ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



the waste of the body, 882 ; its influence in generating cu- 

 taneous diseases, 1069. 



COLLADON, his experiments on sound, 18. 



COLLINS, on the treatment of slaves in the West Indies, 75. 



COLMAN, Mr. on the cause of canine madness, 1028. 



COMBE, Dr. Andrew, his views of nervous influence, 955. 



COMBUSTION, theory of Beccher and Stahl, 214 ; of Lavoisier, 

 215; living, the perfection of, 631, 674. 



CONDUCTION, theory of, 188, 195, inclusive. 



CONOLLY, Dr. his prediction, 779, (verified?) 



CONTRACTILITY, a property of all living tissues, 590, therefore 

 independent of nervous matter, 592 ; referred to nervous in- 

 fluence by hosts of physiologists, 592, 594; how long, and 

 why, it continues after death, 660-1. 



CONVULSIONS, theory of, 605-6, 1012; views of Billing, M. 

 Hall, and Liebig, 1013 ; proximate cause of, 1013-16 ; excit- 

 ing causes of in infants, 1017 ; in hysteria, 1018 ; in epilepsy, 

 1019 ; rationale of, 1020 ; predisposing and exciting causes of, 

 1021-23; cardinal symptoms, the same in all cases, 1023; 

 state of the blood in tetanus, 1024; proximate cause and 

 general treatment of, 1024. 



COOKING, the initiatory process of digestion, 511 ; renders food 

 more easy of digestion, 931. 



COOPER, Sir Astley, his experiments on a kitten, 852. 



COPERNICUS, revives the Pythagorean solar system, 33. 



COPLAND, Dr., on the annual mortality in Russia, 762. 



CORDIER, M. on the internal heat of the earth, 407. 



CORNARO, his daily allowance of nourishment, 894, note. 



COULOMB, M. his theory of two electric fluids, 437-39. 



COUP DE SOLEIL, a species of apoplexy, and how produced, 

 1063. 



Cox, Mr. Ross, on the amount of animal food consumed by the 

 hunters of North America, 893. 



CRAWFORD, Dr. his experiments on combustion, 76 ; on the 

 blood of a dog placed in water at 45 degrees F. 554 ; on the 

 influence of external temperature on respiration, 709 ; on the 

 temperature and colour of the blood in heated air and water, 

 844 ; Dr. Adair, on the modus operandi of tonics, 987. 



CREEDS, vary with climates, 727, 888. 



CROSTHWAITE, Mr. on the height of clouds, 297. 



CRYSTALS, different forms of, 93, 94, 95 ; theory of their forma- 

 tion, 94 ; classification of, 94 ; their action on light, 95, note ; 

 inclination of their planes altered by caloric, 96. 



CULLEN, Dr. refers all physiological and pathological phenomena 

 to the nervous system, 494, 587 ; his theory of animal heat, 

 877 ; on the frequent bad effect of purging in intermittent 



