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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
The January meeting was called to order by President Dr. 
Pearson on the ioth, at 8.30, with the following members of 
the profession present : Drs. S. J. J. Harger, Charles Williams, 
Wm. Ridge, W. G. Shaw, B. M. Underhill, H. D. Hackler, 
Leonard Pearson, M. W. Drake, E. M. Ranck, J. D. Houlds- 
worth, C. J. Marshall, W. L. Rhoads, S. McClure, W. H. Hos¬ 
kins. After the roll-call and reading of the minutes of the 
previous meeting, Dr. Hoskins, as chairman of the Committee 
on Legislation, made a report, urging all to make a concerted 
movement to assist in the gaining of rank for the army veteri¬ 
narian. Further plans were discussed for raising from the 
profession in Pennsylvania the $200 pledged by the Keystone 
to aid in this work. The annual meeting of the State Veteri¬ 
nary Medical Association was talked of and a committee of 
three (Drs. W. L. Rhoads, J. D. Houldsworth and W. G. Shaw) 
appointed to represent the K. V. M. A. in the entertainment of 
the State Association. Dr. J. J. Repp, having left the city, 
Dr. J. W. Marshall was appointed to act on the Programme 
Committee. Dr. S. J. J. Harger was introduced, and gave a 
very interesting talk 011 “Cribbing, its Causes and Cure.” He 
spoke of numerous mechanical methods for preventing this vice 
and fully described the operative treatment for its alleviation 
or cure, viz., the resection of the eleventh pair of cranial nerves, 
or the resection of the sterno-hyoid and sterno-thyroid muscles. 
He reported four cases operated upon—first, resection of two 
muscles in front of neck ; case improved but not cured ; second, 
roan gelding, same operation, improved but not cured ; third 
and fourth cases, resection of muscles and spinal accessory 
nerves ; this has proved a cure in each case up to present time ; 
while operation has not been done long, cannot say what the 
final result will be. A vote of thanks was extended Dr. Harger 
for his very able and instructive talk. Dr. Pearson reported 
three cases, which had been operated upon in Professor Dieker- 
hofFs clinic of Berlin, by the resection of muscles only. He 
says the double operation is original with Dr. Harger. Dr. 
Pearson now reported a series of cases in southern portion of 
the State which caused the death of 150 to 250 cattle on 60 or 
70 farms ; they die in convulsions in from four to twelve hours 
after first noticed ; the trouble led them to diagnose it as corn 
stalk disease, so far as known in this country; it is said to kill 
ten to twenty thousand in Kansas every year. Dr. Rhoads and 
Dr. Ridge each reported cases very similar to those reported by 
Dr. Pearson. Dr. Ridge continued his report of abdominal ab- 
