INDEX. 
750 
K. 
Karkeek, JVIr., his ancient history of the ox, 72 — his lecture on organic 
chemistry, 244 — his account of the principal elementary substances, 244 
—the laws, vital and chemical, 244 — the process of nutrition, 245 — the 
rearing of the animal, 246 — the properties of the different articles of food, 
248 — the different kinds of feeding, 248 — his review of Liebig, 415 — his 
essay on fat and muscle, 598 — the phenomena of nutrition and growth, 
598— the conversion of chyme into chyle, 596 — the absorption of the 
chyle, 599 — the thoracic duct, 599 — the lymphatics, 600 — the processes 
of excretion, 600 — the combination of carbon with oxygen, 600 — tem- 
perature and exercise, 601 — the production of fat, 603 — air and exercise 
the grand secret of growth, 603 — the fattening and milking qualities, 604 
— the better the milking qualities, the more likely to carry fat inside, 605 
— animals with small offal the most disposed to fatten, 608 — the breed- 
ing, rearing, and feeding of animals, 671— the signs and tokens of early 
maturity, 674 — the rearing of cattle, 676 — the scientific mode of feeding 
cattle, 678 
Kelso, Dr., on memory, its influence and importance, 576 
Kennel lameness, account of, 692 
Kent, Mr., on the horse and cattle insurance, 667 
Kicking, the act of in the horse, 63 
Kidneys, acute inflammation of the, 21, 637 
King, Mr., on a worm in the scrotum, 20 
King, Mr. F., jun., his account of the finances of the Royal Veterinary 
College, 177, 450 — his remarks on the treasury of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, 374 
Knackers’ yards, inquiry into ditto, 118 
Korber, Herr, on inflammation of the kidney, 21 
L. 
Lafosse, senior, his discovery of glanders, 701-703 
Lafosse, junior, following his father as to glanders, 704 
Laminitis, the symptoms of, 142 — : the treatment of, 146 
Lancet, address to the pupils in, 643 
Language of sheep, the peculiar, 744 
Landousz, M., on acute glanders following a bite by a horse, 576 
Laryngitis in a gelding, 29, 67 — in nephritis, 170 
Larynx, the special anatomy of, 148 — muscles of the larynx, 347 — these 
contain, externally, the crico-thyroidei and thyro-hyoidei. Internally are 
the crieo-arytenoidei superiores and inferiores — the thyro-arytenoidei ante- 
riores, posteriores, and transverse, with the semper arytenoidei, aryteno- 
epiglottidei and hyo-epiglottideus. Connected with these are the muscles 
opening and closing the rima glottidis. At the close of these is the epi- 
glottic gland — the laryngeal mucous membrane — the ventricles of the la- 
rynx — and the rima glottidis, 354 
Lauder, Mr., his case of poisoning, 23 
Lead, the effect of on horses, 54 
Leaping, the act of, 65 
Lee, Mr., returns thanks for the medical men generally, 288 
Leonard, Mascal, his earliest account of glanders, 702 
Liebig on the connexion between chemistry and physiology, 415 — different 
alimentary bodies, 416 — the blood, 416 — graminivorous and herbivorous 
bodies, 417 — the ultimate elements, 418 
