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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
KEYSTONE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The regular monthly meeting of the Keystone Veterinary 
Medical Association was held on the evening of March 1st, 1884, 
President Zuill in the chair. On roll call the following members 
responded: Drs. Rogers, Zuill, Glass. Goentner, Hoskins, Camp¬ 
bell and Schaufler. Dr. T. F. Hance was present by invitation. 
The minutes of previous meeting were read and approved. The 
committee appointed on credentials of Dr. Jas. McCoart as an 
applicant for membership, reported adversly. The report was 
received and accepted by the Association. 
Dr. S. C. Campbell then favored the Association with an 
article upon enteritis, making special reference to the apoplectic 
form. He considered the temperature of 104° to 105°, a good 
diagnostic symptom from spasmodic colic, where there was no 
elevation. Quoting from an authority in human medicine, he 
said the symptoms of colic and peritonitis added, formed those of 
enteritis. Among other symptoms he referred to the foetid dis¬ 
charges, mouth hot and dry, tongue coated, the skin variable, hot 
and dry at times, and at other periods moist with perspiration; 
pulse hard, wiry and quick, about 125 per minute. When the 
case assumes a favorable nature, it becomes full and soft; when 
unfavorable, weak and pulseless at the jaw, while the heart still 
beats; abdomen tender to the touch, and abdominal muscles con¬ 
tracted ; animal seldom lies down, if so, with great care, moves 
around carefully, countenance anxious, paws alternately with the 
fore-feet; later on delirious, lips become pendulous, breath cold 
and foetid, eyes dull and amocuratic, legs cold, and death ensues; 
or a patient may assume a septic condition and become tranquil, 
eat and drink, when but a few hours elapses before death takes 
place; in this condition the temperature falls. In favorable 
cases the pulse becomes full and compressible, and temperature 
drops down. 
Treatment. —Morphia first, with atropia for antispasmodie 
effects; quinine to reduce the pulse; aconite, veratum viride, if 
the former fails. Then for the plastic exudations remaining, 
calomel or iodide of potassium. Locally, counter-irritants, mus- 
