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practice, but I should be very glad if our members would make 
some blood counts of properly stained specimens. No one has 
mentioned the length of time these patients live. I will sav in 
human subjects they seldom live longer than three or four years 
the splenic-myelogenous form being much more chronic than 
the lymphatic variety. Persons suffering from Hodgkin’s dis¬ 
ease may live an indefinite period. 
. D . r ■ Stewart: By provision of the By-Haws the next meet¬ 
ing should be held m this city, but in compliment to our friends 
from bt. Joseph, who have so generously turned out to attend 
this meeting, I move that when we adjourn that the By-Laws be 
suspended and we adjourn to meet in St. Joseph. 
The motion was duly seconded and carried. 
Dr. Heck spoke in regard to subscription to the various 
ye ennary journals. He stated that all the veterinarians in St 
Joseph, except two, are subscribers to these journals, a claim 
which cannot be made by any other city. 
On motion by Dr. Forbes a vote of thanks was extended to 
the essayists of the evening. 
It was moved and carried that a vote of thanks be extended 
to the Kansas City Veterinary College for the use of its rooms 
tor this meeting-. 
On motion the association adjourned. 
A clinic, as a new departure, was arranged for this meeting 
with a view to attracting more busy practitioners, and those who 
witnessed it pronounced it a success, and we are encourao- e d to 
continue them as a part of our programme. It does not matter 
low simple the operation may be we are always finding a better 
way to do it. By seeing our brother practitioners operate we 
ge new ideas which can be had in no other way. 
The operations performed were as follows: Neurectomy 
lovver operation, Dr. Moore; operation for cure of cribbing habit’ 
excision of a portion of the sterno-thyro-hyoideus muscle and 
resection of the motor branch of the spinal accessory nerve sup¬ 
plying the sterno-maxillaris muscle, anaesthesia being produced 
by intravenous injection of chloroform, Dr. Moore ; peroneal 
tenotomy for strmghalt, Dr. Simpson ; cunean tenotomy for 
spavin lameness, Dr. Patterson ; peroneal tenotomy, Dr. Steel • 
ovariotomy, bitch, Dr. Moore; ovariotomy, bitch, Dr. Black.’ 
W. A. Heck, Secretary. 
. RRCEistt investigations have shown that dairy cattle supply¬ 
ing Chicago with milk show a high percentage of tuberculosis. 
