INDEX. 
Mesentery, rupture of, and strangulation of intestine, 320 
Milk, 222 
Miscellanea : a man who can make himself taller at will, 416 
a word to the dumb creation, 354 
a lion’s meal, 354 
an encounter with baboons near the Kwees river, 355 
taking to business nat’ral, 356 
restive horses, 296 
chloroform administered to a pig, 233 
the rhinoceros, 234 
wild dog chace, 234 
putting a young horse on the bit, 236 
Chiffhey bits and bridle reins, 236 
live stock in the United Kingdom, 175 
how to manage shy horses, 176 
good riding, 176 
rural farriery, 176 
moral character of the monkey, 51 
the domestic fowl, 51 
cut straw litter, 52 
the wolves in Tyrone, 53 
editors, 54 
the late Dr. Hope, 55 
foreign cattle, 55 
extraordinary fact, 56 
medal to the Duke of Richmond, 56 
Monkey, moral character of, 5 1 
Moorcroft, his Travels reviewed, 273, 326 
Morton, W. J. T*, review of his “ Manual of Pharmacy for the Veterinary 
Student,” 152 
Motion, the, of the juices in an animal body, 404 
Mule, conception of, 87 
Murrain, the, among cattle, 112 
Nasal secretion, examination of, in glanders, 476 
Nervous matter, regeneration of, 254 
Neurotomy, success of, 57 
insuccess of, 58 
to command success in three considerations requisite, 58 
election of the subject for, 60 
the incurably lame horse the especial subject for, 61 
— - the horse lame from laminitis unfit for, 62 
in ossification of the cartilages, 63 
for ringbone, 63 
for contracted hoofs, 64 
has other objects besides the cure of lameness, 66 
traumatic tetanus arrested by, 66 
T. H. Mayer’s letter to W. Percivall on the discovery of, 69 
steps for the operation, 177 
course of the nerves in regard to, 178-9 
the operation for, 180 
the high operation for, 183 
improvements in, 250 
subcutaneous, 251 
Mr. Ernes’ new instrument for, 251 
Mr. Gowing’s new instrument for, 252 
union of the nerves divided in, 253 
