66G NORTH OF ENGLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
subject which the veterinary surgeon in practice should approach very 
cautiously. Farmers are proverbial grumblers, and any embargo placed 
upon one would render him the more tenacious, and particularly if his 
own veterinary surgeon had the power of placing the stock on his farm 
in quarantine would his utmost vengeance fall upon him, and to the cost 
of the practitioner, however just he might be. Undoubtedly the most- 
suitable persons for inspectors are qualified veterinary surgeons, a staff 
of which, with powers from Government, would render efficient aid, but 
only when the whole of their time was given up to the duties. 
In his opinion the foot-and-mouth disease possessed remarkable powers 
and eccentric characters, but, nevertheless, it was very destructive to the 
profits of the owner. Out of upwards of one hundred feeding cattle belong¬ 
ing to his employer, the Marchioness of Londonderry, very few escaped the 
complaint. In one large byre five or six standing next to others badly 
affected never took the disease; one, however, of the worst died from 
extreme prostration, arising in consequence of profuse salivation. 
When the time arrived, in May last, for the sale of the whole, no differ¬ 
ence could be detected in their condition; but it must be remarked the 
feet were but slightly affected, and never required dressing. The treat¬ 
ment adopted was the administration of two drachms of Ferri Sulphas, 
once or twice a day in water, which acted as a good wash to the mouth 
as well as a tonic. 
At this stage dinner was announced, when the company adjourned, and 
were joined by Professors Simonds and Varnell, R. L. Hunt, Esq., 
President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, &c. 
THE DINNER 
was served up in the large dining-hall of the hotel. On the right of the 
President were seated Professor Simonds, R. L. Hunt, and E. C. Dray, 
Esqs.; and on the left Professors Varnell and John Gamgee, and Thos. 
Greaves, Esq. Mr. Thos. Thompson, Sunderland, occupied the vice-chair. 
On the removal of the cloth, 
W The President proposed “The Queen,” the pattern of sovereigns, and 
brightest example to the mothers of England. (Cheers.) 
He next gave the “Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales, and the rest 
of the Royal Family.” The Princess, although but recently become 
one of us, possessed the love and sympathy of the whole nation; 
for while she, as it were, was compelled to wear a smile of satisfac¬ 
tion and happiness, as becoming her position here, no one could estimate 
the harrowing sensations which were doubtless gnawing at the heart, 
in consideration for her father, mother, brothers, and sisters, and friends 
at home, and her country, now mixed up in the horrors of war and 
bloodshed. (Cheers.) 
The President afterwards proposed “The Army, Navy, and Rifle 
Volunteers.” 
Mr. C. Stephenson briefly responded. 
Then followed from the Chair the toast of the evening—“ The Veteri¬ 
nary Professors of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.” 
The President reviewed, in most glowing terms, the career of Professor 
Simonds, as the senior professor, and in connection with works which 
had become an authority in veterinary matters, such as his treatises on * The 
Teeth,’ ‘ Variola Ovina,’ ‘ The Rot of Sheep,’ &c., together with the valu¬ 
able assistance he had rendered in regard to the late outbreak of smallpox 
among the sheep of the southern counties. No matter whether we regarded 
him as a teacher in the occupation of the professional chair, or as a friend 
