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larity. There will only be seen a portion either of the ileum, 
or the jejunum very seldom, the duodenum about four to 
six inches in length contracted. The contracted portion 
looks very white, and sometimes the contraction will be so severe 
as to have produced intussusception. This contraction is 
not always kept up after death ; when it is, the part feels 
knotty. To a non-professional it seems strange that there 
should be nothing more visible to account for death ; but 
such, however, is the fact. When large quantities of worms 
have caused death, the small intestines will not, as a rule, 
be found in this cramped state, but they will mostly be found 
in the caecum, and that organ will be noted to be in a highly 
inflamed state. 
Cases of this description ought never to have been con- 
founded with colic, as they have a tendency to mislead both the 
amateur practical veterinarian. 
THE WANT OF VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCI- 
ATIONS IN THE SOUTH. 
By the Same. 
It is a notorious fact that veterinary surgeons living in the 
metropolis and its subjacent counties possess fewer means of 
intercommunion than their brethren at any distance from the 
capital ; and, as the result, we find they are less sociable with 
each other, and more distrustful. It is true there are nu- 
merous gentlemen, in every sense of the word, who have 
attained popularity by their talents, their address, and their 
unceasing devotion to their professional pursuits, who yet 
lack this one and indispensable qualification. Surely this is 
not as it ought to be; we have been taught together at our 
colleges, have been examined by our examiners, and yet we 
have not the moral courage to help a brother when any of 
the vexations of the profession occur to him. Again, we have 
the same difficulties to contend with, the same hopes, and 
fears, and community of interests. Why should we not, from 
being as at present a heterogeneous mass, become a homo- 
geneous one? It only lacks the will. At the present mo- 
ment great changes are taking place, and it behoves us all to 
make an effort to raise ourselves in the estimation of the 
public. Let each unitedly put his hand to the plough, and 
endeavour by all the means in his power to carry the Veteri- 
nary Bill, which we have not heard of for a long time. But, 
