SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
879 
Dr. Whitbeck thinks hog cholera can be controlled by 
proper quarantine regulations, and advocates a State law giving 
veterinarians aiithority to issue quarantine. 
Dr. Austin says one of the worst features with which he 
frequently comes in contact is the persistent feeding of dead 
stock to live stock, as practiced by the Germans, especially of 
his locality. 
Discussion closed and Dr. Niles reported for Committee on 
Disease and Treatment. i 
Discussion followed on parturient apoplexy and the Dr. 
Schmidt treatment with pot. iodide. Dr. Talbot tried it twice, 
both cases died. Others have tried it with mixed results. 
In regard to the diarrhoea of calves, Drs. Niles, Drinkwater, 
Austin, Johnston and others think it follows only where the 
cows have been highly fed. 
Dr. Niles has not seen the disease in grass-fed cattle. 
Dr. Brodie asks if Dr. Niles don’t think the disease comes 
as an infection through the umbilical cord ? 
Dr. Niles thinks not in this form. 
Dr. Shiple}^ thinks it may be due to an entire change in 
food during later pregnancy. 
Dr. Hammond saw three herds, twenty cows in each herd ; 
the first three or four calves that came first were healthy, after 
that all the calves died. 
Dr. Whitbeck spoke of the hard growths which form after 
castration in pigs. 
Dr. Johnston says it is an adhesion of the divided cord to 
wound in scrotum ; removes with knife. 
Dr. Stewart thinks these adhesions are the result of the cord 
being divided too close to the testicle. Compared it with cas¬ 
tration of mules ; says the cord is longer in mules than in horses, 
and more of it should be taken off. 
Dr. Shipley thinks the trouble sometimes due to the incision 
being too small and too high. 
Dr. Austin castrates sheep with emasculator ; cuts off the 
bottom of scrotum and both seeds at once with the instrument. 
Dr. Shipley asked about sheep dips. The Fort Collins lime 
and sulphur dip was recommended. 
Dr. Talbot reported good results in a large flock by four 
dippings with a solution of chloro-naptholenm. 
On the use of cathartics. Dr. S. Whitbeck reports good re¬ 
sults from the use of from 3 iv. to 3 vi. of aloes made into bolus 
with sp. terebinth, administered per rectum; empty rectum 
