ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



relative quantities of in different bodies, 73; difficulty of the 

 subject, 75; experiments of Dalton on, 76, 77; quantities of 

 evolved during the combustion of different bodies, 84, 85 ; the 

 cause of refraction, 90 ; the creator of forms, 93, 98 ; the active 

 principle in light, 100 ; why it repels its own particles, 109 

 more subtile than light, 109 ; not infinitely divisible, 109, note ; 

 why its forces diminish as the squares of the distance augment, 

 1 09 ; although the cause of all action, could not act in the total 

 absence of ponderable matter, 110; its actions modified by- 

 ponderable matter, 110; governed by immutable laws, and 

 their origin, 110; causes the elastic force of gaseous bodies, 

 111; repulsive force of counteracted by its attraction for pon- 

 derable matter, 112; how it is concentrated around the mole- 

 cules of ponderable matter, 112; causes the atoms of hydrogen 

 to combine with those of chlorine, 113 ; effects of its attraction 

 for ponderable matter and repulsion of its own particles, 176 ; 

 causes fluids to unite with solids, and the particles of both to 

 cohere, 179, 182 ; the grand chemist of nature, 199 ; all liquids 

 and gases, solutions of ponderable matter in, 213 ; the universal 

 solvent, 228; cause of the heart's action, 618, 620; of vital 

 capillary circulation, 621, 622; the cause of digestion, 627; 

 of sanguification, 631, 638 ; of vital affinity, and of secretion, 

 667, 668 ; of vital dynamics, 672 ; causes the particles of 

 arterial blood to unite with the solids, 678 ; is expended in 

 maintaining the activity of the functions, 677, 880 ; produces 

 all the mechanical, chemical, and vital operations of nature, 

 passim; is every where, and does every thing, 858. 



CAPILLARY attraction, its universality, 254 ; theory of Newton, 

 255 ; experiments of Hawkesbee, 256 ; theories of Young and 

 Professor Sang, 256; of Laplace, 257 ; a modification of co- 

 hesion and chemical affinity, 258, 261 ; experiments of Sir 

 David Brewster, 258, 264 ; of Link, 259 ; error of Mr. Challis, 

 259 ; illustrated by a burning candle, 262 ; a modification of 

 endosmose and exosmose, 265 ; difference between that of living 

 and dead matter, 265, 622 ; aggregate force of, 267. 



CARBON, the basis of all organic matter, 79 ; quantity of caloric 

 its combustion affords, 84-5 ; quantity of exhaled from the 

 lungs by respiration, 557, 896. 



CARLYLE, Thomas, on the misery of great men, 1004. 



CATARRH, theory of, 792-4. 



CATLIN, George, on the Great Spirit of the Mandans, 743 ; on 

 the complexion of the Mandan women, 752. 



CAUSE, the essential attributes of, 17 ; the Great First, how re- 

 presented in the Old and New Testaments, 462, 858 ; views 

 of the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, 469, 482 ; of 

 other ancient nations, 737, 743, 853, 858 ; of several dis- 

 tinguished modern Divines, 859, note. 



