INDEX. 
829 
Delafond, Professor, on inoculation with the matter of typhus, 545 
Dentition, the process of, in cattle, 647 — the diseases attending it, 648 
Des Cartes, his opinion of brutes, 656 
Diabetes, simple, in the horse, 77 — excellent account of the symptoms of, 
78 — bronchitic or febrile, 79 
Diaphragm, rupture of the, 159 — spasm of, 680 
Dick, Professor, banquet to, 65 — intended presentation of plate to, 127 — the 
concluding part of his opening lecture, 128 — on the diploma of his school, 
169 — consultations, 297, 298 — on tumours on the neck of cattle, 382 — 
his speeches at the presentation of plate to him, 401, 403, 405 — sketch of 
his veterinary career, 403 — on deafness in the horse, 458 — on paralysis of 
the pelvic viscera, 459 — on suspected glanders, 459 — on chronic discharge 
from the nostril, 538 — at the presentation of plate to Mr. Youatt, 61 1 
Dick, Mr., sen., his speech at the presentation of plate to his son, 603 
Dickens, Mr., at the presentation of plate to Mr. Youatt, 616 
Digestibility, the, of different kinds of food, 523 
Digestion, experiments on, by Professor Tiedemann and Gmelin, 173, 219, 
273, 362, 435, 518 — in what it consists, 521 — sketch of, in the ruminant, 
435 — a vital operation, 523 — the necessary adjuvants, 523 — the connexion 
of the blood with it, 524 — the influence of the nervous system on it, 524 
Diplomas, a list of the students who have obtained them in the course of the 
year, 76, 144, 399, 428, 500, 580 
Disease, coeval with the domestication of the horse, 1 — the distribution of, 
according to the age of the animal, 3 — according to the month of the year, 
4 — the comparative fatality of different diseases, 4 — internal, the treatment 
of, 5 — of cattle, its peculiar character, 573 
Dislocation of the spine in a horse, 53 — the patella, curious, 132 
Dogs, the occasional usefulness of as guards, 26 — their natural depravity of 
appetite, 30 — the folly of petting them, 30 — description of the orbit of 
the eye in, 502 
Drenching horses, dangerous, 229, 233, 234, 235, 327, 526 — no danger 
about it, 106, 107, 168, 241 — the best method of, 167 
Dromedary, the size of the blood-discs in, 787 
Duck, the olfactory organs in, 150 
Dupuy, M., his record of a case of one kidney, 70 
Durham bull and Galloway cow, the cross between, 344 
Eagle, the peculiar strength and correctness of his sight, 657 
Ear, ossification of the cartilage of it, 465 
Earth, the probable stages of its formation, 23, 24 
Edinburgh school, the diploma of its students, 169 
Elementary forms, the, simple yet different, 23 
Elephant, instance of the sagacity of one, 660 — the size of the blood-discs 
in, 7 87 
Ellis, Mr., his singular case of lusus naturae, 709 
Emir Beschir, the stud of, 212 
England, its men and its talent, 81 
English Agricultural Society, review of the Journal of, 338 
Enteritis, a case of, accompanied by scirrhous tumour, 474 
Entozoa,the, of the domesticated animals, 735 
Epidemic among cattle in 1839, account of one, 639, 674 
Epidemic pneumonia at Naples, an account of it, 176 
Epilepsy, following necrosis of the occiput, 590 
Escharotic, a new one, 488 
Ethmoid bone, description of it in the horse, 152 — ox, 152 — sheep, 152 — 
swine, 152 — cat, 152 
