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not, from inadvertence or haste, overlooked or mistaken some 
symptom ; but this is not an object for congratulation, nor do we 
find it so among other professions. Competition may, and does, 
in the other professions, make men run hard with each other; but 
the private interests of its professors are always made subservient to 
those of the profession at large, and this is what I hope these 
meetings will ultimately effect for our profession. 
Before concluding I may be permitted to express our great appre- 
ciation of the advantage which, thanks to the Royal Dublin Society, 
we possess in holding our meetings in this building, and severing 
first the connection which so lowers the profession in the minds of 
many — the “ pot-house association.” 
Since our last meeting we have to regret the loss of one of our mem- 
bers, Mr. Farrell, who, from the first idea of its establishment, gave 
it his most cordial support. Holding one of the highest positions 
among the members of his profession, both for his professional 
knowledge and general rectitude of conduct, his death will make 
a blank we cannot easily fill up. Mr. Farrell was the first to apply 
to our subject that important discovery in medicine, the transfusion 
of blood from a healthy subject to one suffering from the effects of 
debility, which in many instances he carried out with the best results ; 
and also for the discovery of one of the most potent remedies in 
acute inflammatory action, Farrelh’s vesicant holds a place in our 
practice which, up to this time, no other possesses that we are 
aware, counteracts the ill effect of inflammatory disease. 
We have likewise to regret the death of Mr. M‘Dermott, of Belfast, 
whom, unfortunately, we had not the pleasure of seeing amongst 
us ; he joined us warmly in the onset of the Association. Unfor- 
tunately sickness overtook him, and he passed away without an 
opportunity of imparting to us the benefit of his valuable ideas 
upon the treatment of disease gained through a lengthened course 
of practice. 
Mr. Malcolm read his paper on “ Colic and Enteritis.” 
The reading of the essay was followed by a long and very inte- 
resting discussion, in which nearly all present took part. 
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chair- 
man and Essayist. 
The next meeting of the Association will take place during the 
Punchestown Race week, in April next. 
[We have been obliged to postpone the publication of Mr. 
Malcolm’s essay in consequence of the length of the report of the 
Council meeting of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.] 
