ANALYTICAL INDEX* 



ESQUIMAUX, their organization, 712; and great voracity, 713, 

 889, 992. 



ESSENCE, igneous, origin of the word, 2. 



ESSENES, their vegetable regimen, 889. 



EUROPE, the superiority of its inhabitants, 705 ; mean temperature 

 of in different latitudes, 706. 



EVAPORATION, daily amount of, throughout the earth, 19, note ; 

 quantity of at different temperatures, 288 ; and in different 

 latitudes, 295. 



EVIL, origin of, 478, 479, note. 



EXERCISE augments respiration, 876 ; always attended with an 

 expenditure of the vital heat and substance of the body, 880, 

 881 ; how it diminishes vital cohesion, 880, 881, note ; how it 

 creates the necessity for sleep, 883 ; views of Edward Johnson 

 on, 883, 884, note ; pathological effects of, 885, 886. 



EXPERIMENTS, difference between those of nature and of an arti- 

 ficial laboratory, 284. 



FABRONI, on the chemical origin of Galvanic electricity, 376. 



FARADAY, his various definitions of electricity, Preface, viii ; con- 

 denses some of the permanent gases, 112 to 121 ; on a defla- 

 grating composition, 134 ; his theory of atmospheric electricity, 

 370, note ; of voltaic electricity, 394 ; miraculous results of 

 his electrical experiments, 447 ; his thoughts on the vital prin- 

 ciple, 868. 



FARR, Mr. on the annual mortality of different countries, 761 ; 

 of England and Wales, 784, 787 ; on the greater mortality 

 from apoplexy, paralysis, and other diseases, in winter than 

 summer, 787, 1061 ; on the mortality from phthisis in 

 England and Wales, 800 ; and its greater prevalence among 

 females than males, 800 ; on the plagues of London, 808. 



FEVER, a key to the whole theory of, 683, 684 ; why it depends 

 on a derangement of the formative process, 684 ; is most fatal 

 in hot climates and seasons, 780, 803, 819; why different in 

 central Africa, Egypt, the East and West Indies, 811; general 

 theory of, 1033; an essential condition of all constitutional 

 maladies, 1033; nature of hitherto unknown, 1034; hypothesis 

 of Hoffman and Cullen, 1035, note ; of Dr. Southwood Smith, 

 1035; of Bright and Addison, 1036; and of Dr. Tweedie, 

 1036; remote, exciting, and proximate causes of, 1037; 

 always ushered in by a loss of vital heat, 1038 ; respiration di- 

 minished during the chill, 1039 ; when, and why reaction does 

 not take place, 1040; state of the circulation during the chill, 

 1040, 1041 ; proximate cause of the shuddering, small pulse, 

 and other symptoms of the cold stage, 1042, 1043 ; why there 

 is an accumulation of bile, 1043; rationale of the hot stage, 



