ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



SOCRATES, on the danger of prying into the mysteries of Nature, 

 468. 



SOLUTION, vast importance of, 225 ; theory of, 228 ; of rocks in 

 hot springs, 229, 231, 237; Lardner on, 237; essential to 

 chemical action, 240; promoted by caloric, 244; immense 

 aggregate force of, 245. 



SPALLANZANI, on the oxygen consumed by a caterpiller, 680; on 

 the slow digestion of serpents, 578 ; on coagulation of the 

 blood, 646 ; and the absorption of nitrogen during respiration, 

 912. 



SPASMS, imperfect knowledge of, 1012 ; theories of Boerhaave and 

 Bichat, 1012; of Billing, M. Hall, and Liebeg, 1013; proxi- 

 mate cause of, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017; predisposing 

 and exciting causes of, 1021, 1023 ; state of the circulation in, 

 1024 ; Abernethy's case of tetanus, 1025 ; indications of treat- 

 ment, 1025. 



STAHL, on Phlogiston, 214 ; regards it as the cause of heat, 214 ; 

 on the Anima, 584. 



STIMULANTS, their mode of operation, 984. 



SULTZER, his experiments, 371. 



STOICS, their views of the organizing principle, 481. 



SUN, ancient titles and worship of, 106, 738 to 743, 855-56. 



SYDENHAM, on the happiness of discovering a certain method of 

 curing disease, 1033; on the curative powers of nature, 1066; 

 on the duty of assisting mankind, however ungrateful for it, 

 1099. 



TABLES, representing the distance, times, velocities, and diameters 

 of the heavenly bodies, 32 ; the atomic weights of bodies, 51, 

 52 ; specific gravity of gases, 60 ; contraction and expansion 

 of gases, 63 ; specific heat of atoms, 82 ; the quantities of ca- 

 loric evolved by combustion, 84, 85 ; the refractive power of 

 gases, 88 ; of liquids and solids, 91 ; the atomic composition, 

 specific gravity, and boiling points of various liquids, 145, 146 ; 

 relative quantities of rain in different latitudes, 295 ; chemical 

 composition of foods, 891 ; mortality of British troops in dif- 

 ferent parts of the world, 780 ; of England and Wales, 785, 

 787 ; proportions of nitrogen in different species of food, 916 ; 

 the composition of milk, 926 ; productive powers of the soil, 

 930; temperature of the body in different diseases, 1044; 

 mortality of hot climates, 771 ; of mortality in Europe, 761 ; 

 temperature of different animals, 564, 567 ; of the chemical 

 composition of arterial and venous blood, 544 ; analyses of the 

 blood, 684. 



TARTARS, stature and muscular strength of, 712. 



TAYLOR, Isaac, on the cause of animal motion, 490, note. 



