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LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The Lancashire Veterinary Medical Association held its quarterly 
meeting on Wednesday, October 12th, at the Trevelyan Hotel, Man- 
chester, the President in the chair. 
The following gentlemen were present: — Messrs. T. Greaves, 
W. Whittle, P. Taylor, Cartwright, — Woods, A. Lawson, J. Taylor, 
A. L. Gibson, Mr. Howell, and other gentlemen. 
There being no paper to be read, the evening was spent in the 
relation of interesting cases which had occurred in the practices of 
the gentlemen present. 
The President related a case that he believed to be dislocation or 
partial dislocation of the hip-joint ; and from his description of the 
position of the limb, it was the general opinion that such must have 
been the case. 
The dislocation was successfully reduced, and the animal eventually 
became sound. 
Mr. Whittle cited a similar case in a cow, but she was de- 
stroyed. 
There was an animated discussion upon elasticity, non-elasticity, 
and rupture of ligament, in cases of luxation of joints of the horse. 
Mr. Cartwright and Mr. Woods both related cases of dislocation 
of patella in cows. 
Mr. Cartwright also related some cases of breech presentation, 
which he had successfully treated by simply forcing the calf away 
without raising the hind legs. 
Mr. Wood did not approve of the plan, but always endea- 
voured to raise the legs, and had not as a rule much difficulty. 
Mr. Whittle agreed with Mr. Woods , and both advocated 
lubricating the parts when requisite with linseed oil. 
Mr. Greaves cited some similar cases, one accompanied with 
rupture of the uterus, which of course was unsuccessful. 
The discussion was also entered into by Messrs. P. Taylor, A. 
Lawson, and others. 
Mr. Greaves read a short paper upon 
VIOLENTLY DRAWN-OUT TONGUE. 
I remember a horse being brought into my infirmary some years 
ago, with his tongue hanging six or eight inches out of his mouth ; 
it had been protruding thus a couple of days ; the incisor teeth had 
been champing upon it ; it was nearly bitten off, — the part appeared 
quite dead. I took a pair of scissors, and at once amputated it; 
this case did well. Another case I saw in the company of a vete- 
rinary surgeon, whose patient the animal was ; the tongue had been 
protruding several hours ; the muscles appeared to have lost all their 
