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THE LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The twenty-second quarterly meeting of the Liverpool Veterinary 
Medical Association was held at the Medical Institution, Hope Street, 
on the evening of Friday, November 12th, 1869. 
The members having partaken of refreshment, which the Pre- 
sident with his customary liberality had provided for them, on this 
as on each previous occasion of meeting, the chair was taken by 
Thomas Greaves, Esq., of Manchester, P.R.C.V.S., and President of 
the Association. 
Present : — Messrs. Morgan, Heyes, Ackroyd, Elam, Harwood 
(Liverpool), Peter Taylor and Anderson (Manchester), Storrar 
(Chester), Whittle (Worsley), W. C. Lawson (Woolton), II. J. 
Cartwright (Wolverhampton), Woods (Wigan), Dobie (Birkenhead), 
and the Secretary. 
Letters were acknowledged from Messrs. Cartwright (Whit- 
church), Dray (Leeds), Naylor (Wakefield), Lewis (Crewe), T. 
Taylor (Manchester), J. Sumner (Liverpool). 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and 
confirmed. 
The President said it was a source of regret to him that cir- 
cumstances had on this occasion necessitated his being in the 
somewhat anomalous position of chairman and essayist. The 
situation was certainly not one of his own seeking ; doubtless the 
members were aware, that his time had of late been considerably 
occupied by extraneous business matters, and he trusted they would 
accept that short explanation as an apology for the brevity of the 
paper he was about to read to them. 
VOMICiE IN THE HORSE. 
Percival, in his “ Hippopathology” says, that, “Putting acci- 
dents and lameness out of the question, we shall find a large 
majority of the cases presented to us for treatment to be diseases of 
the respiratory apparatus, and the most fatal of them to be those 
which attack the lungs and their enveloping membrane, the pleura. 
These diseases in horses, by the rapidity of their course, — in man 
they are apt by slow degrees to bring their victims to an end, — while 
they will destroy horses even after a few hours’ duration, and in 
despite, too, of every measure which medical skill can devise.” 
It is not my intention to-night to offer you a long description 
of the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the several organs 
which are involved in the phenomenon of respiration, as I intend to 
confine myself as strictly as possible, and endeavour to lead your 
thoughts to one special diseased condition of the lungs, viz., 
vomicae. 
Vomicae is a word used to define a specific condition of the lungs, — 
