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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 
THE UNITED STATES VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The sixteenth annual meeting of this Association was called 
at 12 o’clock, m., in the lecture-room of the American Veterinary 
College, 141 West Fifty-fourth St., New York City, on Tuesday, 
September 17th, 1878, with the President, C. P. Lyman, in th e 
chair. Members present were : L. T. Bell, J. F. Budd, J. C. 
Corlies, O. H. Flagg, J. D. Hopkins, A. Liautard, C. P. Lyman, 
G. Penniman, C. Burden, J. B. Cosgrove, W. J. Coates, A. 
A. Holcombe, C. H. Hall, A. Lockhardt, IP. H. Lawrence, L. V. 
Plageman, J. L. Bobertson, E. Fr Thayer, J. H. Stickney, and 
T. S. Very. 
The minutes of the previous meeting, held in Boston, on 
March 19th, were read and accepted without revision, as also was 
the report of the Comitia Minora. 
The Committee on Diseases, by its Chairman, T. S. Very, of 
Boston, Mass., reported as follows :— 
Mr. President :—Having been appointed on the Committee 
to report on Diseases, with instructions to report on the diseases 
of horses’ feet, I beg leave to present the following: 
There has not occurred, in my practice, neither have I seen, 
any unusual case of lameness worthy of particular record or com¬ 
ment, during the past year. Most of the cases that I have seen, 
were of the kind commonly met with, some of which have yielded 
surprisingly to simple treatment, others of which have resisted 
remedial means that were tried. 
One might suppose that there exists at all times a proportion¬ 
ate amount of laiheness to the number of animals in use; but I 
have an impression that the percentage of lameness to-day is 
much less than it was some years ago. Certainly, this is the 
case, so far as as my observation goes, in the city and vicinity 
where I live. 
In this, it is possible that I am mistaken, but I am quite sure 
that the percentage is not nearly so great among the houses used 
on the street cars, as it was live years ago. 
