SOCIETY MEETINGS 
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school and member of the Association furnish him with their 
present address, that they may be conferred with, to further this 
important work. 
W. Horace Hoskins, Secy,. 
254 S. 15th St., Philada., Pa. 
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
The regular monthly meeting of the New York State Veteri¬ 
nary Society was held at the American Veterinary College, on 
Tuesday evening, April 10th, 1883, at eight o’clock, p. m. The 
President, Dr. Liautard, being absent, the meeting was presided 
over by Vice-President Dr. Coates. The following gentlemen 
responded to the roll-call: Drs. Lockhart, Burden, L. McLean, 
Coates, Michener, Crane, Leighton and Devoe. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 
Dr. Michener read a paper on intestinal diseases, and made 
strong objections to the use of trocar and cannula in cases of tym¬ 
panitic colic in horses, which provoked a lively discussion 
amongst the members present. 
Dr. Crane, in answer to a query, said that he had punctured in 
as many as one hundred cases of flatulent colic, and every one 
of the cases were relieved by the operation. 
Dr. Lockhart’s success in use of, trocar and cannula not good ; 
believes in administering internal remedies, as he has found that 
his cases generally result favorably by so doing. 
Dr. Burden favors the operation, and recites a case where the 
animal was punctured nine times, and each time relieved, as there 
was a flow of gas in large quantities succeeding each puncture. 
Dr. L. McLean says that in tympanitic colic some remedy should 
be given to arrest the fermentation and accumulation of gases, and 
he has given carbolic acid, and never hesitates to puncture, and 
has had no bad results. Has punctured cases at night and sent 
them to work the next morning. 
Dr. Michener advises the use of bi-carbonate of soda, as an 
antiseptic to arrest the fermentation, and also says that indiscrimi¬ 
nate puncturing is wrong: one of the bad results being abscesses 
