38 LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
was to have all the sows spayed, and change the pasture 
ground. About a fortnight after Mr. Bivort met the castrator, 
who was going to spay a sow; he examined the animal, which 
appeared in good health. The mucous membrane of the 
vagina, however, was redder than in the normal state. After 
the operation the ovaries were found to be much injected ; 
part of the vesicles of De Graaf were of the size of a pea, 
filled with yellow pus, while others were less in size, and con¬ 
tained a white fluid somewhat turbid. The castrator said 
that according to his (the author’s) advice, he had castrated 
a great many of the sow’s, and that in all he had found the 
ovaries, to a greater or less extent, in a state of suppuration 
and enlargement, and that his father had told him that he 
had met with the same appearance in the ovaries of the sows 
on the same farm, and that throughout the year the same 
fallow ground had served for pasture for the animals as then. 
We may therefore suppose that the plants which grow on 
this ground, when laid fallow, caused this ovarian malady in 
the pigs. The disease is calculated to cause great loss to the 
cultivators of the district. 
From a communication it appears that about the same 
time the malady prevailed in another commune.— Bull, cle 
la Soc. des Sc. Med. du Grand Duche de Luxembourg. 
THE LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The above Association held its twenty-fourth meeting at the 
Trevelyan Hotel, Manchester, on the 2nd of September, 18fi8. 
Thomas Taylor, Esq., President, in the chair. 
There were present Messrs. J. Lawson, Cartwright, Brown, 
Greaves, J. Greaves, Haycock, Brooks, W. J. Challinor, Owles (6th 
Dragoons), Howel, and Nottage. 
Letters of apology were read from Messrs. Peter Taylor, James 
Taylor, Morgan, and A. Lawson. 
After the minutes of the last meeting were read, Mr. A. Bland, 
of Oldham, was proposed as a member by T. Taylor, and seconded 
by W. J. Challinor. 
It was proposed by Thos. Greaves, and seconded by — Cartwright, 
that the annual meeting be held at the Trevelyan Hotel; and that 
after the President’s inaugural address, and the dinner, or conver¬ 
sazione, instead of the usual toasts proposed on such occasions, 
various members shall record some short interesting exceptional 
