TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



XXI 



Digestion page 258 



Corporeal identity 259 



Increase of height at rising 259 



Respiration 259 



Amphibious animals .... 260 



Air bladders 260 



Heat of the human body . . 261 

 Cold of the human body . . 261 

 Spontaneous combustion.. 261 

 Vital and chemical affinity 262 

 Elements of animal matter 262 



Gouty concretions 262 



Colour 262 



Stimulus 263 



Scent 263 



Specifics 263 



Antidotes page 263 



Calomel 264 



Opium 264 



Crotonoil 264 



Average annual sickness . . 264 



Corpulence 265 



Consumption 265 



Small-pox 265 



Vaccination 265 



Mortality 265 



The nosology of brutes . . 266 



Leprosy 266 



Contagion 266 



Embalming 266 



Drops 267 



Gluttony 267 



OPTICS. 



Seeing a star when not 



looking at it 269 



The retina 269 



Intense light 269 



Microscopes 270 



Invisible rays 270 



Magnifying power 270 



Strength of sight 270 



Sir William Herschel's tele- 

 scope 271 



GRAMMAR. 



Words 272 



The preposition 272 



Collectives 273 



Particles 273 



Horn Tooke's derivation of 



conjunctions 274 



Welsh pronunciation . . . 274 



Welsh words 274 



Celtic languages 275 



Language of the Incas . . 275 

 Punctuation 275 



The conjunction disjunctive 275 



Nouns of multitude 276 



The English genitive 276 



Cases and prepositions . . 276 

 Doubling the consonant . . 277 



Synonymy '. . 277 



Terms of science 277 



Writing in cypher 277 



Memoria technica 278 



A universal language ... 278 



GENERAL LITERATURE. 



Letters 279 



Printing 279 



The digamma ....... 279 



Pronunciation 280 



Greek, Hebrew, and Phoe- 

 nician characters .... 280 



