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by the formation of veterinary societies? In our days, these 
organizations are met with all over the country—city, county and 
State. Veterinary associations exist everywhere. Is it not to 
these that the veterinarian ought to look for his information ? 
And again, is it a necessity to be an M.D. to attend a human 
• medical gathering? It do not believe it to be so. On the con¬ 
trary, I am sure that in this city any medical society would kindly 
listen to a veterinarian, though he might not be a graduate of 
human medicine. Still, I do not believe that your degree of 
physicians would open to you the doors of all medical bodies. 
To resume: In thanking you for your attention, I consider 
that it is an error on the part of young graduates in veterinary 
medicine to expect to improve their veterinary knowledge by 
attending a medical school, fresh from their veterinary alma 
mater , merely to obtain an M.D. I consider that if further medical 
instruction is required, it is to a post-graduate veterinary institution 
that application should be made, and that the qualified veterinarian 
can make his way through the world, and make for himself a name, 
by working hard only in his own proper specialty, and that if 
human medical education is to be of any advantage to him, it 
can only be under some very few and peculiar circumstances, 
such as those presented by a few European veterinarians, who 
in a later period in their life were called upon to fill special posi¬ 
tions in some given specific plans of education. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
REMOVAL OF A CYSTIC CALCULI. 
Br W. D. Critohersor, D.V.S. 
A brown mare which I have had in my possession for several 
years, and who, during that time, until recently, has never been 
unfit for work, is now worse than useless. Early last fall I 
noticed that after being driven, she would immediately on being 
stopped micturate, the act being accompanied by more or less 
pain, as evinced by expulsive efforts and spasmodic movements of 
the tail. The urine, when at first noticed, was passed slightly 
