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INDEX. 
Anticor, its prevalence among French horses, 513 
Antelope, singular notions respecting the, 84 
Anus, a case of imperforate in a calf, 173 . 
Apoplexy in sheep, 162, 165 
Apperlev, Mr., his comparison between the French and English horses, 510 
Appetite depraved in sheep, 72/ 
Aphthae in the mouths of cattle, treatment of, 574 
Armadillo, the size of the blood-discs in, 788 
Arteries, the red colour of the lining membrane of, 137 
Astronomy, its early history, 92 
Auscultation and percussion, the importance of in chest affections, 192 — 
useful in the examination of early pregnancy, 436 
Back-raking not so dangerous as imagined by some, 378 — the manner of 
performing it, 379 — the extent to which abdominal diseases may be dis- 
covered by it, 381 
Baddelev, Mr. W.W., his case of metastasis of inflammation, 800 
Baker, Mr. G., his advocacy of The Veterinarian, 713 — on the use of the 
stethescope in early pregnancy, 715 — on bleeding in retarded parturition, 
716 — on Mr. Turner’s work on the blood, 717 
Ballingall, Sir Geo., his speech at the presentation of plate to Professor 
Dick, 404 
Barbillons, the treatment of, 574 
Barbie, its olfactory organs, 151 
Barthe, demonstrator at the English Veterinary College, 767 
Beagle, the olfactory nerves of it, 148 
Beaver, singular notions respecting it, 83 
Belladonna successfully used in tetanus, 326 — ditto in colic, 487 
Bile, the chemical principles of, 584 
Birnana, description of the orbit of the eye in the, 502 
Birds, the olfactory nerves of, 148, 282 — ditto of birds of prey, 149, 282 — 
ditto of graminivorous birds, 150, 282 
Black-water, valuable cases of, 37 
Blain in cattle, observations on, 650 — various poisonous plants the cause 
of, 671 
Bleeding, why so often adopted for the horse, 5 — the great importance of, 5 
— experiments on slight and copious, 192 — the question of in the diseases 
of cattle, 571 
Blindness, rare among the French horses, 515 
Blisters, the great use of, 6, 49 — how far a veterinary surgeon is amenable 
for blemishes from, 481 
Blood-discs, account of them in various animals, 48, 786 — the state of the 
blood in typhoid fever, 49 — experiments of the loss of in amputations, 192 
Bones, the character of abscesses of, 154 
Boulev, M., on the suppression of suppuration, 254 
Bovista gigantum, the rapid organization of it, 21 
Bowels, the age at which disease of them most prevalent, 3 — the months in 
which most prevalent, 4 
Brain, the age at which disease of it is most prevalent, 3 — the months in 
which most prevalent, 4 — singular effect of compression of, 258 — abscess 
of the, 319 
Breeding, the qualities of the male parent predominant in the offspring, 341 
— the grand objects of, 341 — the importance of settled principles respect- 
ing, 343 — the question as to the smallness of the female in, 344 — the im- 
portance of health and strength in the male, 345 — the difference in breed- 
ing for grazing, or for stock, 345 
