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CORRESPONDENCE. 
of the A. V. M. A. Its minutes and papers have appeared in 
the proceedings of the A. V. M. A., and were printed at the 
expense of the latter, its meetings were held at the same time 
and place, and it has been granted and has accepted all the 
rights and prerogatives of a section. The same is true of the 
Association of Experiment Station Veterinarians, and the Jour¬ 
nal has approved the relation. So the Journal approves of sec¬ 
tional work in the Association of Faculties, of Experiment Sta¬ 
tion Veterinarians, and thinks the sanitarians competent to run 
a section for a day or so, but deems the practitioners unfit to 
undertake anything of that nature. The Journal avers that 
these common everyday practitioners must have larger and 
longer doses of sanitary medicine, whether they desire it or not. 
We have a three-days meeting. Why not group the subjects 
together, put them in sections, have a half day of sanitary med¬ 
icine, then a like time to veterinary education or to general 
practice? Let each paper have its time and duration fixed in 
the programme, and then carry it out faithfully, so that anyone 
interested in a given topic would know when to be present. 
Have it understood that while work of a certain kind is going 
on those who do not feel directly interested may attend or not, 
just as they please. They will probably do that anyhow, but 
the other party had as well not become irritated over it. If, 
while a discussion is taking place on some sanitary subject, a 
few general practitioners wish to go out quietly and congregate 
in a group elsewhere and talk over or illustrate some operation 
which may directly benefit them, whose affair is it? So far as 
known to the writer, the practitioners have paid the bills for 
the clinics. The practitioners have at no time entered any 
protest against the sanitarians meeting where they please, 
while clinics are going on, and discussing any topic they like. 
The question is not one of sectional work—we already have it. 
It is not a question of whether the general practitioners know 
enough about sanitary medicine or not—that is a matter of 
their own business. It is not a question of sufficient time to 
properly carry out our programme, for it can readily be done in 
the time now consumed. It is a question of definitely group¬ 
ing and fixing the time for each group and each paper in the 
group, and permitting the sections and sectional work already 
formed to go about their work promptly and methodically and 
permitting existing sections to carry on their work concur¬ 
rently or consecutively as may be desired by those sections. 
The familiar “ hashed ” programme with tuberculosis, colic 
