IRISH CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 259 
of the Veterinary College, Edinburgh, dated January 21st, 
with reference to the subject of preliminary examinations, 
recommending the appointment of a General Examining 
Board. 
Professor Spooner asked what reply Glasgow had given. 
The President said the Principal of the Glasgow College 
stated to the deputation that he would assent to anything 
that the other two schools agreed to. 
Mr. Wilkinson proposed, “ That the letters be referred 
to the Deputation Committee, with a view to the taking of 
further proceed mgs.” 
Professor Brown seconded this. The proposal was agreed 
to. By order of the Council, 
W. H. Coates, Secretary. 
IRISH CENTRAL VETERINARY MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
<COLIC AND ENTERITIS IN THE HORSE. 
Read by Mr. Malcolm before the Irish Central Veterinary Medical Association, 
Dec. 7th, 1869. 
Occupied, as I am in a country practice, entailing long and 
fatiguing journeys, I regret I could not devote that time and study so 
essential to the production of a good paper; so you must be content 
with a very inferior one, which, however, I hope will give ample 
scope for a brilliant discussion. 
The diseases I have chosen for consideration are of everyday 
occurrence ; that fact, I hope, will not lower their importance in 
your estimation, but rather induce you to give them your deepest 
consideration. 
There are no diseases to which animals are subject that are more 
heartrending to look upon than acute diseases of the alimentary 
canal. When we come to look upon a poor dumb animal writhing 
under pain, the seat of which he has no language to tell save by 
signs, which the experienced man fails not to understand, it is 
gratifying to know we can afford relief, and the humane man hastens 
to do it. 
Colic, commonly known by the names bellyache, gripes, fret, 
cramp, spasmodic and flatulent colic, &c., &c., is a disease of the 
intestines, or that portion of the alimentary canal commencing at 
the pyloric end of the stomach, and terminating in the anus. 
The intestines are divided into large and small. 
The small intestines, which are seventy-two feet long, are again 
subdivided into the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. 
