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INDEX 



Madness, i. 318; ii. 521. 



, canine, ii. 506. 



Marcores, i. 320. 



Marsh effluvia, i. 544. 



Mania, i. 318 ; ii. 521. 



Measles, i. 277; ii, 167; suc- 

 ceeded by inflammatory affec- 

 tions, 170. 



Mechanical impressions giving 

 pain, i. 54. 



Medicine defined, i. 3; literary 

 history of, 365 ; tripod of, 

 379, 420. 



Medicines operating on the stom- 

 ach, and only by sympathy on 

 the system in general, i. 153. 



Melcena, ii. 213, 271, 304, 

 485. 



Melancholia, i. 377 ; ii- 524. 



Melancholic headach. ii. 552. 



Memory, i. 46, 47. 



Menorrkagia, i. 286 ; ii. 280. 



Menses, their interruption, ii. 

 291 ; their immoderate flow, 

 280. 



Mercury, mentioned by Rhazes, 

 i. 391 ; its use in ophthalmia, 

 ii. 28 ; in chronic rheumatism, 

 101 ; of no service in phthi- 

 sis, 265; employed in tetanus, 

 411; in epilepsy, 436; in the 

 cure of syphilis, 645 ; mercu- 

 rial injections in gonorrhoea, ii. 

 643. 



Method of study, i. 415; of treat- 

 ment,!. 443. 



Methodic sect of physicians, i. 

 307, 381, 400. 



Metrorrhagia, i. 286 ; ii. 280. 



Mezereon, employed in syphilis, 

 ii. 647. 



Miasmata, remote causes of fevers, 

 i. 541 ; arising from marshes, 

 543; favoured by moisture and 

 heat, ibid. 



Miliary fever, i. 280 ; ii. 191 ; 

 red and white miliary erup- 

 tion, 192; doubts whether it 

 is idiopathic, 193. 

 Milk diet, its propriety in gout, 

 ii. 128 ; its use in phthisis, ii. 

 261 ; in rickets, 627. 



Milman (Dr.) on the use of drink 



in dropsy, ii. 507. 

 Mind, immaterial, i. 17 ; con- 

 nected with the brain, 102 ; 

 its exercise to be avoided in 

 fevers, 603 ; how managed in 

 hypochondriasis, ii. 395. 

 Mixture of the solid, i. 11. 

 Mobility of muscular fibre, i. 65, 

 83 ; its morbid states, 98 ; af- 

 fected by the state of the brain, 

 142. 



of the nervous power des- 

 troyed, ii. 333. 



in the constitution, cause 



of epilepsy, ii. 425 ; to be di- 

 minished in hysteria, ii. 505. 

 Moisture, with cold, may pro- 

 duce dyspepsia, i. 375; scur- 

 vy, 650. 

 Morbus mucosus of Roederer, ii. 



320. 

 niger. See Melaena. 



cceliacus, ii, 486. 



Motions, voluntary, i. 1 05 ; their 

 debility in fevers, 573 ; their 

 irregularity in fevers, 575. 

 of the body, to be avoid- 

 ed in fevers, i. 602. 



loss of, in the vital and 



natural functions, ii. 362. 

 Moving fibres, action of, i. 63. 

 Mucus of expectoration, how dis- 

 tinguished from pus, ii. 240. 



intestinal, increased in 



quantity, ii. 485. 



Mumps, i. 264. ii. 44. 



Muscles, Muscular fibre, i. 16, 

 63. 



muscular motion, i. 63 ; 



does not depend on the motion 

 of the blood, 70 ; nor upon the 

 inflation of vesicles, 71 ; but 

 probably on an increase of the 

 contractibility of the simple 

 solid, 72. 



muscular contractions 



often repeated produce fatigue, 

 i. 89 ; are performed with more 

 facility or force, 90. 



their morbid state of 



vigour, or mobility, i. 93 ; their 



