INDEX. 
729 
J. 
Johnston, — , obituary of, 668 
Jones, E. J. B., records a case of division of the sacro-ischiatic ligament of 
a cow, 20 
Jutte, Dr., on the digestibility of the iodide of starch, 651 
K. 
Kent, J., communicates the history of two horses, supposed to have 
died from the administration of cold water while under the in- 
fluence of purgative medicine, 629 
his comments on Greenland v. Hoskins, 516 
Kidney, softening and rupture of the left, with calcareous deposit in the 
right, 181 
Bright’s disease of, in the horse, 217 
Knowledge, necessity of, at the present day, 677 
“Knees, broken,” remedy for, 698 
L. 
Lactic acid, the normal acid of the stomach, 158 
Lameness, hip-joint, 140, 259 
Larvse, case of, in the brain of a foal, 82 
Laycock, C., records a case of difficult parturition in a heifer, 505 
Lead, antidote to compounds of, 158 
detection of, 304 
several cows poisoned by sugar of, 157 
Leaders. Annual address of the editors, 51 
Formation of a Veterinary Protection Society, 55 
Cavalry College, 57 
The cattle plague, 413 
Prospects of the profession, 107 
Inoculation for pleuro-pneumonia, 110 
The reports of the lloyal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 113 
Our literature, 177 
Contagious typhus in cattle, 224 
The apprehended murrain, 287 
The anniversary meeting of the profession, 290 
The relations between food and disease, 346 
The late annual meeting of the profession, 348 
Election of James Turner, Esq., as president, 351 
Proceedings in Parliament in reference to the diseases of cattle, 
478 
The annual meeting of the Boyal Agricultural Society, 537 
The cattle murrain of Ireland, and the Government proceedings 
with reference to rinderpest, 596 
Opening of the scholastic session 1857-8, at the Boyal Veteri- 
nary College, 658 
Bemoval of the restrictions connected with the cattle pest, 715 
The American Veterinary Association, 717 
Lectures, value of, 669 
Leeches, new method of applying, 89 
Legislation burlesqued, 606 
Lewis, G., records a case of accidental poisoning of a dog with nux vomica, 
147 
an operation for ventral hernia, 201 
