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YORKSHIRE VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
The usual quarterly meeting was held at the Queen's Hotel, 
Leeds, on Wednesday, the 31st July, the President, Mr. John 
Cuthbert, in th6 chair. The following members were present:— 
viz. Messrs. Greaves, Naylor, James Preeman, Nicholson, Ed- 
mundson, Anderton, Patterson, Carter, Eallding, Walker, Pratt, 
Eearnley, Eerguson, and the Secretary. 
Mr. Westerman was present as a visitor. 
Apologies for non-attendance were received from Messrs. 
McTaggart, Freeman, Joseph and John Bale. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
Mr. Fearnley read a paper “ On the Use of Chloroform with 
Morphia in Bowel Diseases," which elicited a very spirited and 
instructive discussion, in which most of the members took 
part. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen, — I have great pleasure in 
bringing before you this essay on tf The Use of Chloroform with 
Morphia in Bowel Diseases." For three or four years I have 
been in the habit of using morphia subcutaneously, and chloro¬ 
form by the mouth or by inhalation, as valuable adjuncts to our 
ordinary remedies, with great success. 
I am sure you will all agree with me when I say that our 
patients die from shock or from nervous exhaustion in nearly all 
fatal bowel diseases, and the rapidity with which they die often 
astonishes us. 
Excepting spasmodic colic, we cannot regard these powerful 
agents as remedies per se, but they do so nurse the system until 
our other remedies have time to act, or nature to regain her 
healthy equilibrium, that, properly applied in good time, they 
render the chances of our patient dying (excepting through 
organic lesion) exceedingly remote. 
Considering long essays a nuisance and uncalled for, and 
further bearing in mind that you are all experienced in ordinary 
remedies, I will go on to state that after we have diagnosed the 
nature of the particular form of the disease we are called upon to 
treat, if there is distressing pain after giving suitable medicine, 
we should at once proceed to give our patient that which he 
would receive were he undergoing the same amount of pain by a 
surgical operation. Before going further let us suppose that we 
were about to perform an operation causing so much pain as to 
risk losing our patient from collapse within a few hours. Should 
we or should we not give something to obviate this P Again, 
who doubts that most of the bowel diseases of horses which prove 
