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VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
JSS either 0f the P eri0dicals 5 perhaps they could be 
vvorid blt mn r I P ! 1 \ SeemS Iate ! y have g Qt abl 'oad in the veterinary 
3’iZ be r t gr , etted ;„ 1 am trul y son 'y to see such discord 
cl disunion in our body. All moderate men—every one I think 
those h humriiat SPeCtablllty fY profession at heart-must deplore 
Freemii T a ! S ° e “ eS ar % sald to have take " P^ce at the 
on the mbd b of th & t more 1 likel y to lea ve a bad impression 
oursefves d f PUbllc ’ than to lead to an y S ood result amongst 
Y 1 * , res P ect t0 ‘he periodicals, I must say I am glad to see 
out frmn its rr 1 116 ° f ha * annou . nced a determinatfon to shut 
chieflvY f lmnS , aU party work ’” and to dedicate its pages 
to advancJth^f 1011 ^^I matter. Such a course is best calculated 
advance the true interests of our art; and at the same time will 
too • for l tL my ° pimon ’ n °t onl y m °re readers, but more writers 
vfsh £ s " la “ y ’ Y® m y se,f ’ who > although they might 
wish to see some things altered at head quarters^ would never 
identify themselves with faction. 
Edinburgh, bth November , 18 * 29 . 
VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY, 21st Oct. 1829. 
DISCUSSION ON MR. YV. PERCIVALL’S PAPER ON SOUNDNESS. 
Mr. J. Pep.civall in the Chair. 
Mr. James Turner understood Mr. Percivall to say, that a 
horse with bog-spavm or thorough-pin would be sound, unless 
these were accompanied by lameness. He conceived this to be 
!“‘ ect ' A hoise vvlth bog-spavin or thorough-pin might con- 
ue sound for a certain time, or in ordinary work, but could not 
O o with the hounds m a stiff hunting country: such a horse 
would not continue sound two days. 
Mr. W. Percivall explained, that when he considered these 
tilings as not amounting to unsoundness, he still referred to the 
principle which he had advocated throughout his paper,—that not 
only all lameness was unsoundness, but all such alteration of 
structure as either impaired present action, or was likely to affect 
ts cluiability. If the parts could not undergo the same work the 
horse was unsound. * 
Mr. J. Turner, Then he should pass such horses conditionally. 
