938 
INDEX. 
Russian veterinary students, penal sentences on, 181 
Ryding, John, his obituary, 66 
S. 
Saharunpore, north-west provinces, India, notes made during visits to Re¬ 
mount Depot at, 851 
Sale, exposing diseased meat for—pleuro-pneumonia, 759 
of milk in Melbourne, regulations for, 733 
Salicylic acids, action of, and the salicylates, 44 
Sandcrack, the treatment of, 837 
Sarcoma, spindle-celled, blocking the intestines, 82 
Sargisson, George, his obituary, 66 
Sausages, poisoning by, 573, 647 
“ Scald-head ” or porrigo scutulata, 631 
Scarlet fever and milk, 596 
Scholarship award at the Royal Veterinary College, 611 
Scotch and English examinations, 609 
Scottish Metropolitan Veterinary Medical Association, 204, 302, 530 
Essay on arthritic or joint disease in young stock, 204, 531 
Inoculation of cattle for pleuro-pneumonia, 828 
President’s inaugural address, 304 
Quarterly meeting, 82S 
Special forms of intestinal torsion and displacement of the colon 
in the horse, particularly in reference to the cause of death 
and the use of the trocar and canula in tympany, 830 
Searching for Trichinae, 511 
Season, wet, the influence of the, on the condition of stock, 732 
Seeds which germinate with difiiculty, singular method of stimulating the 
vegetation of, 645 
Selling diseased meat, 269 
Sentences, penal, on Russian veterinary students, 181 
Septicaemia in animals, 561 
Serious loss of cattle from eating yew, 263 
Serpents, poison of, 885 
Services of veterinary surgeons in Zululand, 884 
Session, opening of the, of the Glasgow Veterinary College, 898 
Royal Veterinary College, 761, 818 
44th, of the Veterinary Medical Association, 823 
Shaw, Austin Cooper, his obituary, 66 
Richard Leal, his obituary, 66 
Sheather, Charles, his detection of traces of prussic acid, 83 
Sheep in South Australia, report of the chief inspector of, for the half year 
and year ended Dec., 1878, 673 
losses, the, in the West Highlands, 505 
rot, 359 
scab, 533, 645 
law, American, 884 
Sheriff, John, his obituary, 912 
Show, Smithfield Cattle, special prizes for “food animals,” 730 
Sickness, horse, in South Africa, 33 
Singular method of stimulating the vegetation of seeds which germinate 
with difficulty, 645 
Sleeping-rooms, plants in, 892 
