PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL. 
542 
Touching the susceptibility of the stomach of the horse to 
emetic action, or to the operation on it of medicines called 
emetics , from the known effect they have on the stomachs of 
man, dog, &c., though the former is insensible to the working 
of the majority of such agents, it is not insensible to all of them. 
It has been shown that even tartar emetic, introduced into the 
circulation, has some such effect; and we know T , of our own 
experience, that white hellebore often—not invariably, per¬ 
haps,—produces the same effect. For we regard the general 
state of convulsion—rigidity—into which the muscles of the 
body and neck are thrown in such cases, as the preparative 
or incipient to the act of vomiting, into which such spas¬ 
modic muscular contraction or rigidity would develop itself 
were the act not rendered abortive by the want of the 
presence of the necessary condition to it, viz., pyloric obstruc¬ 
ts. And therefore, our answer to the question, “ Why the 
horse rarely vomits V s must be:—because in his stomach— 
which is manifestly much less susceptible than the stomachs 
of man and most other animals—pyloric obstruction, of 
sufficient amount, or resisting force, to overcome the natural 
obstacles to an act he is so unfitted for, rarely exists. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Special Meeting of Council, Wednesday , July 28th, 1852. 
Present—The President; Messrs. Braby, Cherry, A. Cherry, Dickens» 
Henderson, Stockly, Wilkinson, Withers ; Professors Simonds and 
Morton, and the Secretary. 
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The President in the Chair. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting having been read and signed, and some 
correspondence read, to which the Secretary was directed to make the necessary 
replies, the election of a Vice-President was proceeded with. 
Mr. Dickens proposed Mr. Wells, of Norwich, as a fit person to fill the vacant 
office of Vice-President. 
Professor Simonds , in seconding the nomination, bore testimony to the 
qualifications of Mr. Wells, who (he said) deservedly ranked high in his pro¬ 
fession, and could at all times give a sound opinion upon any matter connected 
with the interests of the profession. 
The Council then proceeded to ballot, and— 
The Chairman declared Mr. Wells to be unanimously elected, and said they 
could not have selected a better man. 
