ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



its extremes of temperature in winter and summer, 706 ; peo- 

 pled from the Asiatic continent, 744 ; comparatively recent 

 origin of, 744. 



AMPERE, on electrical polarity, 166. 



ANAXAGORAS, on the source of lightning, 306, note ; on the source 

 of animal heat, 854, note; regarded God as the universal 

 cause of organization, .859, note. 



ANCELL, Mr. on the source of animal heat, 644 ; on the coagula- 

 tion of blood, 658. 



ANDES, their elevation, 23. 



ANDRAL, on the fatal effects of tartar emetic, 975. 



ANIMA, etymology of the word, 854. 



ANIMALS, the complexity of their organization, 523 ; difference 

 between warm and cold blooded, 562; imperfect development of 

 the lower orders of, 579 ; all of them formed after one and the 

 same model, 758, 759 ; quantities of food required by carnivor- 

 ous, 918 ; rapid growth and great vital energy of herbivorous, 

 922, 923 ; domestic, the number of in Great Britain, 928, 929. 



ANIMATING principle, the most important of all problems, 455 ; 

 must be obtained from the air we breathe, or the food we eat, 

 458 ; opinion of Aristotle concerning, 541. 



ANIMATION, suspended, theory of, 828, 840 ; methods of restoring 

 pursued by nature, 836 ; and adopted by the Royal Humane 

 Society, 837, 840 ; probable limits of our art in this respect, 

 838 ; experiments on by Spallanzani, 840. 



ANTIMONY, tartarized, theory of its action, 975; causes a tem- 

 porary fever, 976. 



ANTIQUITIES, Jewish, by Josephus, 33 ; Indian, by the Rev. Mr. 

 Maurice, 857, note. 



APOPLEXY, exciting causes of, 1060, note; brought on by ex- 

 tremes of temperature, 1060 ; greater mortality from in winter 

 than summer in England, 1061 ; state of the blood in, as 

 observed by J. Hunter, 1061, note; proximate cause of, 1064; 

 danger of excessive bleeding in, 1065. 



APOLLO, a mythological personation of the sun or solar fire, 2. 



ARAGO, M. on the refractive power of mercury, 92, note ; on the 

 mean temperature of the earth, 409. 



ARCHEUS, the vital principle of Paracelsus and Van Helmont, 

 489, 625. 



ARCHELAUS, on motion and rest, 469. 



ARISTOTLE, on the Pythagorean solar system, 33 ; maintained 

 that a vacuum would destroy all motion, 36 ; on the nature of 

 the soul, 478; on the First Mover, 479; regarded the earth 

 as the centre of the planetary system, 479 ; corrupted phi- 

 losophy by over refinements, 480 ; on the mutual convertibility 

 of the elements into each other, 485 ; on the vast importance 



