INDEX. 577 



Pain, how communicated, 292; colic, mistaken, 301. 



Pancreas, its function, 146. 



Pampered horses liable to gripes, 2G8. See Fat. 



Pasterns, of the upright and short, 45 ; sloping, 43. 



Patents for shoes not tenable, 498-9 ; specifications, 492. 502-5. 



Pearson (Dr.) rebukes the professor, 447. 



Pegged foot, how detected, 556. 



Perspiration, the sensible, and the insensible, necessary to health, 

 73 ; one of the means of cure, 77- 245 ; experiment on, 79. 



Phenomena, the trotting mare, her powers, 38. 



Physic, how turned aside from its purpose, 81 ; not always a re- 

 medy, 84. 135; ill-adapted to its purposes, 131. 393; when 

 necessary, 177- 347. 361. See Alterative Purgatives. 



Pinckard's cases of hydrophobia, 436. 



Pledgets for fistula, 340. 



Pleura, physiology of the, 100 ; its doubling, or mediastinum, ever 

 disordered, 218. 



Pleurisy, an uncertain disease, 218. 



Poisonous vapours, effects of, 120 ; oil a good preventive, ib. ; slow, 

 how operating, 125. 131. 134. 



Poll-evil, its seat exhibited, 69 ; a disease of the system, 305 ; 

 causes, 318 ; symptoms and cure, 320; second method, 322. 



Pommice foot, the effect of age and bad form, 44. 



Poultice, efficacy of, 225. 470 ; mode of applying, 226. 356 ; 

 drawing, 316. 324; of bread, 340; of turnips, 397. 



Pressure (frog), Mr. Coleman's contrivances to obtain, 502 ; the 

 right degree of, 505. 



Progression, principles of, 30. 34. 52 59. 66. 555. 



Pulmonary arteries, what, 111. 119. 122; affections, 222. 



Pulse, theory of the, 123 ; practice of feeling, 142. 224. 254 ; how 

 accelerated, 127- 198; how occasioned, 116; tells when to 

 bleed, 177. 215; and to rowel, 218; low and slow, 193. 

 260. 281. 386; variable, denotes relapse, 279. 422; quick and 

 sharp, 291 . 293 ; observations on the, as a barometer, 197 ; re- 

 gister of, in health, 1 80. 



Purchasers of horses, precautions to be observed by, 542. 



Purgatives, the most obvious curative, 84. 282 ; an over dose, its 

 effects, 136 ; dangerous, 186. 199. 246. 255. 260. 267 i neces- 

 sary, 184. 211. 



Purging ball, 185. 244-5. 289. 381. 395. 414. 434 ; clyster, 185. 



Putrid fever — cause, symptoms, and remedies, 202-4. 



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Quittor, how caused, original) v, 339 ; general treatment of, 322. 

 340. 459. 



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Rabid animals, manner of, 430. 433. 



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