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brane, should be made the channel by which acrid and partially 
digested food is to be returned. 
The caecum was thought, by the author of the Essay, to act as 
a second stomach. The nutritive parts of the aliment were said 
to be taken up both by lacteals and veins, and absorption was 
referred to eudosmosis. 
December 2 d. 
Pursuant to notice, a Special Meeting of the Society this day 
was held in the Theatre. 
Mr. Taylor, M.C.M., was called to the chair. Mr. Habin 
moved the following resolution : — 
“That we the constituents of the London Veterinary Medical 
Society, reviewing the long and efficient services of our Presi- 
dent, William Sewell, Esq., do deem it desirable that a testi- 
monial expressive of our thanks and gratitude be presented to 
him.” 
This was seconded by Mr. Lucas, and carried by acclamation. 
A committee was subsequently appointed to carry the above 
into effect, and the necessary officers chosen. 
December 8 th. 
On this evening The Veterinarian from its commence- 
ment was laid on the table, presented by Mr. Youatt to the 
Society, for which the thanks of the Members were directed to 
be returned by the Secretary. 
The subject for discussion was Enteritis, by Mr. Raddall. 
The argument which followed was useful, and the treatment 
advocated by him founded upon experience. He had, after free 
depletion, given opium, in doses of from 5 j to 5ij, with the 
greatest success. He apprehended but little from the astringent 
effects usually attributed to this agent, believing the constipated 
state of the bowels in this disease to be as frequently an effect as 
a cause of inflammation ; and he contended that, if the irritation 
set up was allayed by opium, the healthy function of the intes- 
tines would soon return. Should it, however, be the case that 
an unnaturally torpid state of the bowels remained, this might 
be obviated by a dose of linseed oil. 
There were not wanting objectors to the administration of 
opium, who conceived that it might tend to irritate an already 
inflamed part ; or, at least, to protract in the intestinal canal the 
continuance of those matters which might have had somewhat 
to do in the production of the disease, and whose presence would 
assuredly aggravate it. These gentlemen, however, readily con- 
fessed they had never had recourse to it in their practice; and all 
