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when diseased, 1043, 1056; states of in the various forms of 

 fever, 1058 ; in apoplexy, 1061 ; the alpha and omega of 

 health, 1076. 



BLUMENBACH, his nisus formativus, 499, note ; on the state of 

 the brain during sleep, 949 ; on the influence of climate on the 

 pulse, 945. 



BOERHAAVE, his views of the nervous fluid, 584 ; on the universal 

 catholic fluid, or anima mundi, 585 ; on the source of animal 

 heat, 585 ; on the cause of fever and spasms, 585 ; his theory 

 of digestion, 626 ; of temperament, 988. 



BOREALIS, aurora, observations on by Hansteen, 362-366; Han- 

 steen's theory of, 363 ; observations on by Bonnycastle, Ross, 

 Parry, Scoresby, Field, and Bergman, 364, 366. 

 BOSCOVICH, his atomic theory, 46. 



BOUSSINGAULT, on the ingesta and egesta of the horse and cow, 

 915 ; on the proportions of solid matter in different species of 

 food, 916. 

 BOYLE, letter of Newton to concerning the aether, 4 ; on the 



cohesion of liquids, 138 ; on the blood, 645. 

 BRAHMINS, why they employed cold bathing and vegetable food, 



889. 



BRAIN, relative size of among different kinds of animals, 571, 

 595, 598; size of in birds, 571; size of in reptiles, 579; 

 in the ostrich, 595 ; in the horse, ox, and whale, 596, 598 ; 

 specific office of, 599-600 ; compared to the commander of an 

 army, 602 ; its abundant supply of blood, 603 ; why it dies 

 before the other organs, 604. 

 BRANDE, Mr. on detonating compounds, 132 ; on the proportions 



of solid matter in meat, 889, note. 

 BREE, Dr. on the coldness of his body during a fit of asthma, 



797, note. 



BREWSTER, Sir David, his experiments on the refraction of light, 

 91 ; his theory of its ultimate composition, 99 ; his experiments 

 on the absorption and transmission of light, 102; his experi- 

 ments on capillary attraction, 258. 



BRITAIN, the excellence of its climate and people, 704, 705. 

 BRODIE, Sir Benjamin, on the source of animal heat, 534 ; on the 

 heart's action, 615 ; on the effect of dividing the nervus vagus 

 in cats, 956 ; on the modus operandi of poisons, 966 ; on the 

 effects of alcohol, 972 ; on hydrophobia, 1027. 

 BRONCHITIS, theory of, 796. 

 BROUGHAM, Lord, regards mind as independent of sensation, 601 ; 



his organization and temperament, 1000, 1001. 

 BROUSSAIS, the tendency of his physiological doctrines, 983. 

 BROWN, Dr. John, on his theory of excitability, 499. 

 BROWN, Dr. Thomas, his theory of causation, 502. 



