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BLO 



INDEX. 



BOH 



Bladder, account of the preceding case, viii. 241, . . Salien 



— observations respecting the above stone, viii. 24-2, Sloane 



— a shuttle spire extracted from the, ix. 83, ... . Arderon 



— extirpation of a tumour from the inside of, x. 32, Warner 



— on fungous excrescences of the, x. 214, Le Cat 



— see Stone, Urine. 



— for bladders of fish, see Fish. 



Blagden, Charles, m. d., on the power of the body to resist 

 heat, xiii. 604, 695 



— heat of the water of the gulf-stream, xv. 115 



— effects of lightning at Heckingham, xv. 306 



— history of experts, on mercurial congelation, xv. 431 



— account of meteors, with observ. on their nature, xv. 520 



— on ancient inks, and on recovering the legibility of decayed 



writings, xvi. 351 



— on cooling of water below the freezing point, xvi. 409 



— on lowering the point of congelation, xvi. 459 



— best method of proportioning the excise on spirituous li- 



quors, xvi. 675, xvii. 263 



— on the tides at Naples, xvii. 318 



Blair, John, l. l. d., agitation of the waters near Beading, 



1755, x. 651 

 Blair, Pat., m.d., natural history and anatomy of the ele- 

 phant^. 557, vi. 382 



— of asbestos found in Scotland, v. 67 1 



— dissection of an emaciated child, vi. 307 



— organ of hearing of an elephant, vi. 382 



— of a boy living 3 years without food, vi. 459 



— discovery of the virtues of plants from their structure, vi. 



459 



— observations of the generation of plants, vi. 534 

 Blake, Francis, biographical notice of, x. 1 87, Note 



— best proportions of steam-engine cylinders, ibid 



— reduction of spherical trigonometry to plane, x. 255 



— on the greatest effect of engines, xi. 317 



Blake, John, lunar eclipse at Canton, 1772, xiii. 493 

 Bland, Robert, m.d., calculation of the number of acci- 

 dents attendant on parturition ; proportion of male and 

 female children born ; of twins, monsters, &c. xv. 118 



— table of the chance of life from infancy to 26 years, xv. 



122 



of the natives of London compared with its actual 



inhabitants, xv. 123 



Blane, Gilbert, m. d., account of the nardus Indica, xvi. 658 



Blane, Win., Esq., on the production of borax, xvi. 282 



Blasius, Gerard, biographical notice ef, i. 148, .... Note 



Blindness, see Vision, Eye. 



Bliss, Nathaniel, transit of Venus, June I76l, at Green- 

 wich, xi. 552 



general deduction from the different observations of the 



same transit, xi. 564 



— observ. of a solar eclipse at Oxford, 1764, xii. 115 

 Blister, operation- of, in the cure of fever, iv. 378. 



Cockburn 



— cases of the good effects of, in coughs, xi. 220, Whytt 

 Blizard, William, new method of treating the fistula lachry- 



malis, xiv. 679 

 Blon, James Christopher le, principles of printing in imi- 

 tation of painting, vii. 477 



Blondeau, paintings found at Herculaneum, ix. 620 



Blondel, Francis, biographical account of, ii. 274, . . Note 



— proceedings of the Royal Academy at Paris, iv. 651 

 Blood, of a milky appearance, i. 38, 41 : the same ac- 

 counted for, Note, i. 38 j another instance of, i. 50 



— on the serum of, i. 237, Behm 



motion and colour of, i. 330, 6l2, Lower 



— on the accension of the, i. 433, Willis 



Blood, microscopical observ on, ii. 149, 222, Leuwenhoek 



— natural history of human blood, ii. 684, Boyle 



— component parts of, ii. 685, Note 



— periodical discharge of, from the finger, iii. 156 



— defence of Harvey against F. Paul, iii. 195, Ent 



— circulation of, in the lacerta aquatica, iii. 238, Molyneux 



— quantity in men; celerity of circulation, iii. 417, Moulen 



— effect of the air on the colour of, iii. 581, Slare 



— experiments to ascertain the constituent parts of, iv. 



283, Vieussens 



— remarks on Vieussen's experiments, iv. 503, . . Lancisi 



— on the circulation of, in tadpoles, iv. 464, Leuwenhoek 



— of the quantity in the human body, iv. 570 .... Lister 



— remarks and exp. on the circulation of, iv. 680, Cowper 



— observations of the circulation of, in fishes, v. 460, 



Leuwenhoek 

 eels, v. 531, Same 



— on the force of the motion of, vii. 346, Jurin 



— specific gravity of human, vi. 415, Jurin 



— of a person dead of the plague, experiments with, vi. 



585, Couzier 



— magnitude of the globules of vi. 660, 677 , Leuwenhoek 



— effect of the lungs upon, vii. 301 Nicholls 



— vomiting of, cured by cold drink, vii. 484, Michellotti 



— circulation of, through the bones, viii. 79> • • Belchier 



— of a white liquor separated from, ibid Stuart 



— circulation of, in a water-newt's tail, viii. 501, Baker 



— constant emission of, in coitu, viii. 620, . . Schlichting 



— microscopical observations of, xii. 245, Stiles 



— of the changes which it undergoes when extravasated 



into the bladder and mixed with urine, xviii. 65, 



Home 



— observ. and exper. on the colour of, xviii. 228, Wells, 



— See Chyle, Haemorrhage, Styptic. 



Blood, (injection of medicated liquors,) see Injection. 



Blood, (Transfusion of,) see Transfusion. 



Blue, Prussian, method of preparing, vii. 4, . . Woodward 



— first discovery of, ibid Note 



— observations and experiments on, vii. 6, Brown 



Blumenbach, John Frederick, M. D., examination of some 



mummies in London, xvii. 392 

 Bobart, Jacob, effects of severe frost on trees, &c. iii. 89 

 Bocone, Paulo, biographical notice of, iii. 6l3, ....Note 



— natural curiosities presented to R. S. ii. 1 16 



Body, (Human) ©n its parenchymatous parts, i. 119, 



King 



— height of at morning and night, vii. 24, Wasse 



— cause of the above difference, vii. 25, Beckett 



— an undecayed body found in a copper mine, vii. 41, Leyel 



— undecayed bodies in peat moss, vii 666, Balguy 



— an undecayed body in a morass, ix. 364, Stovin 



— buried 80 years, undecayed, x. 202, Huxham and Tripe 



■ more than 200 years, undecayed, xiii. 356, Huxham 



( — instance of the combustibility in subjects addicted to 



spirituous liquors, xiii. 334, Wilmer 



— an undecayed body at St. Edmund's Bury, xiii. 356, 



Collignon 



— see Dissection. 



Boerhaave, Herman, biographical account of, v. 556, Note 



— chemical experiments on quicksilver, vii. 6l9> viii. 93 

 Bogs, of Ireland, account of, iii. 142, King 



— of a moving bog in Limerick, 1697, iv. 206 



— another account of the same, ibid Molyneux 



— account of, in Ireland, v. 636, Sloane 



— extract from Leland respecting, v. 639 



Bohemia, geological account of, ix. 688, Mounsey 



I Bolognian Bottles, of the breaking of, ix. 102, Bruni 



