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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
CONNECTICUT VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
The regular bi-monthly meeting of the above Society was held 
at the usual place in New Haven, on Tuesday, Aug. 5th. The 
President, Dr. W. J. Sullivan, in the chair. 
There were present Drs. F. E. Rice, W. K. Lewis, E. C. Ross, 
E. A. McLellan, A. D. Sturges, Geo. H. Parkinson, Nathan 
Tibbies and Thos. Bland. 
The minutes of previous meeting were read and approved. 
Dr. E. A. McLellan read a very lengthy and carefully pre¬ 
pared paper on “ The Surgical or Mechanical Treatment of Dis¬ 
eases of the Feet.” In speaking of quarter-crack, the essayist 
said that he generally found unequal pressure at the coronet on 
the side on which the crack had formed, the wall being deeper 
than on the other side, and the coronary structure pushed upward 
and inward, the pressure of the horn so lessening nutrition and 
the descending pastern pressing upon the adjacent tissues, causing 
fracture of the thin and weakened wall. 
The treatment he recommended was first to reduce the wall 
at the plantar border so as to remove as far as possible the undue 
elevation of the coronet, then thin the bar and planter horn on 
same side and apply a spring between the heels in such a manner 
as to widen them at their most posterior point. The crack will 
then be closed unless it should be very wide and its edges everted. 
In any case he advised that a transverse incision should be made 
at the superior extremity of the fissure, and in applying the shoe 
it should bear evenly from toe to heel on both sides. The spring 
should be used until the wall became sound. In case of a foot 
predisposed, the occasional use of the spring will prevent a recur¬ 
rence of the crack. 
The various foot troubles, such as chronic laminitis, corns, 
thrush, ossification of lateral cartilages, etc., were exhaustively 
treated, and at the conclusion of reading of the paper, a lively 
discussion ensued, the essayist successfully combatting the multi¬ 
tude of questions that were put to him. 
The Secretary was chosen to read a paper at the next meeting. 
It was voted that a reserve fund should be created by a month- 
