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LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
This Society held its eighth annual meeting at the Trevelyan 
Hotel, Manchester, on Wednesday evening, the 1 6 th of March, at 
five o’clock. 
Present — The President, G. Morgan, Esq., of Liverpool ; Mr. T. 
Greaves, Manchester ; P. Taylor, Manchester ; A. L. Gibson, Man- 
chester; Mr. Eield, Manchester; T. Taylor, Manchester; A. 
Lawson, Bolton ; W. Lawson, Woolton ; J. Taylor, Oldham ; A. 
Cliallinor, Bolton; W. Whittle, Worsley ; W. Woods, Wigan; W. 
Dobie, Birkenhead ; G. Hayes, Liverpool ; Walley, Liverpool ; 
Anderson, Manchester ; T. Greaves, Jun., Manchester ; Bostock, 
Altringham ; and the Secretary. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and passed. 
Mr. A. Lawson then proposed his nephew, Mr. J. Lawson, of 
Manchester, as a member of the Association ; the proposition was 
seconded by Mr. P. Taylor, and carried unanimously. 
Mr. T. Greaves next proposed Mr. Bostock ; Mr. J. Taylor 
seconded the proposal, which was carried. 
The President then read his inaugural address, which contained 
many points of interest to the profession, and was listened to with 
marked and earnest attention. 
The address of condolence to Mrs. J. Lawson and family, beau- 
tifully engrossed and appropriately framed, was shown to the mem- 
bers, and much admired for the neat manner in which it was 
executed. 
Afterwards, the evening was spent in the relation of peculiar 
cases that had come under the notice of the various members pre- 
sent. Mr. Howell described a case of inflammation of the uterus, 
which provoked a good deal of discussion. Mr. Woods 'next re- 
lated the case of a cow that did not calve at the time she should 
have done ; fifteen months afterwards she was killed fat, and a 
perfectly formed calf was found in the uterus dried up. Mr. 
Morgan related several cases of inversion of the uterus, and 
a good deal of discussion took place on the best means of deal- 
ing with these unpleasant cases. Mr. T. Taylor next brought for- 
ward two cases of twisted uterus ; Mr. A. Lawson following with a 
case of diseased bones of the hock of a horse, exhibiting the speci- 
men, which was carious to a great extent, and had been the subject 
of a good deal of difference of opinion during lifetime. Mr. Howell 
related a case of lameness in the hock of a horse upon which he 
performed neurotomy with a successful result, the animal having 
worked sound for the last seven years. 
The meeting then terminated. 
W. J. Challinor, 
Hon. Sec. 
