ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



an error of J. Hunter, 655 ; on the state of the blood in inflam- 

 mation, 657 ; his experiments on leeches, 837 ; on the absorp- 

 tion of nitrogen during respiration, 918. 



DELAROCHE, and Berger, on the influence of hot media on the 

 temperature of animals, 845. 



DEMOCRITUS, his theory of atoms, 46 ; on the nature of heat and 

 of the soul, 470 ; on the source of animal heat, 854, note ; his 

 views of tetanus, 1026. 



DE Luc, on the light of a vacuum, 101 ; on the origin of at- 

 mospheric electricity, 301. 



DENIS, M. his analyses of the blood, 631, 635 ; on the radical 

 identity of fibrin and albumen, 636. 



DE SAUSSURE, obtains electricity from aqueous vapour, 307-9 ; 

 on positive and negative electricity, 424 ; on the effect of 

 breathing the rarefied air of high mountains, 866. 



DESCARTES, the author of what is called the law of inertia, 34 ; 

 on the primitive state of the earth, 406 ; on the animal spirits, 

 491. 



DE STAEL, Madame, on the poisonous influence of grief, 959. 



DETONATION, theory of, 124 ; referred by Dr. Hare to electricity, 

 209. 



DEW, theory of, 355 ; experiments of Dr. Wells on, 356. 



DEW POINT, theory of, 291. 



DIET, summary of corollaries concerning, 935-37. 



DIETRICH, Dr. on the mercurial disease, 978, note. 



DIEFFENBACH, Dr. on the cause of influenza, 795. 



DIGESTION, experiments of Spallanzani and Dr. Beamonton, 511 ; 

 in warm and cold blooded animals, 570-78 ; theories of, 624- 

 25; view of Hippocrates, 626; of Boerhaave, 626 ; independent 

 of nervous influence, 627. 



DIMORPHISM, theory of, 94 ; examples of, 95, 96. 



DIODORUS, on the origin of European nations, 733 ; on the 

 Egyptian Jove, 740. 



DISEASE, cannot exist in a sound state of the blood, 687 ; influ- 

 ence of climate on, 779 ; of the respiratory organs where most 

 prevalent, 782-88 ; generally rare in hot climates, 782, 790 ; 

 definition of, 1033; unity of, 1052; how to prevent, 1077; 

 how to cure, 1079-80. 



DESPRETZ, M. on the elastic force of gaseous bodies, 69; his ex- 

 periments on combustion, 85 ; on animal heat, 535 ; on the 

 ratio of oxygen expired with carbon, 539 ; on the sources of 

 animal heat, 558-59. 



DIURETICS, how their operation is modified by temperature, 981. 



DONNE, Dr. his observations on the temperature and pulse in 

 disease, 1044-5. 



DRINKS, alcoholic, their modus operandi, 931-34. 



