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PIERRE A. FISH. 
Meantime the horse will do business at the old stand, and be 
glad to see his true friends. 
RECENT ASSOCIATION MEETINGS. 
The Review devoted the major portion of its October num¬ 
ber to reports of association meetings, international, national, 
state, and local, and to run over the fifty-two pages of u Society 
Meetings ” shows a very active state of the profession. The 
great outpouring of veterinarians at the meetings in New York 
City was most gratifying, and it gave an impetus to interest in 
associational work. The papers were of a high order, many in¬ 
volving a large amount of original research, and the only regret- 
able feature was that so many had to be read by title and referred 
to the Publication Committee. While they in this form make 
valuable additions to American veterinary literature, many 
points of interest would be brought out in a discussion from 
such an assemblage of representative professional men. The 
Review is always pleased to receive the reports of veterinary 
association meetings, and will continue to give them all the 
prominence that is possible through this medium. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
SOME THEORIES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ANTISEPSIS * 
By Pierre A. Fish, N. Y. State Veterinary CoeeEGE, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Introduction .—Progress in all lines of science involves 
change. In the use of antiseptics there isj perhaps, as much or 
more conservatism shown toward the intrcduction of new 
agents, than in most other scientific branches. Agents which 
have been in use for a long time, with quite uniformly good 
results, are hard to displace. Operators, who have been ac¬ 
customed to the technique and with a long experience of a par¬ 
ticular antiseptic, are loath to change. 
* The substance of this paper was presented at the meeting of the State Veterinary So¬ 
ciety in New York, 1898. 
