472 VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
Professor Coleman was elected President of the Society for the 
ensuing session; Messrs. John Field, Jun., W. J. Goodwin, John 
Percivall, and James Turner were elected Vice-Presidents; 
Messrs. W. Field, Green, Henderson, Langworthy, W. Percivall, 
and T. Turner w T ere placed on the Committee; and Mr. Youatt 
was appointed Secretary. 
Considerable time having been occupied in the necessary busi¬ 
ness of the first meeting, Mr. W. Percivall’s paper on Soundness 
was not read. Mr. Woodin related a case in which the rectum of 
a mare was extensively lacerated by a drunken farrier, in the 
operation of back-raking. A great quantity of blood was dis¬ 
charged, and the mare lay groaning, and in dreadful pain, for 
three days. The peritoneal coat, however, was not tom through; 
but the faeces dropped within the pelvis. He used fomentations 
and unctuous applications, and in five weeks the mare resumed 
her work. 
Mr. Lythe was once consulted respecting a horse that died 
within five hours after covering a mare. He saw the animal two 
or three hours before its death; and from the appearance of blood 
at the anus he was induced to examine the rectum. He found 
three lacerations through all the coats, about the middle of the 
rectum, and beneath the hollow of the sacrum. He could pass 
his hand through one of them into the abdominal cavity. The 
other intestines were perfectly free from disease; but in the biliary 
duct were several gall-stones, and one as large as a hen's egg, 
which had formed for itself a kind of sac, and did not obstruct 
the passage of the bile. This horse was subject to occasional but 
violent fits of kicking, for which no one could account. 
Mr. W. Percivall then read a case of Ascites, one of the sequelae 
of Pneumonia, which, and the discussion on it, shall be given in 
a future number. 
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 27th. 
Mr. J. Percivall in the Chair . 
Mr. W. PercivalPs Essay on u Soundness," which forms the 
leading article of our present number, was read; but the subject 
appearing so important to every member, and containing such a 
variety of matter, the discussion had scarcely assumed a regular 
and tangible form when the hour of adjournment arrived. We 
shall be enabled to give a connected account of the whole in our 
next number; in the mean time we redeem our promise, by 
inserting the debate on Mr. Palmer’s paper on “ Canker." 
