978 INDEX. 
Skelton, R, his obituary, 282 
Slaughter-houses, abolition of, 154 
house question, the, 556 
Sleeping to death, 741 
Smallpox of sheep, 26, 480, 624, 740, 822 
Smithfield Club Cattle Show, live weights of the cattle and sheep, 86 
Snake-bite, carbolic acid in, 112 
Soda, carbonate of, adulteration of, 323 
Some bread-stuffs, composition of, 845 
Sore throat, with impaction of alimentary matters, 239 
Sp. ammon. aromaticus, 245 
Splenic apoplexy in milch cows, 166 
Spontaneous movements in plants, 831 
Spooner, Professor, his obituary,. 89 
W. C., his letter to the Sporting Times, 216 
Starch, iodide of, 743 
Stirk, disease of the generative and urinary organs of a, 97 
Stomach of a horse, metallic substances in the, 484 
Stricture of duodenum in a cow, 474 
os and cervix uteri, incision in, 715 
Strychnia, tests for, 485 
Strychnine, chloral and, 324 
Substances, mineral, digestion of, 8 
Substitution of salts composing the bones, 188 
Sugar, influence of, on magnesia, 185 
new test for, 189 
Sulphur, new source of, 484 
Sulphurous acid as a disinfectant, 191 
Supplies of opium and scammony, 497 
our food, 28 
Supposed poisoning of pigs by convolvulus, 727, 819 
Suppression of foot-and-mouth disease, Australian measures for the, 622 
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Taenia in a new-born infant, 74] 
Tannin, preparation of, 245 
Test for albumen in urine, 324 
sugar, new, 189 
Tests for strychnia, 485 
Tetanus, case of, 401 
The Brown Animal Institute, 329 
The foreign cattle market, 27, 109 
The horse plague in America, 823, 950 
The metropolitan cattle market, 28, 414 
The nature of virus, 48 
The “ nerve ” of the tooth, 260, 360 
Theory, new, of nervous action, 110 
of nervous ether, 248 
The principles of botany, 12, 100, 175, 219, 315, 403, 469, 527, 613, 722, 
814, 921 
The Sporting Times and Mr. Spooner’s work on the foot of the horse, 216 
Therapeutics, modern, 117 
The recent introduction of cattle plague, 619 
The slaughter-house question, 556 
Three cases of internal obstruction in the horse, illustrated, 226 
