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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Whereas, The law clearly defines the duties of the Board of Veteri¬ 
nary Examiners as to the examination of applicants not entitled to 
practice by reason of not being in possession of a diploma, or of not 
having been in practice three consecutive years in the State of Illinois; 
Whereas, The law requires that such applicants shall be examined 
in the following subjects, to wit: veterinary anatomy, surgery,, practice 
of medicine, obstetrics, pathology, chemistry, veterinary diagnosis, 
materia medica, therapeutics, physiology, sanitary medicine, and meat 
and milk inspection, and such other branches as the Board may pre¬ 
scribe ; and, 
Whereas, It is well known by the members of this association, that 
the Veterinary Board have entirely ignored the law in making examina¬ 
tions, and have issued licenses to many persons of bad moral character, 
and who were entirely incompetent to practice, having neither practical 
jior literary knowledge of the science of veterinary medicine and 
surgery, thereby enabling such incompetent persons to point to the ex¬ 
amination prescribed by law, and which they are supposed to have 
passed ; and, 
Whereas, Many such applicants of bad moral character, and who 
were known to be incompetent to practice, have been protested, by men 
of good reputation and of known truth and veracity ; and, 
^Whereas, Said Board have overridden said protests, and have know¬ 
ingly violated the letter and spirit of the law, and have made the 
license fee the only qualification upon which to issue a license to prac¬ 
tice ■ therefore 
Resolved , That we. the members of the Illinois Veterinary Medical 
and Surgical Association, do condemn, censure and deplore the conduct 
of said Board of Veterinary Examiners in the violation of their duties 
under the law, and further request their immediate removal from office. 
S. H. Swain, V. S. ) 
N. P. Whitmore, M. D. C. Y Committee. 
S. D. Brown. J 
The treatment of dysentery was then discussed by the mem¬ 
bers, and then the meeting was adjourned until January io and 
ii, 1901, 
W. A. Swain, Secretary. 
WEST VIRGINIA VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCI¬ 
ATION. 
Drs. Petrie, Ruhl and Hershey, consulting veterinarians to 
the State Board of Agriculture, met in Wheeling, and called a 
meeting to organize a State Veterinary Medical Association. 
All the veterinarians of the State were notified of the meeting, 
and all responded in person or by letter, and all are in full 
sympathy with the movement. But owing to business engage¬ 
ments, Dr. O. M. Bradley, Mammington ; Dr. Wm. Stanley, 
Charlestown ; Dr. Geo. W. Kinsey, Wheeling ; Dr. T. E. Gore, 
Clarksburg, were unable to be present. 
