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THE LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The last quarterly meeting was held at the Spread Eagle Hotel, 
Manchester, June 28th, the President, W. Whittle, Esq., in the chair. 
The following gentlemen were also present : — Messrs. Thomas 
Greaves, Peter Taylor, Thomas Walley, T. Hopkins, A. Lawson, 
Anderson, Howard, Faulkner, Watson (Manchester), W. A. Cart- 
wright (Whitchurch), A. Lawson (Bolton), A. Challinor (Bolton), 
Woods (Wigan), Leather (Liverpool), J. Taylor (Oldham), Howell 
(Rochdale), Buckley (Blackburn), Brookes (Pilkington), J. B. 
Taylor (Ashton), J. Lomas (Stockport), A. S. Cox (Knutsford), 
J. E. Mather (Blackley), W. Bromley (Lancaster), and the Secre- 
tary. 
Letters of apology for non-attendance were received from Messrs. 
Morgan, Thomas Taylor, John Greaves, John Lawson, W. I. Chal- 
linor, Lowe, Hanly (4th Dragoon Guards), i Naylor, Fearnley, 
Bostock, Carter, and Broughton. 
After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and 
confirmed, Mr. Woolmer (Heywood) was elected a member, and 
Mr. Bromley (Lancaster) was nominated for membership by Mr. 
Whittle. 
The election of two gentlemen to officiate as Life Governors of 
the Benevolent Fund of the National Veterinary Benevolent and 
Mutual Defence Society was then proceeded with, and Messrs. 
Whittle and Thos. Taylor were unanimously elected. 
The report of the committee appointed at the last meeting to 
revise the rules of the Association was read by the Secretary, and 
after a few remarks from some of the members the revised list was 
passed unanimously. One of the most important alterations was 
the addition of a new rule, which is as follows : — “ Gentlemen, 
members of any other recognised Veterinary Medical Association, 
desirous of becoming members of this Society, shall do so on pay- 
ment only of ten shillings annual subscription ; such gentlemen to 
be duly nominated and proposed according to Rule VI.” 
The President then called upon Mr. W. A. Cartwright to read 
his essay on “Inflammation of Veins.” 
Mr. President and Gentlemen, — At the Veterinary Medical 
Association in London, Session 1839-40, I read an essay on in- 
flammation and disease in a great measure of the jugular veins, 
on which we had two very excellent nights’ debate. And as the 
more prominent of our subjects for discussion are in a great measure 
exhausted, I thought I should not be doing wrong in bringing this 
matter, with additions thereto, before the members of this Asso- 
ciation, who are of a more mature age, and can bring their practical 
knowledge to bear upon it, far more so than the youths who 
formed the association at the College. 
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