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sider the matter in all its bearings, and to draw up a form to present to 
the Council.”—Carried unanimously. 
A vote of thanks was accorded Mr. Dollar for his kindness in bringing 
before the members a subject of such vast importance; also to Mr. Tom 
Taylor and Mr. J. B. Wolstenholme. 
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman the meeting terminated. 
Sam. Locke, Hon. Sec. 
NORTH OF ENGLAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The quarterly meeting of this Association was held at the Turk’s 
Head Hotel, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Friday, August 27th. 
The President, Mr. D. Dudgeon, occupied the chair. There were 
also present: Messrs. H. Hunter, A. Chivas, F. Goffon, C. Stevenson, 
W. Wheatley, F. Corbett, G. Elphick, F. Nisbet, T. Foreman, M. 
Hedbey, W. F. Mulvey, F. Mitchell, the Secretary, and Professor 
Walley. 
Apologies were received from Messrs. W. Awde and J. Malcolm. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
Mr. W. Grieve, of Blaydon-on-Tyne, was unanimously elected a 
member of the Association. 
A committee, consisting of the President, Messrs. C. Stephenson, H. 
Hunter, and the Secretary, was appointed to wait on the Registrar of 
the School of Medicine in Newcastle, and ask him for the use of a room 
in which to hold the meetings of this Association, 
Professor Walley was then called upon to deliver his lecture on “ Dis¬ 
eases of the Hock.”* Before doing so he desired to express to the 
members of the Association the great pleasure he had in being among 
them, and also to say that he was not going to lay down any dogmatic 
rules, but simply express his ideas in the hope of teaching something, 
also of learning something in return from the discussion which he hoped 
would follow. Before commencing his lecture he laid before the mem¬ 
bers some interesting specimens ; amongst others, there was a fine speci- 
of an ante-mortem clot from the left ventricle, extending along the ante¬ 
rior and posterior aorta and iliacs, &c. The history of the case was as 
follows:—A Belgian cart-horse had an attack of bronchitis in March, 
and again in May, and recovered. In August he took ill again, was 
coughing, the membranes were yellow, and there were indications of 
another attack of bronchitis ; but the animal in a few days became much, 
wasted. The pulse went up to 140, the temperature to 105°. Ausculta¬ 
tion revealed patchy consolidation in both lungs; emaciation went 
quickly on. The opinion formed was that the case was one of breaking 
up of the lung tissue, or of abscesses with disease of the liver. 
On post mortem being made there were found multiple abscesses in 
the lungs, with the large ante-mortem clot as above described, which, no 
doubt, had been produced by the absorption of septic matter from the 
lungs, aided by weakness of the heart’s action. 
He also exhibited a clot from the pulmonary artery, and, with the 
* Up to the time of going to press the Lecture had not been received 
by us.—E ds. 
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