ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



1044; temperature of the body, 1044, note; increased action 

 of the heart explained, 1045 ; respiration increased, and why, 

 during the hot stage, 1045, 1046; state of the secretions, 

 1047; the sweating stage, 1048 ; origin of periodicity, 1048, 

 1049; all the varieties of, modifications of the same disease, 

 1051, 1052, 1053 ; why the paroxysm varies in duration, 1054 ; 

 why the cold and hot stages are inversely in duration, 1055, 

 1058; why the chill usually comes on in the morning, 1059; 

 and why there are morning remissions of, when continued, 

 1060; often brought on by cold without malaria, 1062, 1063, 

 1070, 1071 ; cannot exist while all the organs are supplied 

 with good blood, 1072; recapitulation of its theory, 1073, 

 1074 ; primary seat of, in all parts of the body, 1076 ; how 

 to prevent, 1077; and how to remove when formed, 1079, 

 1080. 



FINLAYSON, Mr. on the annual mortality of England and Wales, 

 763. 



FIRE, elementary, the most refined and spiritual of all the 

 elements, 1 ; the universal adoration of by the ancients, 742 ; 

 regarded by the North American Indians as the Great Spirit, 

 743 ; is everywhere, and does everything, 852 ; the Greek, 

 133. 



FISHES, temperature of, 566 ; their imperfect organization, 580. 



FLOURENS, his vivisextions of the brain of fowls, 599, note. 



FLUIDS, theoiy of their cohesion and volatility, 137, 152, inclusive ; 

 essential to all living action, 520, 521. 



FCETUS, the mode in which it is nourished, 640. 



FOGS, theory of their formation, 358. 



FONTANA, on the action of the heart, 588. 



FOOD, the object of, 887 ; how dependent on climate, 888, 889 ; 

 proportion of fat in animal, 889, 890 ; and of water, 889, 890 ; 

 chemical composition of animal and vegetable, 891 ; carbon and 

 hydrogen of, 892, 894 ; ratio of nitrogen in different species 

 of, 916, 917 ; quantities of consumed by carnivora, 918, 919; 

 nutritive properties of non nitrogenized, 920, 923 ; the best, 

 an imitation of milk, 925 ; influence of, on the physical 

 energy and disposition of animals, 927 ; animal, why forbidden 

 by the laws of Moses, 927 ; its influence on the moral character 

 of nations, 927 ; views of Pythagoras, Shelly, and Lambe, 927 ; 

 comparative abundance and cheapness of vegetable and animal, 

 928 ; consequences of taking too much, 931 ; more digestible 

 when cooked than raw, 931. 



FORBES, Professor, on superfluous decimals, 59 ; on atmospheric 

 electricity, 288; on hail storms, 339; his vital statistics, 

 723. 



FORCE, the cause of, expended in producing motion, 35, 877. 



