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while all were willing to admit a certain similarity of symp¬ 
toms, they could not accept in toto the conclusions of the es¬ 
sayist. 
“ Swine Diseases in Clinton County,” proved an exception¬ 
ally interesting paper, and the history of the outbreak, with very 
intelligent investigation, made all feel when the story was 
completed that they were better acquainted with the disease 
than ever before. Dr. J. A. McCrank, of Plattsburg, who pre¬ 
pared the paper, is to be congratulated upon this effort, and it 
is to be hoped that he will utilize his talents as a writer and 
observer of veterinary topics. 
“ Indigestion ; Its Right and Wrong Treatment,” was the 
subject of Dr. W. B. Switzer’s contribution, and consisted 
largely in the report of an unusual case where profuse haemor¬ 
rhage followed the withdrawal of a probang, introduced for the 
purpose of removing gas from the stomach, being certain that 
no mechanical injury was inflicted by the instrument. This 
patient recovered, although there seemed no possibility of such 
a termination. This brought out an interesting discussion as 
to the use of probangs and rubber hose, Dr. Kelly detailing the 
facts in regard to his employment of the tube. It had "been 
brought to his attention at the Omaha meeting:, and he had em¬ 
ployed it in many cases with gratifying results, only that his 
informant had inserted the hose through the nostril, and he had 
done so through the mouth. Prof. Law warned the members 
as to the danger of the latter method, as the patient would 
likely bite the hose in two and swallow the distal end. Others 
indulged in the discussion, and made a most interesting* subiect 
of it. * J 
Dr.. Romanza Perkins, of Warsaw, reported two cases of 
paralysis of the throat, giving the symptoms in detail. Scarcely 
a practitioner was present who could not point to many such 
cases occurring in his practice—all believing that they belonged 
to the class of meningitises, and many tracing their cause to im¬ 
properly cured vegetation. 
“Clinical and Histological Observations on a Case of so- 
called' Hermaphroditism in a Horse ” was the title of a paper the. 
joint production of Profs. W. L. Williams and S. H. Gage, and 
proved of much interest to the convention. 
Prof. Pierre A. Fish gave an entertaining discourse entitled 
“ Observations on the Presence of Phosphates in the Urine of 
the Hoise,” exhibiting his methods of detecting them, and 
some improved apparatus used in the analysis. 
