Should these lectures contribute in any degree to lessen the future sufferings of my hearers, or any of their friends, I shall not have delivered them in vain. To be assured of this, would be the greatest pleasure that I could receive.
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INDEX.
A. Air, its properties—its components Animals, specific temperature of Appetite, artificial Arteries, their structure and office Assimilation, from the blood Attention, fixed on new objects
B.
Banks, Sir Joseph, his almost fatal experience of cold
Beddoes, Dr. his remarks on temperature,
Bile, its properties
Blood, difference between arterial and venous
contains iron
changes produced on, by the different gases
assimilation from
Bones, mechanism of
structure of
Brown, Dr. John, his example followed
declines a definition of excitability
denies the existence of sedatives
his cure of diseases of exhaustion objected to
his theory will be as durable as Newton's philosophy
not aware of the extent of his own theory
C. Camera obscura Colour of different nations Cooper, Mr. Astley, successfully perforates the tympanum of the ear Circulation of the blood through the lungs through the liver affected by centrifugal force discovered by Harvey, and derided Cullen, Dr. his system defective Currie, Dr. his treatment of typhus
D.
Darwin, Dr. quoted
Digestion, organs of
process of
diseases affecting
Diseases
sthenic
asthenic
fallacy of symptoms
Diseases, method of cure
spasmodic, of extreme vess.
classification of
nervous and bilious (so called)
of the poor
Dollond, Mr. his achromatic lenses, first suggested by Dr. David
Gregory
E.
Ear, description of
diseases of
tympanum perforated
Electricity, phenomena of
useful in gout
Excitability, or vital principle
how affected by heat, food, air, &c.
accumulated by sleep
three states of
its accumulation, and exhaustion illustrated
an unknown indefinable somewhat
connected with oxygen
hypothesis respecting this connexion
scale of
how to be regulated in gout
Exercise
on horseback, best
Eye, description of
vertical section of
its accommodating power
F. Food, animal and vegetable in gout