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an old remedy which was yet much employed by farriers,, 
viz. sulphuric acid, which is to be applied as follows :—A 
short stick garnished with some tow at an end to be dipped 
in the acid and applied to the affected parts with some fric¬ 
tion, taking great care that none gets on the other parts, 
particularly the udder, which should be well greased before, 
and drawn out of the way by an assistant, the animal well 
secured after, so as not to lick the parts ; a scar forms and the 
tumour disappears and with it the lameness.— IhicL 
NORTH OF ENGLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The twenty-third quarterly meeting of this Association M’^as held 
at Greg’s Adelphi Hotel, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Friday, October 
16th, 1869. The members present were: Messrs. M. Hedly (Pre¬ 
sident), C. Stephenson, R. Brydon, D. Macgregor, J. Gofton, W. 
Marshall, D. Dudgeon, W. S. Moore, H. Hunter, W. Temple, J. E. 
Peele, A. Mann, and the Honorary Secretary. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
The election of office-bearers was then proceeded with. Mr. Brydon 
proposed, and Mr. Stephenson seconded, that Mr. Dudgeon be 
elected President for the ensuing year; carried unanimously. 
It w'as proposed by Mr. Macgregor., and seconded by Mr. Mann, 
that Mr. Brydon be elected a Vice-president ; carried. 
Proposed by Mr. Stephenson, that Mr. Marshall be elected a Vice- 
president ; seconded by Mr. Hunter, and carried. 
Mr. Brydon proposed, and Mr. Stephenson seconded, that the 
Treasurer and Secretary be re-elected ; carried. 
Mr. Peele proposed that Messrs. H. E. Wilkinson, C. Stephenson, 
H. Hunter, D, Macgregor, J. Gofton, and W. S. Moore be Councilmen 
for the ensuing year; seconded hy Mr.Hedly carried unanimously. 
Mr. Stephenson then read his paper on 
OBSTRUCTED BOWELS IN HORSES. 
Gentlemen, —I purpose bringing before your notice to-day the 
rather common occurrence of “obstructed bowels.” 1 have chosen 
this subject in preference to many others with more sounding names 
because of its frequency and great importance. 1 am well aw^are 
that many of you, particularly those in large colliery practice, must 
have seen a great number of those cases, and in all probability are 
more fitted than I am to treat the subject; but it is one that has 
always interested me, and upon which 1 have often thought, and I 
know of no disease in which the Veterinary Surgeon shines to greater 
advantage than in this one. To see the caution yet firmness with 
which he acts, at once stamps him as a master of his profession. 
