SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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effect and everybody felt throughout the influence of common 
professional fraternity. 
While each veterinarian in attendance showed by his as¬ 
siduous attention his deep interest in the meeting, and those 
having an opportunity at the close gave free expression to the 
profit it had been to them. One of the most gratifying evidences 
of enduring influence of the meeting is the numerous letters 
which -have been received from members who hurried away 
toward the close of the meeting without opportunity for personal 
expression, but upon reaching home took occasion to express 
their gratitude by writing back. This shows that what they 
heard and saw left an impression which endured until they 
reached home. 
Others who failed to attend have expressed their regrets, and 
some in distant States have already sent assurances of their in¬ 
tention to be present at the meeting at Ithaca next year. 
Review readers, and especially those who attended, may be 
interested in the final outcome of the patients operated upon at 
the clinic. 
The gelding upon which Dr. Corrigan performed caudal 
myectomy for gripping of the reins, was driven home the same 
day, has done well and necessarily ceased to grip the reins. 
The colts castrated by Drs. Cowie and Oay each recovered 
without incident. 
One of the cows spayed by Dr. Jewell made the bad record 
of the clinic. The one which behaved so badly by constantly 
lying in the stocks showed no evil effects from the operation, 
fatted nicely and has been sent to the butcher. The other cow 
which offered no resistance, became infected and died from 
septic peritonitis after three days. Autopsy failed to reveal any 
error of a mechanical kind and the fatality was necessarily re¬ 
ferred to some error in asepsis. 
The vicious mare owned by Dr. Huff, spayed by Dr. Ide, 
and caudal myectomy performed by Dr. Fisher, exhibited no in¬ 
appetence, fever or inconvenience, and was driven home, 90 
miles, in about a week after the meeting. Dr. Huff writes : 
“ The mare is all O. K., no more foolish actions, drives as nice 
as she can, does not squeal any more in the stable nor urinate 
when I speak to her in the barn or on the road . . . am well 
pleased.” 
The vicious mare spayed by Dr. Stone recovered like the 
other without evidence of inconvenience and travelled 60 miles 
home six days later, and like Dr. Huff’s mare is gentle and kind. 
