussion brought 
forth the impression that probably a majority favored the per¬ 
oxide of hydrogen in such conditions. 
Dr. W. L. Williams, of Ithaca, gave interesting “ Notes on 
Tooth Tumors,” which were the result of painstaking observa¬ 
tion and studious investigation, creating much interest among 
the members. 
Dr. George H. Berns, of Brooklyn, edified the society by 
bringing forward the ill-understood but fascinating subject of 
“ Osteo-porosis,”* treating it from the standpoint of an extensive 
practical experience, and basing deductions upon clinical ob¬ 
servations. These had led him to believe it dependent upon 
stable miasm, and he had been getting good prophylactic re¬ 
sults by removing floors, substituting new soil, with an air space 
under the floor, while he has combatted the disease in patients 
with more or less success through changing the climate by turn¬ 
ing the horse to pasture in the country. 
* To be found elsewhere in this issue. 
