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cular system, submissive, when in health, to the empire of the 
will, become the seat of the most painful feeling, difficult to de- 
fine, or even to form a satisfactory conception of, but plainly in- 
dicated, and its intensity sufficiently proved when he fixed his 
teeth on the spot of which it was the seat. 
In these four cases we have had the opportunity of applying 
opium in doses in which we should not otherwise have dared to 
exhibit it; but the extraordinary nervous excitement under which 
the animal laboured, would not permit us to hesitate. We par- 
ticularly refer to Case III. It was employed with equal advan- 
tage in Case IV ; although the disease was, in truth, of a milder 
form in that case. It would, however, have fatally triumphed 
had it not been for the prompt administration of this drug. 
Although, in the present state of our art, we are not able to 
follow with mathematical precision the action of any medicine 
on the frame, we have a right to suppose that, in the cases which 
have been described, and in others that may be brought under 
our cognizance, the destruction of the tissues by gangrene ap- 
pearing to be attributable to the manner in which the vital prin- 
ciple is attacked, the administration of certain medicaments may 
produce a modification favourable to the maintenance or the re- 
turn of health. 
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By J. Grellier, Esq., M.R.C.S. 
[Continued from p. 389.] 
Of the Absorbents. 
They are divided into two sets: those on the surface of the 
bowels, which are occupied in absorbing chyle from the food and 
conveying it to the blood, are termed lacteals, from the resemblance 
which chyle bears to milk. The red, which are employed over 
every other part of the body, are termed lymphatics. 
The first covers the whole surface of the bowels, and may be 
frequently seen in the small intestines of a horse that has died 
shortly after eating. In their texture they are transparent, very 
strong, and full of valves, for the purpose explained in describing 
the veins. 
