INDEX. 



621 



Energy, difference of foot-pounds 

 of, between a horse at rest and 



at labour, .... 509 



of man in foot-pounds at 



rest and at labour, . . 511 



of man and of horse at 



labour compared, . . 512, 516 



modes of estimating, . 519 



total carbon in the food 



nearly a measure of total, 498, 527 



from was te of tissue, 529 



Entozoa, Glossary, Parasite, 605 



Epiglottis, Glossary, . 594 



Epidermis, what it is, 6 



Epidermic tissue, . 219 



Epithelium, what it is, 6 



Glossary, 594 



Epithelial tissue, ' . 219 



Eremacausis, what it is, 295, 485 

 Ergot of rye, . .474 



Ethyl, hydrate of oxide of, Glossary, 594 



Evening primrose order of plants, 385 



Excrement, sources of, in the body, 4 



its proportion to the 



food, 6 



of man, ... 271 



of carnivorous animals, 272 



of herbivorous animals, 272 



ofthehorse, . . 272 



of the cow, . . 272 



Excretine, .... 271 



Excretions, Glossary, . . 594 



Excretion of urea, ... 79 



of urine, . . . 255 



Exogenous, Glossary, Dicotyledon- 

 ous, 594 



Explanation of some difficulties, 513 



Faeces, chemical composition of, 271 



Fallopian tubes, Glossary, . 595 



Fang of the tooth, ... 13 



Fat, digestion of, . . 71 



or adipose tissue, . . 220 



amorphous, . . . 270 



combustion of, . . . 523 



forming principles, . . 530 



Favus, Glossary, Parasite, . 602 



Feculoid, 327 



Fennel, 389 



Fern order of plants, . . 477 



Fern root, .... 477 



Fescue-grass, creeping-rooted, . 440 



fine-leaved,. . 440 



giant, ... 437 



hard, ... 435 



meadow, . . 439 



sheep's, . . 438 



spiked, . . 438 



tall, ... 436 



various -leaved, . 437 



Fibre, muscular, . . . 232 



Fibrine, 306 



of muscle, . . . 306 



Fibrine, Glossary, , . . 595 

 Fibro-cartilage, . . . 229 

 Fibrous tissue, .... 227 

 Fick and Wislicenus, footnote, 

 their conclusion on the theory 

 of energy erroneous, . 487, 519 



Field eryngo, 



Filly, .... 



Fioriu grass, 



Fig marigold order of plants. 



389 

 546 

 449 

 386 

 415 



Fine-leaved fescue-grass, . . 440 

 Flax order of plants, . . 362 

 Flea, Glossary, Parasite, . . 604 

 Flesh-formers, Glossary, . . 595 



in the food of the 



horse, .... 507, 513 

 Floating meadow-grass, . . 441 



sweet grass, . . 449 



Flourens's experiments on the ru- 

 mination in the sheep, . . 149 

 Fluids in the body, ... 212 

 Fluorine as food, . . . 541 

 fluoride of calcium, Glos- 

 sary, 595 



Flummery, .... 466 

 Foal, food of the, . . 49, 536, 543 

 Foetus, Glossary, ... 595 

 Follicular glands, ... 22 



Food, as a proposed article of, its 

 requirements, . . . 547 



must be of the same absolute 



quantity as the excretions when 



the animal is stationary in weight, 486 



in, three points are essential, 530 



of the animals of a farm, the 



chemistry of, . . . 285 

 total carbon in, nearly a mea- 

 sure of total energy, . . 498 



the changes it undergoes in 



its long tract through the body, 



7, 197-207 



chemical composition of 



some principal articles of, . 580 



of chickens, . . . 579 



choice of, for the horse, . 507 



of ducks, . . . 578 



effect of, on cow's milk, . 557 



on what the fitness of, de- 

 pends, . 483 



of the foal, . . 543 



of fowls, . 578 



of foxhounds, . . 571 



578 

 577 

 194 

 512 

 .512 



319 

 31 



578 

 579 



of pigeons, 



.... prehension of, by animals, 

 .... plastic, of horse, 



of ox, 



.... sugar in several important 

 articles of, 

 .... how swallowed, 

 .... of turkeys, 

 .... of turkey poults, 



