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ether be applied locally, the result is the same, and operations 
could be performed with but few struggles, but many of the 
operations being short and quickly performed, it was useless; it 
was further objectionable very often because of the reaction after 
operating, and the ill effects of the ether only. To fire a part 
after directly cooling it he deemed to be utterly useless. 
The Chairman (Mr. Mavor) said,—Being the first to use aether 
spray, he found it succeeded very well indeed; it caused pain, 
when applied in neurotomy, to the nerve, which soon subsided. 
The greatest objection to it was its inexpediency, different seasons 
of the year rendering its adoption sometimes useless, hot weather 
being the only time. He stated that the conjunction with the 
alkaloids of ether and chloroform as a means of producing local 
anasthsesia was a question he had thought of trying by subcuta¬ 
neous injection. 
Votes of thanks were accorded to the Chairman and Mr. 
Hunting, after which the meeting dispersed. Members present, 
13. 
James Howe, Junr., Hon. Sec. 
THE SCOTTISH METROPOLITAN VETERINARY 
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The quarterly meeting was held in Cumming’s Hotel, Lothian 
Road, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, 15th May, at % p.m. 
Professor Williams, President, in the Chair. 
Present: Messrs. Borthwick, Kirkleston; Aitken, Dalkeith; 
Balfour, Kirkcaldy; Baird, Cumming, and Aitken, Edinburgh; 
Waugh, Stirling ; Brown, West Calder; Pinlay, Royal Artillery, 
Leith Port; Professor W r alley; Mr. Black, Howgate; and the 
Secretary. 
Professor Walley was elected a member; and Mr. Black, 
Howgate, proposed by Mr. Cunningham , seconded by Mr. 
Borthwick , as a member of the Society. 
Mr. Borthwick'"8 motion as to reading of essays and intro¬ 
duction of interesting cases at each meeting was adopted. 
Mr. Aitken , Causewayside, Edinburgh, submitted to the in¬ 
spection of the members a mare lame in the off hind leg, from 
an injury to the flexor metatarsi and extensor pedis muscles, 
presenting the peculiar symptoms shown in strain or rupture 
of these muscles. 
Professor Williams , in commenting on the case, said that he 
