LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 8G1 
or later bring their own retribution; it is unrighteous and discre¬ 
ditable to both parties, and no man of an honorable mind could 
stoop to do business in such a mean, disreputable manner. Depend 
upon it, it is suicidal to our professional interests and honour ; you 
are doing, so far as this act of yours goes, a gross injustice to your 
fellow-man, and you are branding your own name with infamy, 
you are trying to bring down your own profession to penury and 
ruin ; you must incur disrespect while living, and be despised when 
dead. Is there any one within hearing of my voice, or who may 
read these w'ords hereafter, ready to answer “ It matters but little 
whether we possess the respect of our fellow-veterinary-surgeons 
or not so long as we get our turn served, and it is a matter of sheer 
indifference to us whether our memories are respected or disre¬ 
spected w r hen we are in our graves” ? To this despicable creed I 
can offer no argument—it can only be met by silence; but to 
the individual entertaining such views, I can only say he is 
utterly beneath the contempt of every man possessed of a well-con¬ 
stituted mind. There is no hope for such a one ; he may be safely 
left to himself and to his own reflections (and this is the course I 
should recommend). By his fellow-practioners he is sure to be 
stigmatised as one alike devoid of honour and utterly unworthy of 
sympathy. 
I trust that in your Association, as well as in our ow T n at Man¬ 
chester, there w r ill never be found one single member to tarnish 
its fair name, but that each will flourish as the • green bay-tree, and 
much good be the necessary result. Let us hope that these institu¬ 
tions w ill become what their warmest advocates most ardently desire 
them to be, viz., mutual improvement societies in every sense of 
the v r ord, and that the interchange of ideas which will take place at 
the meetings will be fruitful of much good, as thereby we shall be 
taught to respect ourselves, respect one another, and to love our 
common profession; and when life’s toils are over, and the things 
of earth are fast fading from our vision, we shall be cheered by the 
consciousness that no act of ours has tended to tarnish the fair 
fame or honour of our profession; but that, on the contrary, we 
have on all occasions endeavoured to do our duty. 
A unanimous vote of thanks was, on the motion of Mr. Friend, 
awarded to Mr. Greaves for his excellent address ; after which, 
Mr. Simpson, jun., read a carefully prepared paper on “ Colic and 
Enteritis in the Horse,” which was warmly applauded, and followed 
by an animated, interesting, and instructive discussion. 
After a vote of thanks to the essayist for his able paper, and to 
the President for his services in the chair, the meeting terminated. 
Notice was given that Mr. Brydon w r ould read a paper at the next 
meeting on “ Laminitis.” 
(Signed) George Morgan, 
lion, Sec. 
