ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



HEIGHTS, of mountains and table lands, 22, 25; influence of on 

 temperature, 297. 



HEINEKIN, Dr. on the climate of Madeira, 789. 



HERACLITUS, his theory that all things are formed from fire, 

 106, note ; regarded fire as omniscient and divine, 469. 



HERDER, Godfrey, on the unity of the human race, 720 ; on the 

 blackness of a Portuguese colony in Africa, 755 ; on what the 

 art of the physician consists in, 1066. 



HERODOTUS, on the origin of European nations, 733. 



HEWSON, on the red corpuscles of the blood, 637, note ; on the 

 cause of coagulation, 646 ; on the changes blood undergoes in 

 disease, 655. 



HIGGINS, Godfrey, on the Ethiopia of ancient India, 732 ; on 

 the affinities of all written languages, 735 ; on the primitive 

 meaning of the word Yeye in Hebrew and Sanscrit, 740 ; on 

 an ancient Chinese history, 744 ; on pictorial representations 

 of the horse in Mexico before that animal was introduced there 

 from the old world, 745 ; supposed that all mankind were ori- 

 ginally black, 747. 



HIPPOCRATES, his views of a strong but invisible fire, 161 ; on 

 the cause of motion* and organization, 473 ; his partial know- 

 ledge of the circulation, 475 ; his humoral pathology, 476 ; 

 his theory of digestion, 625 ; on the temperature of the left 

 ventricle of the heart, 662 ; on the colour of arterial and 

 venous blood, 663, note ; on the seat of the mind, 663 ; on the 

 seven ages of man, 682 ; his theory of tubercular diseases, 

 788 ; his treatment of internal inflammations, 799 ; regards 

 heat as spirit, and describes its attributes, 854 ; on the source 

 of animal heat, 854, note ; on aliment and exercise, 875; on 

 black melancholy, 954 ; on the debilitating influence of strong 

 medicines, 982 ; on the soul and its seat in the blood, 986 ; on 

 the four cardinal humours, 986 ; and their influence on tem- 

 peraments, 987 ; on a case of tetanus caused by a surgical ope- 

 ration, 1022 ; his imperfect knowledge of fever, 1038 ; regards 

 bile as the cause of fever, 1049; his theory of periodicity, and 

 of critical days, 1049, 1050, note ; on coma and apoplexy, 

 1064; considered nature as the best physician, 1064; on the 

 curative powers of nature, 1050, note. 



HOFFMAN, his theory of the nervous fluid, 494, 584 ; his axiom 

 in regard to health, 983 ; his theory of fever, 1035, note. 



HOLLAND, Dr. C. his definition of life, 625; maintains that re- 

 spiration is increased by a high temperature, 717, note ; on 

 the influence of exercise on respiration, 877, note ; of tartar 

 emetic, 976 ; New, its climate and population, 702. 



HOMCEOPAHTY, its merits and demerits, $83, 984 ; a leading 

 doctrine of, 1021. 



