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knot; the mesentery was torn considerably, and the adjacent parts 
completely gangrened . The horse was sound in other respects, 
and had done only a moderate portion of work the day before, and 
at seven o’clock on Saturday evening had eaten and drank as 
usual. 
A second singular case occurred last week in a horse w hich 
worked in one of our one-horse public carriages. He was driven 
rather sharply from Bristol to the Hot-wells (about one mile), to 
be in time for the arrival of one of the steam packets, and had not 
been on the stand above five minutes, when he suddenly and 
violently jumped up and fell down, and before he could be loosed 
from the carriage he was dead. I attended the dissection the 
same evening, and found him sound in every respect except the 
liver. The vena portae was ruptured, and the abdomen de¬ 
luged with blood. The stomach was completely crammed with 
undigested food. 
THE VETERINARIAN , JULY 1 , 1831 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, we quid veri non audeat.-—C icero. 
On the 16 th ultimo an open dinner of the Veterinary Club, 
a dinner to w r hich the members had more than the usual privi¬ 
lege of inviting friends, took place. We wfill endeavour to give 
some account of that club, and, as nearly as we can recollect, in 
the language of the chairman of the day. 
There has for some time existed in the metropolis a little knot 
of practitioners well known to each other, occasionally thrown 
together in the way of their profession, or for the purpose of 
scientific discussion, or perchance convivial enjoyment, and thus 
taught mutual esteem. They were gradually brought closer 
together, and at length formed themselves into a friendly club. 
No veterinary political purpose did or could unite them; for 
they differed far too widely in their views of veterinary affairs. 
There were among them some straightforward honest radical 
reformers, what perhaps could not be affirmed of radical reformers 
generally ;—there were the advocates of more moderate reform, 
and not because they w ere compelled to bend to the spirit of the 
times, and, therefore, supported that which they could not resist. 
