SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
447 
DRUMM'S BULBLESS THERMO-CAUTERY. 
The illustration given herewith is that of the new thermo¬ 
cautery recently invented by Mr. F. Drumm, of 43 Park Street, 
New York City, so well and 
favorably known to the veteri¬ 
nary profession of the country 
through the excellent cautery 
bearing his name, and which is 
used by so many practitioners. 
In the above instrument it is 
the object of the inventor and 
manufacturer to dispense with 
the bulb, since he was frequently 
in receipt of complaints of the de¬ 
generation and bursting of the 
rubber. Here the bulb has been 
supplanted by a pump, which 
works easily and effectively, and 
by those who have employed it a 
decided preference over the bulb is expressed. There is no 
danger of explosion, it is easily kept clean, and it is little liable 
to get out of working order. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MISSOURI VALLEY VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
(Continued from page J/S.) 
Dr. H. G. Patterson, of South St. Joseph, Mo., being called 
upon presented the following paper: 
“THE PRACTICABILITY OF ANTISEPSIS IN VETERINARY 
PRACTICE.” 
This subject may be considered in relation to the favorable 
and unfavorable conditions peculiar to the field of veterinary 
surgery. At a casual glance the subject seems to present the 
former in a very insignificant proportion indeed, and by the 
most careful review of the question we must admit that the lat¬ 
ter constitute a most formidable array. 
The fact that our patients are not amenable to reason consti¬ 
tutes one serious obstacle to the ready application of the tech¬ 
nique of asepsis even in our simpler operations. 
