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chyle had been even properly formed, it would, in its course 
through the lacteal vessels and their glands, before reaching 
the receptaculum chyli, have been either arrested in its 
course, deteriorated in its quality, or its perfect elaboration 
interfered with, and the blood thereby deprived of its due 
supply of renovating material. 'I'his, however, could not 
have been the case; at any rate, not to an extent materially 
to interfere with assimilation. 
The symptoms observed by Mr. Shaw were certainly those 
diagnostic of abdominal pain, and which 1 can understand, 
now that I have seen the interior of the intestines, mav 
have been caused by temporary impactment of ingesta in the 
course of the tube; for its calibre in some parts was greatly 
constricted, arising from the presence of the abnormal growths 
before alluded to. The inordinate appetite ol the horse, and 
his propensity to eat his bedding, and even his own faeces, 
should nothing else be within his reach, are as difficult to 
account for as his remaining in good condition while labouring 
under such extensive disease as that of which I have at¬ 
tempted a description. 
TREATMENT OF COLIC, &c. 
By Thomas Greaves, M.R.C.V.S., Manchester. 
I FEEL an irresistible inclination impelling me to make a 
few remarks upon the above very interesting and deeply im¬ 
portant subject; one which has been so ably handled by 
Professor Brown in the pages of the Vetennarian, and by 
Mr. Joseph Gamgee, senr., in the September number of the 
Edinbu-rgh Veterinary Review^ and now again in this montlds 
Revieiv, in reply to Argusin last month’s Veterinarian. 
It is a subject I have always taken a lively interest in, and 
on it an essay was read b}^ me before the members of the 
Veterinary Medical Association of London, Jan. 26th, 1841. 
I may also add, that for more than twenty-eight years I have 
daily bestowed much attention to these kind of cases, and 
only last week I had one of more than ordinary interest 
under treatment; in fact, it was this case that finally decided 
me to make the following comments. 
The case adverted to was a cart-horse, five years old. 'lie 
was brought to my infirmary on Sunday morning, very weak, 
and said to have been in pain the whole of the preceding 
