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an animal and a vegetable; and I am further of opinion that in the vegetable the two currents are in opposite states of electricity : the ascending one I hold to be positive, the descending one negative, which will account for some of the phenomena of vegetable life.

The remainder of the evening, which was protracted to a late hour, was passed in a free discussion on the different subjects that had been brought forward at the meeting, and in the interchange of those sentiments which tend to unite together the members of a common profession in terms of amity.

NOTE BY THE EDITORS.

IN closing the first volume of THE VETERINARY RECORD AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, the Editors beg to thank their friends for the support they have received it has more than realized their most sanguine expectations; and its continuance-which they earnestly solicitwill lead either to an increase in the size of the Journal, or its more frequent publication; as hitherto they have hardly been able to shew their intended arrangement, and much matter has not been inserted through want of room; while they have to apologize for Reviews of Books received not having yet appeared.

INDEX.

ABSCESS encysted, containing hair and pus in the form of peas, 147 in the brain of a sheep, 426

Acarus equi, some account of, 145

habitance of, 450

pheasiana, account of, 450

Crossii, account of, 451

Acid butyric formed by a modification of the fermentation of sugar, 4 uric and hippuric found in urine, 6

hippuric, composition of, 7

its change into benzoic acid, 6

nature of, during the digestion of starch, 243 Albuminaria in the horse associated with diabetes, 373 Ammonia, carbonate of, how formed in ill-ventilated stables, 8 in urine, 8, 424

salts of, in guano, productive of nephritis, 425

Analyses for poisons, how to be conducted, 382

Anatomy, human and veterinary, connexion and origin of, 181
Animals, grouping of, Essay on, 437

and vegetables, distinctions between, 451

domesticated, not necessarily reclaimed wild ones, 446 Anniversary, the eighth, of The Veterinary Medical Association, 14 Antimony, as a poison, mode of detection, 383

Apoplexy, parturient, successful case of, 433

Apparatus, expensive, not necessary for the acquirement of a knowledge of chemistry, 8

Arsenic, mode of action as a poison, 374

on sheep, 385

detection of, 383

history of the galvanic test for, 387

Aspidium lobatum, poisonous effects of, on calves, 231
Aston, Mr., presents specimens of drugs from India, 67

Auricle, right, of the heart, ossification of, 407, 408

Baker, Mr. W., records a case of strangulated testicle within the abdominal cavity, 421

records an instance of quick generation of pediculi, 421 Baldwin, Mr. G. T., records a case of excision of the uterus of a cow, and also of a portion of intestine that had become sacculated and filled with sand, 432

Barium, salts of, action of, on the horse, 376

how detected, 377

Barrow, Mr. R., records a case of carcinoma of the brain, 83

Basilar process of the occipital bone, fracture of, 389

Bass, Mr., in the debate on dysentery, 403

Belladonna, specific action of, 384

Benzoic acid in the urine, how formed, 6
Betel nut, a vermifuge, 67, 241

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Bile, use of, in the animal organism, 5

composition of, 7

Black quarter in cattle, a variety of charbon, 309
Bladder of sheep, calculous concretions in, 423
Blain in cattle, a variety of charbon, 309

Bodington, Mr. G., on the Management of Hunters, 392

420

on the effects of pasturage in the production of red-water,

Bones, tarsal, supernumerary, instances of, 391

Bouley, M., confirms the exchange of Journals, 421

Braby, Mr. E., elected Vice-president, 44

in the debate on influenza, 166, 169

Brain, carcinoma of, 83

abscess in, cases of, 88, 426

ossified, of an ox, 105

ossification, instances of, 241

analysis of, 114

Brande, Professor, on caincic acid, 308

Broken knee, severe case of, 414

Broad, Mr. J., elected Vice-president, 44

on the morbid appearances presented in a case of fun

goidal tumour, 428

Broad, Mr. T. D., records a case of phrenic hernia in the horse, 191

open parotid duct, 361

rupture of the iliac vessels, and

Burnett, Professor, on the betel nut, 68

Bust, presentation of a, to Professor Spooner, 9

Bye-laws, The, of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 100 Caincic acid, composition of, 308

Calculi found in the bladder and urethra of sheep, 423

Calculus, cystic, voided entire, 96

new kind of, found in the kidneys and ureters of a bitch, 251

Calomel, use of, in dysentery and diarrhoea of cattle, 402

Carlisle, Mr., his case of carditis in a bull, 119

Cartledge, Mr. B., records a case of entire removal of the hoof of a horse, and its reproduction, 75

Cartwright, Mr. W. A., records a case of sciatica in a cow, with diseased and imperforate gall-gladder, 225

Cartwright, Mr. J., in the debate on influenza, 275

dysentery, 402

Case, Mr. F. M., records a case of carcinomatous tumours in the nasal cavities of a mare, 265

Castration productive of tetanus in a lamb, 426
Cerebellum, ossification of, case of, 94

Cerebral disease simulating phrenitis, case of, 358
Charbon, Essay on, 309

the chiococca racemosa, a remedy for, 305
characteristics of the disease, 309

causes and symptoms of, 311

general seat of, 313

seat of, in the horse, 313

fowls, 315

the ox, 314

Charbon, seat of, in the pig, 315

typhous, destructive nature of, 315
treatment of, 316

singularly malignant form of, 321

Chiococca racemosa, a remedy for charbon, 305

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Christian, Mr. H., jun., records a case of encysted abscess, containing pea-shaped bodies and masses of hair, 147

Clarkson, Mr. N. F., elected member, 66

in the horse, 73

records cases of filariæ oculi, and fil. medinensis,

on the epidemic that prevailed among the horses

of H. M. 13th Dragoons at Bangalore, 143 Clendinning, Dr., on the Indian hemp, 71 Cœcum, carcinomatous growth within, 260 function of, 262

intussusception of, case of, 276

Colchicum autumnale, use of advocated in constitutional ophthalmia,

132

action of, on the horse, 136

use of, in influenza, 169

College, Royal, of Veterinary Surgeons, Bye-laws, &c. of, 100 Conversazione of the Veterinary Medical Association, account of, 436 Copper, therapeutical action of, 377

salts of, advocated as a remedy for filariæ, 378

effects of, in cases of glanders, 378

Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Report to the Profession, 296

Cox, Mr., on the connexion of parturition with red-water, 419

on the efficacy of blood-letting in red-water, 420

on the effects of pasturage in its production, 420

in the debate on influenza, 287

records a case of ossified tumour on the plexus choroides,

390

guano producing nephritis, 425
supernumerary tarsal bones, 391

on diarrhoea in cattle, an Essay on, 397

Crabb, Mr. W. C., elected Vice-president, 44

on the connexion of red-water with parturition, 420

Creasote, use of, in diabetes, 372

Crib-biting, causes of: it always constitutes unsoundness, 263

Crook, Mr. A., elected Vice-president, 44

Curb, apparatus to give pressure to, 281

Curtis, Mr. J., gives a lecture on the comparative anatomy of the ner

vous system in animals, 436

Danger and Flandin on the action of the salts of copper, 377

lead, 379

of arsenic on sheep, 386

Daunt, Dr. R. G., on the use of the cainca for charbon in the horse, 305

Daws, Mr. H., in the debate on influenza, 273

records a case of fractured pelvis; also of fractured pasterns, and the basilar process of the occipital bone, 389

Deglutition, physiology of, 62

Delafond, M., on the contagious nature of pleuro-pneumonia epizootica, 223

Delwart, Prof., on diabetes in the horse, 137

Dentition, Essay on, 290

Dextrin found in the stomach during the digestion of starch, 248
Diabetes in the horse, cases of, 371

Diarrhoea in cattle, acute, 397

Dickens, Mr., his case of congenital hydrocephalus in a foal, 117
Digitalis, specific action of, 384

Diplomas, names of those who have obtained them from the Royal
College of Veterinary Surgeons, 203

Dislocation of the fetlock joint, case of, 186
Dray horses in India, description of, 203
Dropping after calving, Essay on, 366
Drugs from India, presentation of, 67
Duct, open parotid, case of, in a cow, 353
horse, 361

Dumas on the production of fat, 3

Dunsford, Mr., in the debate on influenza, 275

on the use of hydrochlorate of ammonia for curbs, 282 Dyer, Mr. R. H., on the effects of iodine on cattle, 124 Dysentery in cattle, acute, 398

sub-acute, 399

constitutional, 400

Effects produced by the saliva of a rabid sheep on rabbits, 350
Epizootics, history of, 27

causes of, 33

Epizootic, bovine, peculiarities of, 35

not a sequela of eczema, 36

Epizootic, the, which prevailed at Bangalore, account of, 142
Ernes, Mr. W., re-elected Vice-president, 44

on constitutional ophthalmia, 138

on the action of the meadow saffron, 139

on the acarus equi, 145

on strangulation of the rectum, 149

on influenza in horses, 151

in the debate on the same, 271

translation of a paper on the pleuro-pneumonia epizoo

tica, from the Belgian Veterinary Journal, 194

notes on the malignant typhus among cattle, 196
his Essay on "Charbon," 309

on the therapeutic action of medicines, 389

Examiners, board of, of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 203 Fallopian tubes, effects of the obliteration of, 413

Fat, production of, 2, 3

formation of, connected with bile, 6

Fatty tumours, cases of, 411, 412

Fauces, anatomy of, 45

the, description of, 58

Feet malformed, experimental operation for, 417
Fern, close-leaved prickly, a poison to calves, 231

Fetlock joint, case of dislocation of, 186

Field, Mr. W., re-elected Vice-president, 44

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