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VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
Mr. A. C. Cope, on 1 Food, and the Process of Digestion.’ 
Mr. V. Vine , on ( Parturient Apoplexy and Mammitis’ 
Mr. J. K. Haire, on c Veterinary Jurisprudence.’ 
Mr. A. II. Statham , on ‘Distemper.’ 
Mr. Fuller , on ‘ Pleuro-pneumonia.’ 
Mr. Roberts , on the ‘ Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology 
of the Heart.’ 
Mr. D. F. Jaynes , on ‘ Arsenic and Strychnia ;’ and 
Mr. Santy, on c The Pathology and Treatment of " Wens” 
in Oxen.’ 
The essays by Messrs. Hoocl and James were illustrated 
by specimens of the substances of which they respectively 
treated. 
The only interesting morbid specimen laid before the 
members during the session, was the heart of a dog which 
had died from rupture of the left auricle ; for which, with the 
history of the case, we were indebted to Mr. Fuller. 
Mr.Bovett also directed attention to a portion of a stocking 
covered with phosphatic deposits, which had been found in 
the ilium of a cow, the animal having suffered from indi- 
gestion associated with symptoms of cholic. 
The essay by Mr. Haire, on ‘Veterinary Jurisprudence,’ 
was so well approved by the members of the Association, 
that a resolution requesting him to allow it to be printed 
was carried unanimously ; and it is hoped that it will be of 
use to many when engaged in this often unpleasant and 
difficult section of veterinary practice. 
Mr. C. Jjowe, M.R.C.V.S., brought an improved suture 
needle under our notice ; and Messrs. Cox and Maw , when 
reading their essays, laid instruments before us, the one an 
embryotomy knife, the other a model of a truss for scrotal 
hernia. 
A ‘Hand-book of Veterinary Operations’ has been pre- 
sented to the library by I)r. Hering, of Stuttgard ; and also 
pamphlets on ‘Colic or Indigestion in the Horse;’ and 
on ‘ Diseased Meat sold in Edinburgh,’ by Mr. J. Gamgee , 
M.R.C.V.S. 
This is an outline of the general business of the session, 
and the advantages derivable therefrom cannot fail to be of 
value to every member of the Association. 
Each of the essays was fairly discussed, and on some 
occasions the debate was prolonged over two evenings, so 
that each member had an opportunity of expressing his 
opinions thereon, or of putting questions to the author so as 
to elicit further elucidation of the subject. 
It is this which gives to associations like this their greatest 
