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means let them do it, but they should know whom they were employing. 
He moved, “That the Association petition the Royal College of Veteri¬ 
nary Surgeons in favour of the penal clause.” 
Mr. H. Hunter, Mr. W. F. Mulvey , and the Secretary , spoke in a similar 
strain to Mr. Gofton. 
On the motions being put to the meeting, Mr. Stephenson’s was 
carried by the casting vote of the Chairman; but it was ultimately 
agreed, as there was a small attendance of members, that the discussion 
should stand over. G. R. Dudgeon, Hon. Sec. 
NORTH OF IRELAND VETERINARY MEDICAL 
SOCIETY. 
A meeting of the North of Ireland Veterinary Medical Society was 
held in the Thistle Hotel, Belfast, on the evening of August 25th, 1880. 
A large number of professional gentlemen were present, including several 
members of the medical profession. 
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and approved of, 
Mr. J. B. Dunlop , Vice-President (who occupied the chair in the un¬ 
avoidable absence of the President, Mr. J. Doris, Cookstown), related a 
case, and showed the specimen, of a membranous cast from the bowels 
of a cow, ten yards in length. Mr. Dunlop also related a peculiar case 
of ulceration in the palate of a bull. 
Mr. Wm. J. Johnson showed a calculus (which had been taken from the 
bowels of a horse) of great size. The case was one which occurred in 
the practice of the Secretary, the patient being a post-horse. It had 
never shown any symptoms of abdominal pain until a week before death, 
about which time it sustained an injury by the vehicle to which it was 
attached coming in contact with a car. Symptoms of colic followed, 
enteritis supervening, followed by death. 
The Secretary next related a case of poisoning in a pony, and said the 
symptoms which he noted during the fifteen minutes the pony lived after 
he saw it were almost identical with those occurring in poisoning by 
aconite. 
The members present were of opinion that aconite was the agent, but 
no definite idea could be given as to how the aconite could have got 
mixed with the provender supplied to the pony, which was the same as 
that given to several other horses at the same establishment. 
Professor McCall , Principal of the Veterinary College, Glasgow, who 
was kindly present, read an interesting and highly instructive paper 
on “Cholera in the Dog,” and illustrated his subject by exhibiting 
several diagrams and wax specimens. 
A unanimous vote of thanks was awarded to Professor McCall for the 
reading of his paper, when he expressed a hope that at some future 
period he might follow the above subject, and introduce “ Stringhalt” 
and “ Shivering” in the horse. 
Votes of thanks were also passed to the members who had sent com¬ 
munications, and to Mr. Dunlop for his dignified conduct in the chair. 
Present: Professor McCall; Drs. Spedding, Whitla, Ball, and 
Gilmore; Messrs. Dunlop, Chambers, Gillespie, Kernohan, Giffen, 
Johnson, Matthews, Kidney, Stringer (student), Urquhart (student), and 
G. Johnstone (student). Geo. Kidney, Hon. Sec. 
