SITTINGS OF TIIE COUNCIL. 
471 
Is not this inauspicious termination of anasarca a proof of the 
modification in composition the blood undergoes under the influence 
of the suppression of the cutaneous exhalations 1 
This proof is put in a more satisfactory light by the account 
given by M. Roche-Lubin of some young lambs which were ex- 
posed, after being shorn, to a humid icy cold succeeding upon sum- 
mer heat. These animals all died; and their autopsies disclosed 
nothing further than a blackened condition of blood throughout the 
whole circulatory system, with stagnation in some organs, such as 
the liver, the spleen, or abdominal vascular system. 
Is not this idiopathic disease which supervenes on the repercus- 
sive action of cold very analogous, both in its causation and its ac- 
companying phenomena, to that which we produce artificially by 
suppressing the exhalent functions of the skin 1 
From the aforegoing disclosures, which might be multiplied if 
there was need of it, we learn that the regularity or perversion of 
the functions of the skin exercise an all-powerful influence over the 
conservation or derangement of the health ; and that very many 
diseases can be traced to no other origin than the interruption, more 
or less persistent, of these functions. 
Recueilde Medecine Vettrinaire, April 1850. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Quarterly Meeting , held 25th June , 1850, 
For THE PURPOSE OF “ receiving the Report of the Deputation 
sent to Edinburgh “ electing a Registrar;” “ voting an Allowance 
to the Secretary ;” and “ other business.” 
Members PRESENT: — Messrs. Henderson, Simonds, Wilkinson, 
Burley, Sylvester, James Turner, Cherry, sen., A. Cherry, Kent, 
Tyndal, Field, Percivall, and the Secretary. 
In the absence of the President (Mr. Thos. Turner), Mr. Tyndal 
(one of the Vice-Presidents) was voted into the chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed by the 
Chairman. 
The Report was then read by the Secretary. 
“ Report of the Deputation to Edinburgh. 
“ Your Secretary, in accordance with the directions of the Council, 
attended the meeting of the Board of Examiners for Scotland 
