INDEX. 
A 
Abomasum, rupture of, in a cow, 24 
Abscess near the acetabulum, case of, 434 
Abscesses supervening influenza, case of, 328 
Aearus, a new ore in the horse, 283 
Acid, hydrocyanic, successful use of, in tetanus, 135 
uric, decomposition of, in the organism, 156 
lactic, the normal acid of the stomach, 158 
vegetable, action on calomel, 168 
sulphuric, obtained from gypsum, 445 
Aconite, poisonous action of, 395 
“Acteon” on the treatment of fistula, 442 
Address, introductory, to Session 1857-8, 609, 669 
Advice to masters and mistresses, 486 
Age of animals, 239 
Aged horses, American means of judging, 239 
Agricultural Society of England, reports respecting the apprehended 
murrain, 271 
annual meeting of, 537 
Agriculture in China, 362 
Alcohol, action of, on the organism, 67 4 
Alkaloids, vegetable, on the, 365 
Allen, R., obituary of, 60 
Allotrophy, effects of, on bodies, 619 
Aloine, on, by T. B. Groves, 43 
Aluminium, uses of, 88 
Ammonium, iodide of, 333, 393 
Amylene, on, as an anaesthetic, 307, 645 
experiments on, in Erance, 342, 645 
Anaesthetic agents, on, 305 
Anus, case of prolapsus of the, 71 
Armatage, G., on purgatives and clysters, 438 
Army appointments, 180, 304, 548, 666, 722 
Arrow poison of the Indians, 406 
Arsenic and antimony, mode of testing for, 454 
Atmosphere, the properties of the, 223 
Atrophine, its physiological action upon the retina, 102 
Australia, state of veterinary medicine in, 315 
B. 
Baker, Samuel, obituary of, 722 
Barton, C. E., records a case of cerebral congestion in a horse, 63 
Bauwens on the action of vegetable acids on calomel, 168 
Beet -root, new manufactures from, 88 
