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discharge issuing from the wound. I then applied a solution of 
sulphate of zinc and acetate of lead, and bound it up as before. 
A week afterwards I again had recourse to the same treatment, 
and found the parts in a better condition than at the preceding 
dressing. 
After one or two more dressings in the same manner, and a month 
from the time the injury was received, I found, to my satisfaction, 
the parts entirely whole, and the animal walking without the 
slightest symptom of lameness, or any other mark of injury, except 
a slight scar from the loss of hair, marking the place of the wound. 
MEETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS, 
Held at the Freemasons Tavern , Monday , §th May, 1845. 
Upon the President taking his seat, the Secretary proceeded to 
read the minutes of the last General Meeting, and afterwards the 
advertisement by which this meeting was convened, and from 
which it appeared that its object was to elect six persons to be 
Members of the Council, in the room of Messrs. W. Field, James 
Home, G. Baker, E. Braby, T. W. Mayer, and W. Ernes, who 
went out by rotation. This being finished, 
The President rose, and said, it afforded him much gratification 
to preside on the present occasion, and he congratulated the mem- 
bers on the anniversary of a meeting at which they had been called 
together to receive a boon of the value of which he was quite sure 
they all felt sufficiently sensible, and at which meeting they had 
conveyed their feeling of gratitude and thanks due to the Sovereign 
and legislature for granting it. 
They had, since that time, passed through a year of much diffi- 
culty. 
As might be expected from the composition of the College, 
the Charter had not proved agreeable to all parties; nevertheless 
he was convinced that the members generally of their body were 
satisfied with its provisions. And now that this public document 
had been made serviceable to the body at large, who were already 
reaping the benefits derivable from it, it must be presumed that it 
was of importance, if it were only for the alteration it had effected 
in their Institution by its provisions. 
At their first meeting they had elected a Council, composed of 
twenty-four gentlemen, and he was inclined to say, that this elec- 
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