MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
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and Fourth avenue, New York City, with the President, Dr. 
Robertson, in the chair. Members present were Drs. Liautard, 
Lockhart, McLean, Burden, Bell, Hopkins, E. Nostrand, P. 
Nostrand, Coates and Holcombe. On motion, the Secretary was 
ordered to strike from the roll the names of delinquent members. 
Dr. Samuel S. Field, William H. Wray and Alvord H. Bose 
were proposed for members by Dr. Holcombe. Mr. L. McLean, 
of Brooklyn, read a paper on contagious pleura-pneumonia, which 
excited a lengthy and spirited discussion between Drs. Liautard, 
Robertson, Lockhart, Bell, Holcombe and the essayist. Dr. 
Liautard, asked if, in opposition to the opinion of the essayist, the 
prophylactic treatment of inoculation would not be attended with 
better results than some authors will concede, and better than 
most practitioners are taught to expect. He thought that there 
was a probability of the great fatality attending the essayist’s 
experiments, being due to septicsemic poisoning instead of the in¬ 
duced pleura-pneumonia. Dr. Robertson believed that the inocu¬ 
lation was the true method of treatment to adopt when we con¬ 
sider the limited mortality attending this operation as practised 
on the continent. He believed that the disease would not be com¬ 
municated after the febrile stage had passed, and also that in inocu¬ 
lation it was necessary there should be the usual local manifesta¬ 
tions of the disease to render the animal proof against infection. 
Dr. Lockhart doubted the efficacy of inoculation, especially in 
Scotland, and thought “ stamping out ” the most effective treat¬ 
ment. L. T. Bell questioned the possibility of determining by a 
post mortem examination, as claimed by the essayist, whether a 
recovered case had been one of sporadic or contagious pleur- 
pneumonia. A. A. Holcombe called attention to a recent out¬ 
break of this disease in the southern portion of Hunterdon 
County, N. J., and cited the fact that pleuro-pneumonia is 
rapidly spreading over that State, and he thought the time was 
rapidly coming when we will be called upon to prevent its further 
progress. He believed from his experience of an outbreak in 
Somerset County, N. J., during the summer of 1874, that cases 
of apparent recovery were capable of communicating the disease 
a considerable time after the local symptoms had subsided, and 
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