SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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the owner kept her lying. The next morning she was up before 
I got there. 
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I have had two cases die, and the third one was down for 
fifteen days, then stood up very well for two or three days, but 
now both stifles are affected with atrophy. Have injected 
strychnia and sodium chloride and used electricity, but with 
little benefit. She will only stay up five minutes at a time. 
I had four cases that were down with azoturia, and five that 
remained on their feet. All that were down had badly congested 
kidneys, for you could see the casts under a high-pressure mi¬ 
croscope ; also crystals of uric acid, oxalate of lime and phos¬ 
phate of lime, and plenty of albumen. Now, Dr. Kemp says 
the casts and albumen decrease by using the salt solution. 
I should like some other veterinarians to try this and report 
their experience. Fill the cellular tissue full. I intend to put 
in one gallon in the next case. Yours very truly, 
J. B. Caughey. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
CHICAGO VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
The regular monthly meeting of the society was called to 
order by President Hughes on Monday evening, April 9, in hall 
912, Masonic Temple. Twenty-five members of the society 
were present and a very interesting evening was spent. 
After the regular order of business, Dr. E. A. Merillat pre¬ 
sented the following contribution on 
“ BEEEADONNA.” 
Official belladonna is the root or leaf of atropa belladonna , a 
native plant of continental Europe. In its wild state it thrives 
best amidst rubbish, around old ruins, along old walls, and 
especially when these places are protected by shade. It will 
also grow vigorously when cultivated under favorable condi¬ 
tions, in parts of the temperate zone. Atropa belladonna (com¬ 
monly known as the deadly nightshade) is an herbaceous, 
perennial solanacese, growing to the height of about one metre, 
flowering with beautiful red bell-shaped flowers in July, and 
ripening its reddish berries in September. 
The entire plant contains two alkaloids occurring as salts 
of malic acid, chlorophyl, wax, starch, gum, albumin, lignin, 
and various salts, but the United States and British pharmaco¬ 
poeias demand the use of the leaves and roots only. The leaves 
yield the alkaloid most abundantly, the root, fruit and branches 
