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LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
The ordinary quarterly meeting of this Association was held at the 
Medical Institute on the 14th November, Joseph Welsby, Esq., Presi¬ 
dent, in the chair. 
There were present: Messrs. Elam, Morgan, Reynolds, and Stevenson, 
of Liverpool; T. Greaves, T. Taylor, S. Locke, and E. Faulkner, 
Manchester; Dr. Greenway, West Derby; W. Dacre, Altrincham; 
Jas. Storrar and T. E. J. Lloyd, Chester; W. Whittle, Worsley; W. 
Woods, Wigan ; J. W. Hill, Wolverhampton; S. M. Wilson, 12th 
Lancers ; S. Knott, Royal Artillery, and the Secretary. 
Letters of apology for non-attendance were received from a number 
of gentlemen expressing their regret that they were unable to be 
present. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
Mr. Mam then communicated the following notes of a case of “Frac¬ 
ture of the sesamoid bones of both fore legs in a cob mare,” exhibiting 
the specimens. He said—On the 21st of June last, a grey cob, 14 
hands 2 inches high, 6 years old, was brought to my infirmary suffering 
from a slight cold, the owner informing me that he intended to sell it as 
soon as it had quite recovered. On carefully examining it in the loose 
box I found that it appeared to move slightly lame or tender, but, as 
the owner had not mentioned anything regarding that when he left it, 
I thought that it might be of no consequence, and that it would likely 
pass off with a few days rest. A few days after the owner called, and 
1 drew his attention to the fact, when he said, “Oh, yes; she had gone 
a little tender about a month ago, first on one foot and then on the 
other.” He had her shoes taken off, and her feet carefully examined, 
but could find nothing to account for the tenderness. He then had a 
pair of india-rubber pads put on, thinking that they might improve 
her, and she went very well after. However, as there was a little 
swelling and heat about the fetlock-joints, I (Mr. Elam) had a cooling 
lotion and cold-water bandages applied to them. In ten days she 
appeared to have quite recovered her usual health, and the lameness had 
almost completely passed off, when the owner called and said that he 
would send his son for her in the morning, which he did, and my groom 
remarked how much improved she walked as she was being led out of 
the yard. In less than half an hour after a messenger came back 
to say that the mare lay down in the stable as soon as she got there, and 
broke out into a profuse perspiration, and that she appeared to go 
suddenly lame just before she arrived at the stable. The owner 
requested my groom to take her back to my infirmary, but before she 
had got half the way, her fetlocks came in contact with the ground, and 
she was unable to proceed any further. A float was then procured, 
into which she was placed, and taken to the infirmary. When I re¬ 
turned I found her lying quietly in the box, and, so far as one could 
observe, very comfortably. I got her lifted up on to her feet with great 
difficulty, but every step she took the toes of both fore feet turned up, 
and the inferior extremities of the large metacarpal bones came ip 
contact with the ground. 
