670 
INDEX. 
Perforans tendon, rupture of it at the carpian arch, 218 
Peripneumony in cattle, gangrenous, 352 
Perspiration, on animal, 3/8 
Pituitary membrane, anatomy of it in the horse, 217 
Pleurisy, the treatment of, 241 
-the treatment of in its after stages, 1/9 
-the importance of diuretics in, 241 
-the proper tonics after paracentesis, 179, 242 
Pneumogastric nerve in cattle, the anatomy of it, 301, 553 
Poland, the breeding of horses in, 184 
Pole-cat, rabies in the, 284 
Poll-evil, valuable remarks on, 219 
Polypus, the laws of warranty respecting it on the continent, 483 
■ ' ■ • in the rectum, a case of, 612 
Pottie, Mr., his case of poisoning with white lead, 586 
- remarks on his defence of the seton, 177 
Poultry, the post-mortem appearance of rabies in, 69 
Pregnancy, the law of warranty respecting it on the continent, 484 
Pritchard, Mr., on hock lameness, Rlr. W. C. Spooner’s reply to, 33 
Prussia, the Stud Book of, 226 
Puerperal fever, three fatal cases of, 298 
-JVIr. Friend’s excellent remarks on, 399, 633 
-a disease of the spinal columns, 399 
--- how far connected with plethora, 401 
-cattle all times exposed to it, 400 
. - - the employment of stimulants in the treatment of, 403 
- a cow with it, destroyed by nitre, 124 
Purgatives, the question of, in enteritis, 154 
Pus, danger of the re-absorption of, 629, 640 
•-the means of recognizing it, 473 
Rabbit, the post-mortem appearances of rabies in, 69 
Rabies, description of in the human being, 230 
- identity of in man and the brute, 231 
-the difference a natural one, 232 
-an affection of the nervous system, 236 
-supposed distinction between it and hydrophobia, 620 
-evidence before the House of Commons respecting it, 618 
-the cause of in the human being, 278 
-brute, 278, 620 
-never produced by ventilation, heat, thirst, &c., 279 
-the origin of, 282 
-the virus of it resides in the saliva, 283, 290 
-communicated by the horse, 286 
-can be communicated by all animals, 284, 286, 513 
-caution as to giving medicine in, 288 
- the improbability of spontaneous, 333,509 
-the virus of it must be received on an abraded or mucous surface, 333 
-the question of mucous surfaces, 334 
-propagated by inoculation alone, 335, 512 
-— after awhile loses its contagious property, 337 
-different susceptibility to in different animals, 336, 338 
- cause of the apparent immunity, 336 
-the virus of it soon altered after taken from the animal, 337 
-the nature of the virus of, 390 
--supposed not to be of frequent occurrence, 495 
