ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



ABERNETHY, on Hunter's theory of life, 499 ; his partial view of 

 gastric diseases, 954. 



ADONAI, a Hebrew title of the Deity, and a Phoenician name of 

 the sun, 739. 



ADONIS, statue of, represents the average stature of man in ancient 

 Greece, 722. 



.ESTHER, speculations of Sir I. Newton concerning, 4, 38 ; an 

 ancient oriental word, signifying solar fire, 5, note ; views of 

 Mr. Whewell, 37, note; circulation of throughout the solar 

 system, 41 ; centripetal force of, 41 ; regarded by the ancients 

 as the actuating principle in nature, 740 ; represented as the 

 spirit of life by a priest of Memphis, 741 ; said to be Jove or 

 Jupiter by Servius, Euripides, and Ennius, 741 ; called Pater 

 Omnipotens by Virgil, 741; views of Macrobius,742; regarded 

 by Hippocrates as spirit, and identical with heat, 854. 



ADRIAN, on the nature of the soul, 853, note. 



AESCULAPIUS, vide ESCULAPIUS. 



AFFINITY, chemical, primary origin of, 17, 1 10 ; rationale of, 200. 



AFRICA, its mountains and elevated table lands, 24 ; population of, 

 700; its burning climate, 701 ; character of its tropical inha- 

 bitants, 703 ; how it modifies the climate of Europe, 706. 



AGASSIZ, M. Louis, on the glacial period, 416. 



AGE, how it modifies the vital functions, 682 ; divisions of by 

 Hippocrates, 682, note; general character of its diseases, 805, 

 806. 



AGUE, a general but mitigated form of apoplexy and paralysis, 

 1060, 1061, note; the primordial type of all diseases, 1062, 

 note. 



AIR, atmospheric, its elastic force, 111; its composition, 116; 

 etymology of the word, 853, 856. 



ALCOHOL, solidified by Bussy, 143 ; result of its combustion, 85 ; 

 proportions of in spirits, wine, and malt liquors, 932; its 

 effects on the animal economy, 932, 972. 



ALISON, Dr. regards sensation and thought as independent of 

 vitality, 601, note; on the prevalence of scrophulous maladies 

 in Edinburgh, 798 ; on the difficulty of explaining the phe- 

 nomena of fever, 1034, note. 



AM, a Hebrew and Egyptian word signifying heat and exist- 

 ence,- 2. 



AMERICA, heights of its mountains, 22; coldness of its polar 

 regions, 695, note ; its population and future prospects, 698 ; 



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