LIVERPOOL yETER^^^ARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 65 
After partaking of refreshments, wliich the President had kindly 
provided, the meeting was opened. There were present—Messrs. 
Heyes (President), Morgan, Wilson, Harwood, R. Reynolds, W. C. 
Elam, Akroyd, and Leather (Liverpool), A. Lawson (Bolton), 
W. C. Lawson (Woolton), Storrar (Chester), Whittle (Worsley), 
T. Greaves, P. Taylor, Tom Taylor, and Nottage (Manchester), and 
the Secretary. 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and con¬ 
firmed, the Secretary read a letter from Mr. Richmond, of Chorley, 
expressing his regret at being incapacitated by illness from attend¬ 
ing the meeting, and offering some remarks upon the administration 
of medicines to animals. He also enclosed a cheque for IO 5 . ^d. 
towards the expenses of the Association, and desired to become a 
member. After some discussion, it was moved that the Secretary 
write to Mr. Richmond, thanking him for his kind donation, and to 
request his permission that the same be handed over to the Bene¬ 
volent Fund of the Defence Society, as the Association was not in 
want of it, and also to request that gentleman to forward a paper 
for discussion at some future meeting, on the best mode of adminis¬ 
tering medicines to our domestic animals. 
A letter was also read from Mr. Cartwright, of Whitchurch, 
expressing sorrow for being unable to attend, and relating some 
cases of poisoning by acorns amongst some young stock in the 
neighbourhood of Crewe. The post-mortem appearances were 
principally those of gastro-enteritis of a most intense nature, and 
ulceration of the leaves of the third stomach, the folds of which had 
holes in them sufficiently large to put a pea through. 
Mr. Cartwright was then duly elected an honorary associate, and 
Mr. Akroyd a member, of the Association ; Mr. Richmond was also 
nominated as a member. 
Mr. Elam then introduced for discussion the subject of “ Affections 
of the Brain,” by relating a case of rupture of the basilar artery in 
a mare, the property of the Liverpool Omnibus Company. She 
was taken ill on the 22nd of September, having evinced no previous 
symptoms. On that day she became dull in appearance, sluggish 
in action, rested her head on the manger, breathed with difficulty; 
she was partially paralysed, eyes amaurotic, bowels constipated, and 
faeces coated with mucus, surface chill, pulse quick. The treatment 
consisted of laxatives, with stimulants, blister to poll, and general 
attention to comfort and diet.—23rd: No improvement; pulse fuller 
and stronger, no action of bowels ; repeated the physic, abstracted 
about six quarts of blood, and applied cold ablutions to the head 
at intervals; administered enemas, &c.—24th: No better; she suc¬ 
cumbed to the disease the same morning, and upon making a post¬ 
mortem examination the internal organs were found healthy, as also 
the meninges and substance of the brain. The basilar artery was 
varicose, being filled with congested blood, and underneath it was a 
clot of blood, extending from the middle of the medulla oblongata 
to the fissure. He thought it probable that these appearances 
may have been caused by violence. 
