LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
The usual quarterly meeting of this Association was held at the 
Medical Institute, Hope Street, on August 15th, 1879, Joseph 
Welsley, Esq., President, in the chair. 
The following gentlemen were present:—Messrs. Morgan, Reynolds, 
Elam, Simpson, Stevenson, of Liverpool; Professor Walley, Veterinary 
College, Edinburgh; Dr. Greenway, West Derby ; Messrs. T. Greaves, 
Manchester ; B. Kettle, Market Drayton ; A. H. Darwell, Merthwick ; 
J. P. Young, Clitheroe; W. G. Dixon and F. Menzies, St. Helen’s ; E. 
Langford and John Pilkington, veterinary students; a Friend; and the 
Secretary. 
Letters of apology were received from a number of members and 
gentlemen, who regretted their inability to be present owing to some other 
meetings of a public character being held on the same date. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
Mr. T. E. J. Lloyd, Chester, was elected a member of the Asso¬ 
ciation. 
A letter from the Secretary of the Medical Institute, relative to a 
proposed donation by our Association to one of the medical charities of 
Liverpool, was read and discussed, when it was unanimously agreed to 
send a donation to the Children’s Infirmary of Liverpool. 
Professor Walley then read a paper on “Ammonia, its Uses in Practice, 
with a consideration of the Stimulative System in the Treatment of 
Disease.” 
The Professor, in treating his subject, considered it under the follow¬ 
ing heads: 
I. Toxicologically—the effects of over-doses of ammonia. 
II. Physiologically—the effects of ammonia on the system generally. 
III. Therapeutically—where administered alone or in combination 
with other agents. 
IV. The application of the facts relative to the action and uses of 
ammonia to the stimulative system in the treatment of disease generally. 
Mr. Thos. Greaves , in opening the discussion, said that their thanks 
were due to Prof. Walley for bringing such a very interesting and prac¬ 
tical paper before them. Ammonia had been a great favourite with him 
ever since he entered the profession, and he did not consider that Pro¬ 
fessor Walley had over-estimated its therapeutical value in the least, 
notwithstanding the very high praise which he had bestowed upon it. 
Mr. Greaves said that Liq. Ammonise fort, had formed one of the 
ingredients of his gripe drink for forty-five years, and he considered that 
with the carbonate of ammonia you can accomplish everything that you 
can with calomel, viz. increased action of the secretory organs, and even 
purging, without producing that nausea which accompanies the adminis¬ 
tration of calomel. In low fevers in horses and cattle carbonate of 
ammonia is of great value, and if there is a fetid condition of the mouth 
accompanying any disease carbonate of ammonia given in solution will 
remove the fetid condition directly. He had observed, however, that 
after the administration of carbonate of ammonia for some time the venous 
blood became blacker, and in some cases animals have died from apparent 
syncope—in his opinion—by this darkening and thickening of the blood 
following the administration of carbonate of ammonia. In making a post- 
