12-1 WEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL AOSOCIATION. 
The prevailing indications of disease were those of a rheu¬ 
matic affection terminating in paralysis. 
The next meeting was fixed for the 15th of April, when 
Mr. Thompson promised to introduce a paper on tetanus. 
(Signed) George Armitage. 
WEST OF SCOTLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
[official report.] 
The Quarterly Meeting and Annual Dinner of the West 
of Scotland Veterinary Medical Association was held at the 
“ Crow ” Hotel, Glasgow, on the 30tli December, 1863. Mr. 
Robinson, of Greenock, occupied the chair. 
After some preliminary business, the election of office¬ 
bearers for the ensuing year was proceeded with, when the 
following gentlemen were elected :—Mr. Alexander Robinson, 
Greenock, President; Messrs. Dobie, Rrye, and Sharp, Vice- 
Presidents ; Mr. Alexander Pottie, Secretary; Mr. Andrew 
Robb, Treasurer; and Messrs. Mitchell, Anderson, Wilson, 
Blackie, Cockburn, and Bryde, Directors. 
The treasurer submitted the financial account, which 
showed the society's funds to be in a good state, no less than 
£28 being in the hands of the bankers. As there was not 
any immediate prospect of such a sum being required for 
ordinary disbursements, the annual subscriptions being more 
than sufficient to meet all claims, the secretary proposed that 
a portion of it should occasionally be applied for testing the 
value of certain medicines, or proving the truth or error of 
cures said to be effected, either surgically or otherwise. In the 
course of his remarks the secretary observed that agents 
which are not possessed by many as single individuals of the 
profession, but which might be procured at the society's 
expense, ought to be given trial to; more especially as we 
read at times, in our monthly publications, of new methods 
of treatment—methods which often are, without doubt, of 
much practical utility. Because, however, we do not see 
them used; or too often it may be, because we doubt their 
success, knowing that what is written and spoken often suit 
not for practice but theory; or, perhaps, because we are 
prejudiced in favour of old notions and methods, these, and it 
