ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



INDIANS, of North America, stature of, 722 ; complexion of, 

 752. 



INFANTS, average mortality of, in Europe, 767 ; augmented by 

 cold, 767, 768 ; nearly all are born with a sound organization, 

 768. 



INFLAMMATION, various theories of, 1081, 1082; a local fever, 

 and the latter a general inflammation, 1081, 1082; experi- 

 ments of Dr. Philip on, 1083 ; is always attended with di- 

 minished circulation in the capillaries affected, 1084 ; symptoms 

 of, 1086; explanation of, 1087, 1088; of morbid sympathy, 

 1089, 1091 ; theory of metastasis, 1091, 1092, 1093; ther- 

 motic treatment of, 1094, 1095, 1096; modus operandi of 

 blisters, 1096; leading indications of treatment, 1097. 



INFLUENZA, theory of, 795. 



INSTINCT, theory of, 582, 608. 



INSECTS, temperature of, 566, 581; quantities of oxygen they 

 consume, 580 ; complexity of their structure, 581 ; acuteness 

 of their senses, and of their sagacity, 582, 583. 



IRELAND, the uniformity and excellence of its climate, 775. 



IRISH, their stature, weight, and strength, 722, 723, note ; their 

 fecundity, 775. 



IRRITABILITY, experiments on, by Haller, Fontana, and Philip, 

 588. 



ISOMERISM, theory of, 97. 



ISOMORPHISM, Mitscherlich's theory of, 93. 



JANNECHEN, Dr. on epidemic cholera at Moscow, 814. 



JAPANESE, stature, 723. 



JEHOVAH, primitive physical meaning of the word, 2, 740. 



JEWS, black in Abyssina and southern India, 755, 756. 



JOB, on the music of the stars, 472, note ; on the breath of the 

 Almighty, 484. 



JOHNSON, Dr. James, on diseases of hot climates, 771 ; on mor- 

 tality from diseases of the respiratory organs, 781 ; on the 

 sudden and fatal effects of exposure to animal effluvia, 825, 

 note ; on the causes of nervous maladies, 952, 953 ; his views 

 of nervous energy, 955; prescribes mercurial salivation in 

 fever, 979, note ; on the excessive and ignorant employment 

 of drugs, 983, note ; on the proximate cause of fever, 1034, 

 note. 



JOHNSON, Edward, refers all vital energy to nervous influence, 

 594 ; on the first cause of life, 595 ; his views of exercise, 

 883, 884; and of sleep, 941. 



JOHNSTON, Professor, on Dimorphism, 96. 



JONES, Rev. W. his theory of cohesion, 166, note ; on the identity 

 of heat and electricity, 285. 



