760 
INDKX. 
Baker, Mr. G on idiopatliic tetanus, 2-41—on (lesceot of the omentum, 391 
—his history of the horse and his v arious breeds, 418, 588, 720—appointed 
on the standing committee of veterinary surgeons, 682 
Baldwin, Mr., appointed on the standing committee of veterinary surgeons, 
682 
Ballingall, Sir G., at the Edinburgh veterinary dinner, 365 
Barb, account of the, 590 
Barclay, Dr. on the immortality of brutes, 515, 517 
Barham, Dr., on glanders in the human being, 446 
Barker, Mr. T. R., on the epidemic among cattle, 469 
Barriere, IM., on croup in young cattle, 736 
Behrens, Mr., his speeches on the meeting of the veterinary deputation 484,489 
Bile, experiments on the function of it, 199—the opinion of various physio¬ 
logists on its function, 199 
Black-faced heath breed of sheep, account of them, 758 
Black-water, a case of, 128—post-mortem appearance of, 129—causes of, 132 
—the question of bleeding in, 132 
Blain in cows, excellent remarks on, 462—communicated to a dog, 713 
blood, the essential morbid alterations which take place in it, 286—maladies 
of tlie, attributable to the abundance of blood, 287—ditto to a diminution 
or impoverishment of it, 289—to an excess of serum in the blood, 289— 
to alteration and diiniimtion of the globules, 527—to the separation of the 
elements of the ghdvules, 529—to alteration of the fluid itself, 531 
Blavetie, M., on worms in poultry, 649—on vaginal polypus in the cow, 715 
—on rupture of the diaphragm from cough, 715 
Blindness too certainly hereditary, 722 
Blistering, defence of the old method of tying to the rack after it, 710—used 
in case of open joint, 714 
Blundeville, account of him, 305 
Boerbaave, his opinion of the functions of the bile, 199 
Bombay aloes, their nature and use, 148 
Bones, the power of nature in producing reunion of fractured, 461 
Bonnet on the immortality of brutes, 515 
Eonnetrie’s Veterinary Works, 306 
Botany, the chair of at Alfort, 311 
Bouley on the rheumatism of pleurisy, 632—his review of Renault on Gan¬ 
grene, 657 
Brabv, Mr. E., appointed on the standing committee of veterinary surgeons, 
682 
Brain, its con;paiative weight with the body in man and other animals, 293 
—•isuall' has attained its full size when the animal is 7 or 8 years old, 293 
—the aver;..ge weight of, 293—weight of that of the chimpanzee, 294— 
the average weight of that of the ox, 294—of the seal, 294—the size of it 
nothing to do with the intellect, 294—the best comparison is with its own 
nerves, 295—tiie development of the centra! hemispheres a sure test, 296 
—general remarks on that of the chimpanzee, 296—of the orang-utan, 
296—tiger, 296—kangaroo, 296—wombat, 296—birds, 296—opossum, 
297 
Breeding, important observations on, 720—the too early and too late periods 
for, 723—the proper time for, 723 
Breschet, M., his excellent memoir on glanders, 378 
Brodie, Sir B., his opinion of the functions of the bile, 200—on the useful¬ 
ness and pleasure of the association of medical men, 275—his admirable 
sketch of the intellectual capacity of Professor Coleman, 276 
Broken-wind complicated with bronchitis, 403—not attended with barren¬ 
ness, 470 , 535 
