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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
prepared in the Department, and will be issued at an early date. 
It is also understood that slips containing brief descriptions of 
the symptoms of the principal infectious and contagious diseases, 
with hints as to the best mode of treatment in cases where it is 
impossible to obtain a veterinarian, will be distributed through 
the Province. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
KEYSTONE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The regular monthly meeting of the Keystone Veterinary 
Medical Association was held at Camden on the evening of Dec. 
1st, 1883, President Zuill presiding. On roll call, Drs. Zuill, 
Miller, Rogers, Campbell and Hoskins were present. The fol¬ 
lowing amendment to the by-laws was laid upon the table for 
futnre action : “ That the officers of this Association shall be 
elected by ballot, at each anniversary meeting, and a majority of 
all votes present shall be necessary for a choice.” 
Dr. Hoskins then brought before the Association an important 
question that had arisen with him. In a few remarks he traced 
up the calling and holding of the State Convention, its action on 
the admission of members, and that this had brought some of the 
members of this Association in close communication with certain 
irregular members of the profession. Through committee meet¬ 
ings and otherwise they had been brought in contact with these 
self-made men, and would need their support in securing legisla¬ 
tion in the future. He spoke of some that he had met as good 
practitioners—men who assumed none of the ways of empirics ; 
of their intelligent mode of practicing, and having at their time 
of entering the profession absorbed the best opportunities of be¬ 
coming proficient in their calling that then existed, and that 
under these circumstances he favored recognizing them to the 
degree of consulting with them in the future. He believed that 
a careful discrimination in this matter would lead to no discredit, 
and trusted that it might not be an entering wedge for the com¬ 
mingling of qualified men with empirics. 
