INDEX. 



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its propriety in the treatment 

 of palsy, ii. 356 ; how to be 

 used in hypochondriasis, 394. 

 in tetanus, 409; See cold 

 bathing. 



Bile, improperly supposed the 

 cause of intermittent fevers,, i. 

 504 ; occurring in typhus fev- 

 er, 525 ; frequently a cause of 

 diarrhoea, ii. 483 ; does not 

 produce diabetes, 493 ; taken 

 back into the blood-vessels in 

 jaundice, 656. 



Biliary concretions, ii. 657, 659. 



Bilious fevers, i. 526. 



Bitters employed in intermittent 

 fevers^ i. 672 ; in dyspepsia, ii. 

 381. 



Bladder, inflammation of* i. 272 ; 

 seldom primary, ii. 82. 



Blephuroptosis, i. 357* 



Blibes, ii. 199., 



Blistering, in fevers, i. 633 ; in 

 inflammation, ii. 18 ; in pneu- 

 monia, 62 ; in gastritis, 73 ; 

 injurious in nephritis and 

 cystitis, 83 ; employed in apo- 

 plexy, 345 ; in colic, 470 ; in 

 headach, 556 ; in anasarca, 

 595. 



Blood, its course, i. 158 ; the 

 powers moving it, 159 ; laws 

 of its circulation, 163 ; its dis- 

 tribution in different periods 

 of life, 165. ii. 206; its com- 

 position, i. 192 ; the proportion 

 of its constituents varies, 197 ; 

 its appearance in inflammation, 

 i. 194. ii. 2. 



Blood-letting in the cure of con- 

 tinued fevers, i. 609 ; circum- 

 stances governing its employ- 

 ment, 610, 658, 659, 660 ; 

 in inflammations, ii, 16; in 

 pneumonia, 57 ; does not pre- 

 vent expectoration, 59 ; con- 

 troversy about blood-letting in 

 pleurisy, i. 390 ; in rheuma- 

 tism, ii. 91 , in measles, 171 ; 

 scarlet fever, 178 ; erysipelas, 

 188 ; why improper in ha'inorr- 



hagy, 205, 220 ; when to be 

 employed in that disease, 220, 

 223 ; in the treatment of tu- 

 bercles, 261 ; in heemorrhagia 

 when necessary, 285 ; in apo* 

 plexy, 344 ; tetanus, 410 ; epi- 

 lepsy, 430 ; chorea, 441 ; asth- 

 ma, 452 ; hooping-cough, 460 ; 

 colic, 469 ', hysteria, 500 ; 

 mania, 525 ; headach, 555 ; 

 gonorrhoea, 643 ; jaundice, 659. 



Blood-vessels, their over-disten- 

 tion produces epilepsy, ii. 419; 



Boerhaave, (Herm.) i. 368, 410 ; 

 his opinions on the mind, 20> 

 104. 



Boerhaave (Kaaw)j i. 410. ii. 

 433. 



Bony matter, deficient in rickets> 

 ii. 624. 



Borelli, i. 401. 



Brain, is the seat of the soul, i.25> 

 102 ; its state modifies sensibil- 

 ity, 41 ; the vigour of the mus- 

 cular fibre, 98 ;- of its func- 

 tions, 102 ; causes which ex- 

 cite its action, 105 ; its alter- 

 nate states of sleep and wak- 

 ing, 117 ; explanations of these, 

 118, 120; supposed to be a 

 secretory organ, 118; increased 

 impetus in its vessels a cause 

 of wakingj 128 ; its morbid 

 states affecting sensation and 

 motion, 138; its energy dimin- 

 ished in fever, 496 ; in syn- 

 cope, ii. 363 ; determination of 

 blood to the brain in fever, i. 

 563 ; its state in apoplexy, ii. 

 333 ; its appearance in insani- 

 ty, 519 ; its state in melancho- 

 lia, 534. 



Breathing, difficult, i. 353; ii.445. 



Bronchiae, constriction of their 

 muscular fibres constitutes 

 asthma^ ii. 450. 



Bubo, i. 354 ; in the plague. 



Buffon, neglected arrangement, 

 i. 231, 449. 



Bulimia, i. 338. 



