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H. B. Murray, Surgeon, and Iv. J. Urquhart, Veterinary Student. A large 
number of letters of apology received by the Hon. Sec. were read to the 
meeting. 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and affirmed, Mr. 
Dunlop vacated the chair in favour of the incoming President for the 
current year, J. Doris, Esq., Cookstown. 
The President read his inaugural address, dealing with several of the 
leading questions now on the tapis in a masterly manner. The President 
afterwards exhibited an unique specimen of scirrhous cord. 
An interesting discussion followed, in which Professor Williams, Messrs. 
Chambers, Simcocks, Dunlop, Greaves, and Kidney took part. 
Mr. J. B. Dunlop then related a most interesting case of puncturing the 
bladder per rectum. 
Professor Williams, Mr. Greaves, and others, criticised the case as 
recounted by Mr. Dunlop, the general opinion being very favorable to the 
successful operation as performed by Mr. Dunlop. 
Professor Williams next addressed the meeting on the practical treat¬ 
ment of disease, &c. The professor exhibited Volkmann’s instrument, which 
he specially advocated as being efficacious in the surgical treatment of 
splint. He also exhibited Chassaignac’s drainage tube, and especially recom¬ 
mended its use in obstinate cases of quittor, &c. In the treatment of wounds 
Professor Williams prefers as a deodoriser carbolised water to carbolised 
oil. The professor next touched on the subject of constipation, expressing 
his opinion that the removal of constipation by forcible means was often 
calculated to defeat its own ends, aloes, for example, being often eliminated 
from the system by the kidneys. He believed in the non-purgative treat¬ 
ment in enteritis, and said, to secure a beneficial result by the administration 
of opium, it must be exhibited in large doses, say—Pulv. Opii 5 j, or Tinct. 
Opii 3 viij, or in injection of morphia gr. viij to be used. Professor Williams 
also referred to tetanus as being peculiar to certain districts and drew 
attention to the different methods of treatment now adopted—nitrite of 
amyl, Calabar bean, subcutaneous injection of morphia, and drew special 
attention to the good results which he had seen follow the administration 
of bromide of potassium. 
Dr. Core, Dr. Torrens, Messrs. Greaves, Simcocks, Dunlop, and the 
Secretary having spoken to the address by Professor Williams, 
Mr. Greaves , P.R.C.V.S., read a paper on “ Veterinary Medical Asso¬ 
ciation,” drawing special attention to the “ penal clause,” compulsory 
apprenticeship, preliminary examination in hands of council and examiners 
to be veterinary surgeons only. Mr. Greaves spoke on veterinary medical 
associations as follows :—In rising to make a few observations on veteri- 
naey medical associations, although to many of you I am personally un¬ 
known, I am not really so to all, since it will be remembered that I had the 
honour to take part in the inauguration of another, in fact, the only other 
veterinary medical association in Ireland in 1869. I may remark that I 
entertain strong opinions of the great value and importance of these asso¬ 
ciations, having taken a deep interest and an active part in them from the 
first, i.e. over twenty years, by being either a member or an honorary asso¬ 
ciate of every association in England and in Scotland. I may, therefore, 
be permitted to feel that I can speak of them with some authority; and at 
my time of life, having been actively engaged nearly forty-six years in my 
profession, much of this time I have occupied (as President of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons or member of Council) a leading position, 
acting a part which has in some degree given a tone and direction to my 
profession, I hope and ask that I may be excused if I assume to myself a 
standpoint which will enable me without egotism to offer some advice to 
