SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
639 
Alex. Maitland, member of State Board of Agriculture, and 
others. 
The following veterinarians made application and were 
elected to membership : Drs. V. J. Andre, R. H. Carswell, T. 
J. Menestrina, E. J. Netlierton, R. D. Brown, S. R. Shaw, E. B. 
Shaw, and D. F. Ruckey. 
The morning session was devoted to the discussion of State 
legislation. A bill was drafted and a committee appointed to 
push it in the next session of the State legislature. A commit¬ 
tee from the Missouri Valley Veterinary Association was ac¬ 
cepted to assist this committee. 
At 12 o’clock it was moved, seconded and carried to adjourn 
to visit the plant of the St. Rouis Dressed Beef and Provision 
Co., under the direction of Dr. W. S. Cass, where the guests 
were afforded the opportunity to observe the methods of gov¬ 
ernment inspection of cattle, hogs, sheep and calves, and their 
methods of stamping and tagging such meat products. A few 
interesting cases which had been condemned were examined, 
and many other things of interest were seen. 
At 1.30 p. M. the party was conducted to the Delmonico, 
at Manchester Road and King’s Highway, where they were 
banqueted in royal style by the veterinarians of St. Rouis, Dr. 
Chas. Ellis acting as toast-master. 
At 3 o’clock a surgical clinic was held at Dr. R. A. Kain- 
merer’s hospital. Dr. R. C. Moore, of Kansas City, demonstrated 
a new method of administering chloroform by a specially ar¬ 
ranged nose bag, and performed the operation of median neu¬ 
rectomy. 
An operation by Dr. E. J. Netlierton upon a carcinomatous 
growth affecting the eye of a horse. 
Dr. Moore, assisted by Drs. Ellis and Andre, performed the 
aperation of arytenoiderraphy upon a u roarer.” 
An operation of tenotomy for u stringhalt ” and several other 
operations and clinical cases to be diagnosed were presented, 
which lasted until 6 o’clock. 
At 7.30 P. M. the meeting was again called to order, when 
the following papers were presented : Dr. H. Bradley, “ Acute 
Bowel Trouble ” ; Dr. Chas. Ellis, “Needed Veterinary Regis- 
ation in Missouri ” ; Dr. E. Brainard, u Influenza ” ; Dr. T. J. 
Menestrina, “ Canine Distemper ” ; Dr. J. W. Connaway, “ Par¬ 
turient Paresis in the Cow.” 
Under “ Reports of Cases” Dr. J. M. Phillips reported an 
nteresting and unusual case in which the teeth in a dog thirteen 
