SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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your REVIEW for the benefit of my brother practitioners. 
E. W. Hammond, D. V. S. (. McGill\ 'pp.) 
IODIDE OF POTASSIUM IN AZOTURIA. 
Pettisville, Ohio, Sept. 28, 1899. 
Editors American Veterinary Review ; 
Dear Sirs :—I wish to say I have tried potassium iodide in 
azoturia with good results. I11 some cases I find benefit by 
joining bromide of potassium with the iodide. I would like to 
hear from others on this treatment. 
Wm. R. Cuarke, V. S. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MISSOURI VALLEY VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
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Dr. H. J. Washburn being next called upon, responded with 
the following paper, entitled 
“ BIOLOGY OF PATHOGENIC MICRO-ORGANISMS.” 
The subject under our consideration is not new, although 
most of the discoveries pertaining to it have been made since 
1881. In the meantime a vast amount of work has been ex¬ 
pended upon investigation into the life history, habitat, and 
pathogenic properties of the various microbes. 
It is certainly unnecessary for me in this company to under¬ 
take to establish the relations existing between certain forms of 
bacteria, and certain diseases, or, in other words, to attempt to 
uphold the bacteria theory. There are plenty of people living 
to-day who scoff at the results of scientific research along this 
line, but I do not expect to find any of them here. We who 
have carefully raised cultures in the laboratory, and have 
watched the effect produced upon laboratory animals, by inoc¬ 
ulation from these cultures, and have then brought our valuable 
assistant, the microscope, to bear upon the tissues of these ani¬ 
mals at post-mortem, are left with but little room for doubting. 
These minute forms are subject to the great rule of life which 
biology teaches us applies to all living things. They are born, 
they grow, they reproduce and die. Like members of the hu¬ 
man family, they affect those of their fellows with whom they 
come in contact, either to their improvement or injury, and tak- 
