706 INDEX. 
Council of the R.C.V.S., proceedings of, sitting December 29, 1847, 116 
February 9th, 1848, 177 
— March 8th, 233 
March 29th, 290 
April 19th, 292 
May 23, 351 
June 28, 474 
August 25th, 533 
adjourned specialmeet- 
ing, 28th August, 594 
at the quarterly meeting, 6th 
October, 655 
result of election of six new members of, 353 
their memorial in reply to unfounded attacks upon the charter of 
the profession, 237 
Cow, esophagotomy on, 569 
rupture of the diaphragm in a, 571 
unnatural presentation in, 316 
Cows, milch, castration of, 392 
Cow, case of retention of the foetus in, 494 
Cox, W., his cases of prolapsus of the bladder and purpura hemorrhagica, 613 
his account of diarrhoea among cattle, 377 
on the danger of giving drenches, 510 
Creasote, effectual in curing two cases of pseudo- glanders, 17 
Crest of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, review of, 230 
Cruelty to animals, prevention of, 452 
Cuming, W., his north country prescription, 674 
Curious case of incurable disease and lameness from hydatids, 674 
Cut straw litter, 53 
Dawson, E. B., his novel method of castration, 607 
Defects in veterinary education, 85, 149 
Delafond and Gruby, on the verminous alterations in the blood of the dog, 67 
Delafond, O., his account of sheep-pox viewed as a measure of sanitary 
police, 385, 464, 522, 568 _ 
Deodorization and disinfection by Sir H. Burnett’s disinfecting fluid — the 
solution of chloride of zinc, 453 
Diaphragm, rupture of, with the introduction of part of the reticulum into 
the thorax, in a cow, 571 
Diarrhoea among cattle, 377 
Diplomas, gentlemen who have obtained them during 1848, 353 
Diseases arising from improper food, 224 
in horses, changes in the nature and character of, 541 
Disinfectants and the rival professors, 582 
Documents, editorial remarks in commendation of those published by the 
Veterinary Council, 286 
Dogs, three cases of suspected poisoning in, 22 
wild, chace of, 234 
Dog, blood of, verminous alterations in, 67 
Draper, H. his cases of quittor, ruptured vein, and parturient apoplexy, 188 
his letters on the subject of pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, 205 
Drenching, cases of death from, 378 
Drenches, danger of giving, 510 
Dumb creation, a word to, 354 
Duncan John, his “ Travels in Western Africa” reviewed, 44 
