INDEX. 



363 



Cell-environments may be morbidly 



modified, 20 

 Changed conditions of life, advantages 

 of, on the vital organism, 315 

 Darwin on, 315 

 Spencer on, 315 

 Chemical force, 8 

 Chemico-physical nature and mind, 



clashing of, 196 

 Child, importance of cutting short a 



malady in a, 154 

 Child's head bears definitive relation 



to shape of female pelvis, 133 n 

 Children, artificial rearing of, 286 

 instinctive habits of, 100 

 rarely die from disease due to 

 inherited morbid taint, 266 

 Civilization, and the degeneration of 

 man, 287 

 its effects on the rich and poor, 280 

 Climacteric, post-, rhythm, 54 



influence of, on intellect, 270 

 " Cockney," a typical, 102, 228, 246 

 Collins, Dr. W. J., 338 

 Complex organism, definition of the 



life of a, 18 

 Confinement, indoor, 240 

 Constipation, chronic, effects on de- 

 velopment, 152 

 Consumption of the bowels universal 

 among the London poor, 150 

 plays a large part in the destiny 

 of man, 151, 267 

 "Correlation," 144, 152 

 Cortical grey matter, 329 

 Country, causes of disease in, 250 

 overcrowded hovels in, 250 

 the great breeding-ground for 



man, 249 

 contrast between the lives of men 

 and women in, 251 

 Criterion of mortality of S and E, 298 

 "Crossing" a cause of reversion, 120 

 influence of, in causing reversion, 

 107 



D 



Dalton, theory of, 8 



Darwin, 29, 31, 42, 43, 46,47, 53, 59, 

 60, 61, 75, 80, 82, 85, 102, 143, 144, 

 157, 158, 161, 162, 188, 277, 279, 

 315, 3i8 

 Death, deficiency of 'food an indirect 

 cause of, in civilized commu- 

 nities, 210 

 inevitable causes of, 206 

 purely accidental causes of, 206, 

 207 

 Deficiency, structural, 162 

 Delivery, artificial mode of, 286 

 Dickens, and London air, 154 

 Direct equilibration, 188 

 Disease, a more or less temporary ac- 

 quisition, 97 

 an abnormal mode of life, 15, 34 

 ancestral age of, is short, 95 

 an essentially disillusionary pro- 

 cess, 277 

 attributed to spiritual agency, 331 

 a two-sided process, 173 

 definition of, 175 



hip-joint, due to errors in diet, 267 

 may remain strictly local, 23 

 must have always existed, 225 

 not an entity, 331 

 partial dissolution in, 115 

 resistance to, 300 

 sole cause of, 332 

 selection played no part in the 



evolution of, 277 

 symptoms of, 26 

 taint, 162 

 tendency, 265 



ultimately comes through E, 334 

 Diseases, division into two classes, 305 

 example of potential, 24 n 

 how far it is possible to classify, 



335 t 



in which S is abnormal, E 

 nocuous, 311 



in which there is no discoverable 

 abnormality of structure, 307 



in which there is obvious struc- 

 tural abnormality, 306 



of the mind, 341 



zymotic, disappearance of many, 

 236 

 Dissolution, 89 



