716 
INDEX. 
Law, the, concerning horses, racing, and gambling, 464 
Lecture, introductory, Professor Sewell’s, for the session 1846-7, 68 
• editorial remarks on, 108 
on the diseases (hygiene) of cattle, at the Farmer’s Club, 640 
discussion consequent on, 657 
Leech, T. M., his case of inversion of the bladder in a mare, 425 
Lesions, some obscure, unmasked, 632 
Lithotomy, the operation of, in a gelding, 549 
Liver, disease of, causing lameness in the fore leg, 73 
M. 
Matthews v. Parker, 289 
Mayer, T., senior, on the medical virtues and poisonous properties of foetid 
and white hellebore, 5 
on the improper application of the term pleuro-pneumonia 
to the prevailing epidemic, 133 
his account of the variola, or small-pox in sheep, 623 
Mayhew, Edw., his observations on curb, 15 
his account of the effects of ether on a kitten, 134 ; on his 
own person, 136 ; and remarks on such experiments, 140 
his rumours of strange proceedings at the Royal Veterinary 
College, 143 
his successful attempt to inject fluids into the stomach of a 
horse through the nostrils, 
his introduction of the crotchet into canine obstetricy, 80 
his account of the effects of the inhalation of the fumes of 
ether on dogs and cats, and by inference on the horse, with the probable 
utility of such in veterinary medicine, 86 
editorial remarks on the above, 107 
Medical Registration Bill, editorial observations on, 167 
Medicine, effects of, on horses, 21 
Megrims and gutta serena in a horse, case of, 462 
Melanosis in a mare, 372 
Members of the R.C.V.S., names of candidates admitted in April, 355 
Memorial of the President and Council to the Home Secretary, editorial re- 
marks on, 53 
the reply to, of the Home Secretary, 54 
editorial remarks on, 54- 
Mercury, on the action of, 341 
Metacarpal bone, fracture of, 431 
Military veterinary politics — the petition of Geo. Johnston, late Veterinary 
Surgeon to the 6th Dragoon Guards, 487 
comments on the above from “ The Times,” 492 
Modesty, American, 364 
Mortality, alarming, from glanders, 357 
Morton, Earl, his communication of a curious fact in breeding to the Royal 
Societj*, 130 
M’ Shane v. Corrigan, 533 
Myoitis, on, 455, 495 
N. 
Names of members present at the General Meeting, 420 
of persons who received their diplomas, April, 1847, 355 
May, 356 
August, 600 
Natural history and origin of dogs, 516, 561 
