SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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THE CONNECTICUT VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
The first regular meeting of this Society was held in Water¬ 
bary, Tuesday afternoon, April 1st., the President, Dr. W. T. 
Sullivan, New Haven, in the chair. 
There were present Messrs. E. A. McClellan, Bridgeport; 
W. K. Lewis, Meriden ; Nathan Tibbals, New Haven ; Geo. H. 
Parkinson, Middletown, and Thomas Bland, Waterbary. 
Telegrams of excuse were received from Messrs. A. Murray, 
Stamford, and H. J. McHugh, New Haven. A letter was read 
from Prof. Liautard, congratulating the Society on its formation 
and wishing it success. 
The President then delivered a very lengthy and able address, 
his subject being operative surgery. 
Considerable disappointment was felt at the absence of Dr. 
McHugh, as he was to have read a paper on cerebro-spinal- 
meningitis. 
Many interesting cases were spoken off and freely discussed. 
Dr. E. A. McClellan spoke of the favorable results obtained in 
cases of impaction, by the intravenous injection of physostig- 
minum, and stated that he had met with negative results by the 
subcutaneous method. Dr. Parkinson said he had used the 
alkaloid subcutaneously with negative results, and that he attrib¬ 
uted it to the impurity of the drug. 
Dr. Tibbals did not believe in the use of the trocar in cases of 
tympanitis. Messrs. McClellan and Bland were quite enthusi¬ 
astic as to its use, and stated that it not only relieved the suffer¬ 
ing animal at once, but made the administration of medicine 
much easier and accompanied with less danger. One of the 
members said he always found the easiest way to administer 
linseed oil to horses was through the nostrils, and had never seen 
any injurious effects from so doing. Thos. Bland considered it 
was far from being scientific and was undoubtedly a dangerous prac¬ 
tice, having seen bad results accrue therefrom, not at his hands, 
but at the hands of ignorant empirics, and would advise practi¬ 
tioners never to resort to such means, as they not only laid 
themselves open to censure and criticisms by the profession but 
by the public generally. These views were well supported. 
