ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



MORGAN, Sir Charles, on respiration and animal heat, 537 ; on 

 the origin and nature of heat, 537 ; on the conversion of 

 arterial into venous blood, 662 ; on the expenditure of caloric 

 in supporting life in cold climates, 716; on the food of dif- 

 ferent climates, 716; his views of sympathy, 1089. 



MORGAN, Mr. J. on our ignorance of tetanus, 1012; on the" 

 exciting causes of tetanus, 1022. 



MORTALITY, annual aggregate of Europe, 767; ratio per 1000 

 under 5 years 767 ; greatest among infants during winter, 

 767, 768 ; of tropical climates, 771,773,780; at Lima, 772 ; 

 in central Africa, 773; In Iceland, 775; augmented by an 

 habitually wicked life, 776 ; from diseases of the respiratory 

 organs in England and Wales, 785 ; in English work houses, 

 infirmaries, and hospitals, 778 ; greatest in winter from all 

 diseases in Britain, 787 ; throughout Europe, 803. 



MORTON, Dr. his Crania Americana, 724, 725. 



MORVEAU, Guyton, his views of cohesion and chemical affinity, 

 167. 



MOSCHUS, his theory of atoms, 46, 484. 



MOSES, on the vitality of the blood, 484 ; on the manner in which 

 life is obtained, 541 ; his laws of diet, 726. 



MOTION, opinion of Bacon and Davy, that it is identical with 

 heat, 3 ; definition of, 8 ; opinion of Rumford that heat is 

 motion, 9 ;* laws of, 13, 14 ; all the phenomena of nature re- 

 solvable into, 16 ; animal, the cause of, 492, 586 ; et multis 

 aliis locis. 



MOTION, planetary, 30, 31 ; Kepler's third law of, 34; Newton's 

 first law of, 34 ; does not apply to the planetary revolutions, 

 37 ; primary origin of in the sun, 41 ; of satellites, 42 ; 

 Milton on planetary, 45. 



MOUNTAINS, relative heights of, in different latitudes, 22 ; in 

 America, 23 ; in the old world, 24, 25 ; compared with the 

 height of plateaus, 25 ; of the planet Venus, 26 ; influence of 

 on climate, 969, note. 



MOVER, prime, essential to all the operations of nature, 16. 



MULDER, on organic equivalents, 636. 



MULLER, Dr. J. on the vital principle, 508 ; on the cause of 

 organic combinations, 525 ; on the source of animal heat, 

 536 ; on the colour of arterial blood, 540 ; on the respiration 

 of frogs in azotic gases, 547 ; on the object of respiration, 

 550 ; maintains that oxygen excites the tissues, 639 ; main- 

 tains that carbonic acid is formed in the systemic capilla- 

 ries, 549; regards the ganglionic nerves as the centres 

 of organic life, 591 ; on sensitive and motor nerves, 609 ; on 

 the modus operandi of poisons, 968 ; and their rapid diffusion 

 throughout the system, 970. 



