INDEX. 



Academy of medicine and ani- 

 mal magnetism, 196 



Adams, discovery of Neptune 

 by, 93 



Air, importance of pure, 257 



Alcoholism, increase of deaths 

 from, 8(i2 



Alexis, clairvoyance of, 204 



Alkali works dangerous, 355 



Alloys, properties of, 56 



Amiens, flint implements of, 131 



Anaesthetics, 147 



Animal magnetism discovered by 

 Mesmer, 194 

 report on, 196 



Antiseptic surgery, 148 



Antiquity of man, 130 



Argand lamps, 28 



Armies, enormous modern, 335 



Army and navy, revaccination of 

 useless, 280 



statistics of small-pox in, 

 281 



Astronomy, discoveries in, 93 



Bacteria, uses of, 146 

 Barometer, when invented, 152 

 Battleships, modern, 334 

 Bavaria, small-pox and vaccina- 

 tion in, 265 

 proves uselessness of vacci- 



tion, 266 



Bellamy's "Looking Backward," 

 22 



" Equality," 385 

 Berlin, severe epidemics in, 264 

 Bicycle, speed of, 9 



Biggs, Mr. T., statistics of Leices- 



ter mortality, 271 



cross-examination of, 279 

 Bills of mortality and dissenters, 



245 

 Birch, John, on failure of vac- 



cination, 220 

 Birmingham and Leicester small- 



pox, 275 

 Births, premature, increase of, 



362 

 Blood, function of white corpus- 



cles of, 144 



Blue color of sky and ocean, 70 

 Bombay, insanitary condition of, 



339 



Bread, free, suggested, 385 

 Britain, glaciation of, 125 

 Brodie, Sir B., on painless opera- 



tions under mesmerism, 208 

 Brown of Musselburgh on small- 



pox after vaccination in 1809, 



220 



Cairns, Professor, on necessary 



results of capitalism, 358 

 Calcutta, sanitary report on, 340 

 Candles, 28 



in lighthouses, 29 

 Carpenter, Dr. W. B., on clair- 



voyance, 202, 204 

 Carriages in Homer's time, 6 



earliest in England, 6 

 Cell theory, 143 

 Certificates of death after vacci- 



nation often erroneous, 229 

 Ceylon, destruction of fertility 



in, 373 

 Chariots, Egyptian and British, 



