Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4 / The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author

by Benjamin Rush

INDEX.

• A.
• Anthelmintics, i. [228]
• Arsenic, a remedy for cancerous sores, i. [240]
• Army of the United States, diseases of, i. [269]
• ——, causes of, i. [272]
• ——, remedies for, i. [ibid.]
• Agriculture, the practice of, recommended to country physicians, i. [388]
• Age, old, observations on the state of the body and mind in, i. [427]
• ——, its diseases, i. [446]
• ——, ——, their remedies, i. [449]
• Air, cool, its good effects in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. [279]
• Association of ideas, its effects upon morals, ii. [45]
• B.
• Barometer, its mean elevation in Philadelphia, i. [96]
• Blisters, their efficacy in obstinate intermittents, i. [179]
• ——, —— in the bilious fever of 1780, i. [128]
• ——, —— in the yellow fever of 1803, when applied in its early stage, iv. [141]
• Bed, lying in, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. [128]
• Bleeding, its efficacy in the cure of obstinate intermittents, i. [179]
• ——, —— in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. [253]
• ——, reasons for the practice, iii. [254]
• ——, circumstances which regulated it, iii. [261]
• ——, objections to it answered, iii. [269]
• ——, gradual manner of abstracting blood recommended, iii. [273]
• Blood-letting, defence of it as a remedy for certain diseases, iv. [275]
• ——, indicated in fevers, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, its good effects in fevers, iv. [277]
• ——, objections to it answered, iv. [284]
• ——, its comparative advantages, iv. [313]
• ——, circumstances which should regulate its use, iv. [316]
• ——, appearances of the blood, iv. [326]
• ——, when forbidden, or to be used cautiously, iv. [344]
• ——, its advantages in pregnancy, iv. [349]
• ——, in parturition, iv. [353]
• ——, during the cessation of the menses, iv. [356]
• ——, in curing the disease induced by a large dose of opium, iv. [357]
• ——, in curing the disease induced by poison, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, in diabetes, iv. [ibid.]
• Blood-letting, in dislocated bones, iv. [358]
• Blood, quantity drawn from several persons in 1797, iv. [37]
• ——, appearances of it in 1793, iii. [256]
• ——, —— in 1794, iii. [404]
• C.
• Civilization, diseases derived from it, i. [32]
• ——, —— not necessarily connected with it, i. [60]
• Climate of Pennsylvania, account of, i. [71]
• ——, its changes, i. [76]
• ——, its temperature, i. [78]
• ——, its effects upon health and life, i. [108]
• Calomel, useful joined with emetics in scarlatina anginosa, i. [144]
• ——, its effects as a purge, when combined with jalap, in the yellow fever, iii. [241]
• ——, objections to it answered, iii. [243]
• Contagious, the yellow fever not so, iv. [223]
• Cholera infantum described, i. [157]
• ——, a form of bilious fever, i. [158]
• ——, its remedies, i. [160]
• ——, means of preventing it, i. [164]
• Cynanche trachealis, its different names, i. [169]
• ——, appearances in the trachea after death, i. [170]
• ——, its different grades, i. [171]
• ——, its remedies in its forming state, i. [ibid.]
• ——, its remedies after it is formed, i. [172]
• ——, favourable and unfavourable signs of its issue, i. [174]
• Consumption, pulmonary, thoughts on, i. [199]
• Consumption, pulmonary, Indians, and persons who lead laborious lives, not subject to it, i. [200]
• ——, radical remedies for it in exercise, labour, and the hardships of a camp and naval life, i. [204]
• ——, its causes, ii. [62]
• ——, not contagious, ii. [79]
• ——, tracheal, described, ii. [84]
• ——, its remedies, ii. [87]
• ——, premonitory signs, ii. ibid.
• ——, of the remedies for its inflammatory state, ii. [89]
• ——, of blood-letting, ii. ibid.
• ——, of a vegetable diet, ii. [104]
• ——, of the remedies for its hectic state, ii. [107]
• ——, for its typhus state, ii. [108]
• ——, of its radical remedies, ii. [128]
• ——, of exercise, ii. [ibid.]
• ——, of travelling, ii. [137]
• ——, signs of its long or short duration, and of its issue in life and death, ii. [144]
• ——, its different ways of terminating in death, ii. [147]
• College of physicians, their letter to the citizens of Philadelphia, declaring the existence of the yellow fever in the city, &c. in 1793, iii. [82]
• ——, their letter to the governor of the state, on the origin of the yellow fever in 1793, iii. [197]
• ——, their opinion of the origin of the fever in 1799, iv. [100]
• D.
• Diseases of the Indians, i. [16]
• ——, from civilization, i. [30]
• Diseases produced by ardent spirits, i. [343]
• ——, of the military hospitals, during the revolutionary war between Great-Britain and the United States, i. [269]
• ——, of old age, i. [446]
• Drunkenness, a fit of it described, i. [338]
• ——, remedies for it, i. [374]
• Disease, summer and autumnal, its sources, iv. [163]
• ——, means of preventing it in its malignant forms, iv. [173]
• ——, in its mild forms, iv. [198]
• ——, in its intestinal forms, iv. [200]
• ——, of preserving cities and communities from them, iv. [202]
• ——, of exterminating them, iv. [210]
• ——, from drinking cold water, i. [186]
• ——, ——, how prevented, i. [ibid.]
• ——, ——, its cure, i. [185]
• Dropsies, their causes, ii. [151]
• ——, divided into inflammatory, and of weak morbid action in the blood-vessels, ii. [157]
• ——, remedies for the inflammatory state of, ii. [160]
• ——, ——, with weak morbid action in the blood-vessels, ii. [176]
• Dropsy of the brain, internal, ii. [191]
• ——, its history, ii. [195]
• ——, its causes, ii. [203]
• ——, its cure, ii. [210]
• Distress, familiarity with it, its moral effects, ii. [46]
• Death, its proximate cause, ii. [447]
• E.
• Emetics, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. [186]
• ——, in the scarlatina anginosa of 1783 and 1784, i. [144]
• ——, in the yellow fever of 1798, iv. [79]
• ——, in the yellow fever of 1799, iv. [97]
• ——, hurtful in the yellow fever of 1797, iv. [44]
• Exhalations, putrid, their sources and effects in producing the summer and autumnal disease, iv. [163]
• F.
• Faculty, moral, inquiry into the influence of physical causes on, ii. [3]
• Fruits, summer, useful in destroying worms, i. [229]
• Fever, bilious, history of it in 1780, i. [117]
• ——, outlines of a theory of, iii. [3]
• ——, its unity asserted, iii. [17]
• ——, unity of its exciting causes, iii. [16]
• ——, objections to a nosological arrangement of its different forms, iii. [33]
• ——, effects of, iii. [39]
• ——, different states of, enumerated, iii. [41]
• ——, objections to putrefaction in, iii. [43]
• ——, bilious yellow, history of, in 1793, iii. [69]
• ——, ——, its exciting causes, iii. [88]
• ——, ——, its premonitory signs, iii. [93]
• ——, ——, its first symptoms, iii. [95]
• ——, ——, symptoms of it in the blood-vessels, iii. [97]
• ——, ——, ——, in the liver, lungs, and brain, iii. [104]
• ——, ——, ——, in the stomach and bowels, iii. [108]
• ——, ——, ——, in the secretions and excretions, iii. [110]
• Fever, bilious yellow, symptoms of it, in the nervous system, iii. [116]
• ——, ——, ——, in the senses and appetites, iii. [122]
• ——, ——, ——, in the lymphatic and glandular system, iii. [124]
• ——, ——, ——, on the skin, iii. [125]
• ——, ——, ——, in the blood, iii. [128]
• ——, ——, nature of the black vomit, iii. [111]
• ——, ——, types of the, iii. [135]
• ——, ——, the empire of, over all other diseases, iii. [139]
• ——, ——, who most subject to it, iii. [148]
• ——, ——, negroes affected by it in common with white people, iii. [151]
• ——, ——, state of the atmosphere during the prevalence of, iii. [158]
• ——, ——, signs of the presence of miasmata in the body, universal, iii. [157]
• ——, ——, cases of re-infection, iii. [164]
• ——, ——, external appearances of the body after death in, iii. [165]
• ——, ——, appearances of the body by dissection, iii. [167]
• ——, ——, account of the distress of the city, iii. [175]
• ——, ——, its moral effects upon the inhabitants, iii. [179]
• ——, ——, number of deaths from it, iii. [181]
• ——, ——, is checked and destroyed by rain, iii. [184]
• ——, ——, inquiry into its origin by the governor of the state, iii. [196]
• ——, ——, said to be imported by the college of physicians, iii. [197]
• ——, ——, objections to their opinion, and proofs of its domestic origin, iii. [198]
• ——, the sameness of its origin with the plague, iii. [211]
• ——, state of the weather in 1793, iii. [215]
• ——, method of cure, iii. [223]
• ——, dissentions of the physicians, iii. [235]
• ——, of purging, iii. [239]
• ——, its salutary effects, iii. [241]
• ——, objections to it answered, iii. [243]
• ——, blood-letting, its utility, iii. [253]
• ——, salivation, its utility, iii. [284]
• ——, convalescence, iii. [289]
• ——, remarks on the use of stimulating remedies in this fever, iii. [292]
• ——, comparative view of the success of all the modes of practice employed in the fever, iii. [298]
• Fever, yellow, of 1794, history of, iii. [357]
• ——, its exciting causes, iii. [367]
• ——, symptoms in the different systems of the body, iii. [369]
• ——, in the blood-vessels, iii. ibid.
• ——, in the viscera, iii. [371]
• ——, in the alimentary canal, iii. [373]
• ——, in the secretions and excretions, iii. [375]
• ——, in the nervous system, iii. [379]
• ——, in the senses and appetites, iii. [383]
• ——, in the lymphatic system, iii. [ibid.]
• ——, in the blood, iii. [387]
• ——, different forms of the fever, iii. [388]
• ——, its origin, iii. [397]
• ——, method of cure, iii. [401]
• ——, bleeding, iii. [402]
• ——, good effects of cool air and cold water in, iii. [409]
• ——, of a salivation, iii. [411]
• ——, of blisters, iii. [413]
• ——, of tonic remedies, iii. [415]
• ——, of the inefficacy of bark, iii. [ibid.]
• ——, of the effects of wine, iii. [418]
• ——, ——, of opium, iii. [419]
• ——, ——, of nitre, iii. [421]
• ——, ——, of antimonials, iii. [ibid.]
• Fever, yellow, sporadic cases of, in the years 1795 and 1796, iii. [437]
• Fever, yellow, of 1797, iv. [3]
• ——, symptoms of, iv. [13]
• ——, type of, iv. [20]
• ——, different forms of, iv. [21]
• ——, influence of the moon upon it, iv. [27]
• ——, number of deaths, particularly of physicians, iv. [30]
• ——, origin of it, iv. [33]
• ——, its remedies, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, of bleeding, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, of purging medicines, iv. [37]
• ——, of a salivation, iv. [39]
• ——, different ways in which mercury acted upon the mouth and throat, iv. [40]
• ——, of emetics, iv. [44]
• ——, of diet and drinks, iv. [45]
• ——, of tonic remedies, iv. [49]
• ——, of blisters, iv. [49]
• ——, of sweet oil, iv. [51]
• ——, relative success of different modes of practice, iv. [53]
• ——, signs of a favourable and unfavourable issue of the fever, iv. [55]
• Fever, yellow, of 1798, account of, iv. [67]
• ——, symptoms of, iv. [68]
• ——, in the blood-vessels, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, alimentary canal, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, on the tongue, iv. [69]
• ——, in the nervous system, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, in the eyes, lymphatics, and blood, iv. [71]
• ——, different modes in which it terminated in death, iv. [74]
• ——, state of the weather in 1798, iv. [77]
• ——, origin of the fever, iv. [78]
• ——, remedies for it, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, bleeding, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, emetics, iv. [79]
• ——, purges, iv. [81]
• ——, of a salivation, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, of sweats, iv. [82]
• ——, of bark, iv. [83]
• ——, of blisters, iv. [ibid.]
• ——, symptoms which indicated a favourable and unfavourable issue of the disease, iv. [84]
• ——, different modes of practice in this fever, and their different success, iv. [85]
• Fever, bilious, of 1799, iv. [91]
• ——, sickliness among certain animals, iv. [94]
• ——, its symptoms, iv. [95]
• ——, its remedies, iv. [97]
• Fever, yellow, of 1799, signs of a favourable and unfavourable issue of it, iv. [99]
• ——, its origin, iv. [100]
• Fever, yellow, sporadic cases of, in 1800, iv. [103]
• ——, ——, in 1801, iv. [111]
• Fever, yellow, of 1802, account of, iv. [123]
• ——, its origin, iv. [123]
• ——, its types, iv. [127]
• Fever, yellow, as it appeared in 1803, iv. [133]
• ——, symptoms of, iv. [136]
• ——, remedies for, iv. [139]
• Fever, yellow, sporadic cases in 1804, iv. [147]
• Fever, yellow, as it appeared in 1805, iv. [153]
• ——, its origin, iv. [155]
• ——, its remedies, iv. [156]
• ——, not contagious, iv. [223]
• G.
• Gout, peculiarities belonging to it, ii. [227]
• ——, its remote causes, ii. [230]
• ——, women most subject to it, ii. [232]
• ——, its exciting causes, ii. ibid.
• ——, its symptoms, ii. [234]
• ——, method of cure, ii. [251]
• ——, remedies in its forming state, ii. [253]
• ——, in a paroxysm, when attended with great morbid or inflammatory action in the blood-vessels, ii. [252]
• ——, when attended with weak morbid action in the blood-vessels, ii. [269]
• ——, remedies for its symptoms, ii. [275]
• ——, means for preventing the return of inflammatory, ii. [285]
• ——, with weak morbid action, ii. [293]
• H.
• Hospitals, their origin, i. [55]
• ——, military, their evils, i. [276]
• ——, constructed with ground floors, to be preferred in fevers, i. [275]
• Heat, greatest in Philadelphia, i. [87]
• Habit, its effects upon morals, ii. [43]
• Hæmoptysis, observations on, i. [191]
• Hydrophobia, observations on, ii. [301]
• ——, its causes, ii. [302]
• ——, its symptoms in rabid animals, ii. [306]
• ——, ——, in the human species, ii. [308]
• ——, supposed to be a malignant fever, ii. [ibid.]
• ——, remedies to prevent it, ii. [315]
• ——, ——, to cure it in its malignant or inflammatory state, ii. [317]
• ——, ——, to cure it when attended with weak morbid action in the blood-vessels, ii. [323]
• ——, death from it, supposed to be from suffocation, ii. [326]
• ——, laryngotomy suggested to prevent it, ii. [332]
• I.
• Indians, oration on their diseases and remedies, i. [3]
• ——, peculiar customs of their women, i. [9]
• ——, ——, of their men, i. [11]
• ——, ——, of both sexes, i. [12]
• Indians, their diseases, i. [16]
• ——, their remedies, i. [20]
• ——, comparative view of their diseases and remedies with those of civilized nations, i. [39]
• Iron, its preparations useful in destroying worms, i. [232]
• Imitation, its effects upon morals, ii. [42]
• Influenza, account of it, as it appeared in Philadelphia in 1789, 1790, and 1791, ii. [353]
• ——, history of its symptoms, ii. [354]
• ——, mode of treatment, ii. [360]
• Jaw-fall, or trismus, in infants, i. [254]
• L.
• Laudanum, its efficacy in the disease brought on by drinking cold water in hot weather, i. [185]
• Legs, sore, observations on, i. [411]
• ——, classes of people most subject to them, i. [412]
• ——, their remedies, i. [416]
• Longevity, circumstances which favour it, i. [428]
• Life, animal, inquiry into its causes, ii. [371]
• ——, a forced state, or the effects of impressions, ii. [377]
• ——, enumeration of those impressions, ii. [378]
• ——, how supported in sleep, ii. [397]
• ——, in the fœtus in utero, ii. [404]
• ——, in infancy, ii. [405]
• ——, in youth, ii. [409]
• ——, in middle life, ii. [410]
• ——, in old age, ii. [ibid.]
• ——, in persons blind, or deaf and dumb from their birth, ii. [414]
• Life, in idiots, ii. [416]
• ——, after long abstinence, ii. [417]
• ——, in asphyxia, ii. [419]
• ——, in the Indians of North-America, ii. [427]
• ——, in the Africans, ii. [428]
• ——, in the Turkish empire, ii. [429]
• ——, in China and the East-Indies, ii. [431]
• ——, in the poor inhabitants of Europe, ii. [432]
• ——, stimuli which act alike in promoting it upon all nations, ii. [434]
• ——, how supported in sundry animals, ii. [441]
• ——, its extinction in death, how effected, ii. [447]
• M.
• Midwifery, the practice of it more successful by men than by women, i. [53]
• Manufactures, sedentary, unfriendly to the health of men, i. [65]
• Measles, history of, in 1789, ii. [338]
• ——, their symptoms, ii. [339]
• ——, a spurious, or external form of them described, ii. [342]
• ——, remedies used in them, ii. [346]
• ——, history of them, as they appeared in 1801, iv. [117]
• Medicine, an inquiry into its comparative state, in Philadelphia, between 1760 and 1766, and 1805, iv. [365]
• Diet of the inhabitants between 1760 and 1766, iv. [366]
• Dresses, iv. [368]
• Customs which had an influence on health, iv. [369]
• Diseases, iv. [370]
• N.
• Nature, meaning of the term, i. [35]
• ——, the extent of her powers in curing diseases, i. [20]
• Nosology, objections to it, iii. [33]
• Negroes subject to the yellow fever in common with the white people, iii. [366]
• O.
• Opium, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. [130]
• ——, the disease induced by it cured by blood-letting, iv. [357]
• Onion juice, useful in destroying worms, i. [231]
• P.
• Philadelphia, its situation, i. [74]
• ——, population, i. [76]
• ——, diseases between 1760 and 1766, and 1805, iv. [365]
• Purges, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. [127]
• ——, ——, in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. [231]
• ——, objections to them answered, iii. [243]
• Pulse, state of, in old people, i. [439]
• ——, in the yellow fever of 1793, in persons not confined with it, iii. [157]
• ——, in fevers, when it indicates blood-letting, iv. [316]
• Putrefaction, does not take place in the blood, iii. [43]
• Pregnancy, a morbid state of the system, iv. [349]
• ——, effects of blood-letting in relieving its diseases, iv. [ibid.]
• Parturition, a disease, iv. [353]
• ——, effects of blood-letting in lessening its pains, iv. [ibid.]
• Q.
• Quarantine laws, their inefficacy to prevent a yellow fever, iv. [218]
• ——, their evils, iv. ibid.
• R.
• Rain, usual quantity in Pennsylvania, i. [72]
• Revolution, American, its influence upon the human body and mind, i. [279]
• S.
• Snow, common depth in Pennsylvania, i. [91]
• Sweating described among the Indians of North-America, i. [22]
• Scarlatina anginosa of 1783 and 1784 described, i. [138]
• ——, additional observations on, i. [147]
• ——, prevented by gentle purges, i. [151]
• ——, cured by emetics in its forming state, i. [150]
• Salt, common, useful in the hæmoptysis, i. [192]
• ——, in destroying worms, i. [230]
• Sugar, useful in destroying worms, i. [ibid.]
• Spirits, ardent, their effects upon the human body and mind, i. [337]
• ——, diseases produced by them, i. [343]
• ——, their effects on property, i. [347]
• ——, substitutes for them, i. [353]
• ——, persons predisposed to their use, i. [360]
• ——, their influence upon the population of the United States, i. [364]
• Sweats, useful in the yellow fever of 1803, iv. [140]
• Salivation, its usefulness in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. [284]
• ——, ——, of 1794, iii. [411]
• ——, ——, of 1797, iv. [49]
• ——, ——, of 1798, iv. [81]
• Small-pox, new mode of inoculating for, i. [311]
• T.
• Tetanus, its causes, i. [248]
• ——, its remedies when from wounds, i. [256]
• ——, ——, when from other causes, i. [259]
• W.
• Winters, cold, in Pennsylvania, i. [76], [77], [79]
• Winds, common, in Pennsylvania, i. [90]
• Water, cold, disease from drinking it when the body is preternaturally heated, i. [184]
• Worms, natural to young children, and to young animals, i. [218]
• ——, intended, probably, to prevent disease, i. [219]
• ——, destroyed by medicines that act mechanically and chemically upon them, i. [128]
• Wounds, gun-shot, in joints, followed by death, i. [274]

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