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THE LANCASHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
OFFICIAL REPORT. 
The members of the above association held their seventh 
meeting at the Brunswick Hotel, Manchester, on the 1st of 
June. The following members and visitors were present:— 
The President, T. Greaves, Esq.; Messrs. Gould, Irlam- 
soth Height; Nuttall, Rawtenstall; Brooks, Pilkington; 
Greaves, Altrincham; Harwell, Knutsford, Litt, Shrewsbury; 
Cartwright, Whitchurch; Dunn, Tarporley; P.Taylor, Hay¬ 
cock, and Dixon, Manchester; Fleming, F.R.G.S., F.A.S.L., 
V.S. King's Own Hussars; A. Challinor and W. Challinor, 
Pendlebury ; J. Taylor, Oldham; Morgan, Liverpool; R. 
Hampson, Manchester; and T. Taylor, Hon. Secretary, 
Manchester. 
At the conclusion of the ordinary business of the association, 
which included the election of new members and the nomina¬ 
tion of others, the further discussion of Mr. Haycock's paper 
on pleuro-pneumonia was resumed. The discussion which 
followed was very lengthy and interesting. Inoculation was 
severely attacked by some of the members, and was ably 
defended by Mr. Cartwright, of Whitchurch, and Mr. Dunn, 
of Tarporley. These gentlemen, having used it repeatedly, 
spoke in good terms of its beneficial results. 
A great deal was said respecting the contagious nature of 
the disease, and several different opinions given. Upon this 
part of the discussion, Mr. Litt, of Shrewsbury, gave some 
capital ideas. Mr. Fleming and Mr. P. Taylor also expressed 
their opinions upon the point in an instructive manner. Upon 
the whole, however, nothing positive resulted from this 
portion of the discussion; one party contending that the 
disease was contagious, and another that it was not. - 
The treatment of the disease proved another stumbling- 
block in the discussion, every practitioner having his own 
particular fancy, and thinking that the treatment he adopted 
was the best. All kinds of remedies were adduced as being 
beneficial, but no decided success could be said to belong 
to any. 
The essayist, in replying to the different speakers, remarked 
that he had treated the disease in all manner of ways, and with 
all classes of medicine, but still alwavs with the same uncertain 
result. His opinion was that the great secret lay in giving 
good food and nourishment, and if this did not succeed, he 
would have the animal destroved. 
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