INDEX. 
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Pulmonary artery, account of the, 14 
-veins, account of the, 61 
Purgatives, theory of their action, 164 
-and laxatives, distinction between, 165 
Purging in pneumonia and pleurisy, different effect of, 666 
Quarters of the horse, description of the, 307 
Quinine, sulphate of, intermittent fever cured by, 472 
Qnittor, the French mode of treating, 47 
Rabbits, the diseases of, 338 
Rabies, French notion of, 155 
- supposed recovery from, 156 
Rabid dog, peculiar symptoms following the bite of, 92 
- animals, the bites of, cauterized with the galvanic pile, 657 
Raven, the singular attachment of one to a dog, 536 
Reason, power of, in brutes, 527 
Reck, the Baron de, on the draconcule in lambs, 521 
Rectus capitis anticus major, partial rupture of, 591 
Red Rover and Moonraker, steeple-chase between, 285 
- Broomfield, steeple-chase between, 286 
— water, on the treatment of, 142 
Redness of inflammation, the, explained, 392 
Renault, M., his treatment of quittor, 47 
-opinion and treatment of colic, 48 
Respiration, the mechanism of, 618 
- auxiliary muscles concerned in, 618 
- how far affected by atmospheric pressure, 619 
Responsibility of veterinary surgeons, a case relating to the, 639 
Revenge of a horse, a singular anecdote of, 560 
Review of Clater’s Cattle Doctor, 468 
-Nimrod on the Condition of Hunters, 537, 687, 644 
- PercivalFs Anatomy of the Horse, 587 
- Turner on the Foot, 455 
- Voice of Humanity, 466 
Rhenitis, acute, in the horse, 349 
-chronic, in the horse, 350 
-in cattle, 353 
Rhubarb, medicinal effects of, 168 
Ribs, anatomy of the, 542 
- number of the, 543 
- the rotatory motion of enlarging the thorax, 546 
Rigot, M., on the spontaneous rupture of the muscles, 590 
Rim<e glottidis, membranes attached to, in different animals, 432 
Riss, M., his cases of amaurosis following other diseases, 169 
-aneurism, 43 
Roads, the ill effects of driving the Highland cattle over, 57 
Robinson, the jockey, spares the whip as much as possible, 658 
-his peculiar judgment in the race between Matilda 
and Mameluke, 659 
Rochelle salts, medicinal effects of, 168 
Rotted lambs, a curious trial respecting the sale of some, 299 
Round chest, advantages and disadvantages of, 547 
Roup, the, in poultry, 339 
Rumen, the mode in which food is received into it, 160 
Rupture of the colon, symptoms of, 237 
-diaphragm, usually fatal, 620 . 
*-may be chronic, 621 
