SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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MEETING OF THE NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY SOCIETY. 
The sixty-eighth regular monthly meeting of the New York 
State Veterinary Society was held at the American Veterinary 
College, Tuesday, March 14, 1882, at 8 o’clock p. m. 
The meeting was called to order by the President. 
The following gentlemen responded to the roll call: Drs. Liau. 
tard, Burden, L. McLean, B. A. McLean, Coates, Bunker and 
Foote. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and adopted. 
The committee appointed to inquire into the standing of Dr. 
L. M. Crane, who was proposed for membership at the last meet¬ 
ing of the Society, reported favorably, whereupon motion was 
made and seconded that he be admitted as a member. Drs. 
Coates and Bunker were appointed as tellers. Result of ballot 
was the unanimous election of the gentleman as a member of the 
Society. Dr. Coates proposed the name of Dr. Kemp for mem¬ 
bership. The same committee was authorized to serve, that 
served in the case of Dr. Crane. 
Dr. Liautard read a paper on “ Dislocations,” referring par¬ 
ticularly to the “ so-called cases of dislocation of the stifle.” He 
endorsed the theory brought forward in a recent meeting of the 
Societe Centrale Veterinaire de Paris, by Mons. Clinchu “that 
in cases of so-called luxation of the patella, the patella was caught 
on the upper segment of the inner border of the femoral trochlea. 
As an illustration of this condition the fact was presented that 
it is met in animals which have been sick for some time and in 
which the adipose pad of the joint is reduced as well as the 
synovial secretion is diminished, conditions which hinder the pos¬ 
sibility of excessive movement upwards of the patella by con¬ 
traction of the triceps cruralis, and difficulty of its returning to its 
normal position. In the words of Mr. Bouley, this position of 
the patella was a normal position carried to extreme. 
A. lengthy discussion ensued, the theory meeting with consid¬ 
erable opposition. The question as to whether the condition 
should be considered as a dislocation or not, gave rise to a lengthy 
debate, Drs. L. McLean and Coates taking the stand that when- 
