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Douglas, James, m. d., enlargement of the left ventricle 

 of the heart, vi. 181 



— observations on the glands of the spleen, vi. 26*2 

 fracture of the upper part of the thigh-bone, ibid 



— description of the flamingo or phcenicopterus, vi. 268 



— a method of cutting for the stone, vi. 580 



— description of the crocus autumnalis sativus, vi. 678 



— two methods of operating in cases of stone, vii. 200 



— culture and management of saffron, vii. 278 



— of the different sorts of ipecacuanha, vii. 356* 



— successful use of bark in mortifications, vii. 572 

 Douglas, Robert, observations of magnetic variation, xiii. 729 

 Douglas, Sylvester, a blue substance in peat-moss, xii. 547 



— of Tokay and other Hungarian wines, xiii. 451 



Dove, John, large shower of pumice stones at sea, viii. 234 



— account of the comet of February, 1732, vii. 565 

 Doz, Vincent, Transit of Venus, 1769, at California, xiii. 91 

 Dragon fly, see Libella. 



Drake, Francis, situation of the ancient Delgovitia, ix. 354 



— bones of a foetus discharged near the navel, ix. 456 

 Drake, J., m.d. influence of respiration on the heart's mo- 

 tion, iv. 698 



Drawing, outlines in perspective, an instrument for, i. 325, 



Wren 



— machine for, or prosographic parallelogram, ii. 84, Sinclair 

 Dream, recovery of speech by fright in a dream, ix. 465, 



Squire 

 Drelincourt, Charles, m. r>., biograph. notice, iii. 141, Note 



— anatomical experiments, ibid 



Drills, on the magnetism of, iv. 332, Ballard 



Drink, see Food. 



Dromedary, anatomical description of the, i. 372 



Dropsy, acquired by a person being too much in the air, i. 49 



— remarkable case of, ii. 152, . » Tulpius 



— in the ovarium, ii. 437, Sampson 



— in the tunics of the uterus, iii. 607, Turner 



— reflections on the causes of, iv. 114, Preston 



— in the chest, strange symptom of, iv. 131 Doudy 



— in the ovarium, iv. 375, Sloane 



— dissection of a dropsical body, v. 219, Lafage 



— in the ovarium, v. 31 8, Douglas 



— distention of the gall bladder, v. 667 , Yonge 



— in the ovarium, cure of, vii. 2, Houstoun 



— case of a woman tapped 57 times, vii. 533, Belchier 



■ 67 times, ibid, Note 



— a fever caught by tapping a dropsical corpse, viii. 338 



— account of an extraordinary,, viii. 607, Short 



— caused by the want of a kidney, ix. 292, Glass 



— cases o£ cures by sweet-oil, x. 566, Oliver 



— in the chest, successful operation for, xii. 358, Moreland 



— a remarkable case of, xiv. 481, Latham 



— in the ovarium, xv. 6*25 Martineau 



— see Tapping, Hydrocephalus. 



Drowning, cause of death by, iv. 270, Note 



— observations on drowned persons, v. 264, Becker 



— of a girl under water a quarter of an hour without being 



drowned, viii. 337 Green 



— a boy kept afloat on the sea half an hour, xi.72, Robertson 

 Dryander, Jonas, of the benjamin tree of Sumatra, xvi. 287 

 Dryness, of the year 1788, xvi. 529, Hutchinson 



— see Meteorological Observations. 

 Dublin, see Population. 



— arcbbp. of, manuring with sea shells in Ireland, v. 403 

 Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, ll. d., chesnut trees indigenous 



in England, xiii. 116 



— on the early cultivation of botany, in England, xiii. 383 

 Ducts, see Biliary Ducts, Thoracic Duct, Excretory Ducts. 



Dudley, Sir Matt, insects in the bark of elm and ash, v. 193 

 Dudley, Paul, sugar from the maple tree, vi. 458 



— poison-wood tree of New England, vi. 507 



— method of finding wild honey in New England, vi. 509 



— account of the moose deer in America, vi. 515 

 — ' falls of Niagara, vi. 574 



— of molasses from apples, vi. 6l8 



— on the degenerating of smelts, vi. 619 



— accouist of the rattle-snake, vi. 642 



— cure by sweating in hot turf; description of the sweat- 



ing rooms of the Indians, vii. 37 Dudley 



— on vegetation in New England, vii. 57 



— natural history of the whale, vii. 78 



— large stone taken out of a horse, vii. 187 



— of eardiquakes in New England, viii. 22 



Dufay, M., efficacy of olive oil for vipers' bites, viii. 267 

 Dugard, Rev. Samuel, an uncommon hemorrhage, ii. 169 

 Duillier, Facio, solar eclipse, 1706, Geneva, v. 296 

 Dumb, see Deaf and Dumb, Speech. 



Dunbar, of basaltic pillars at, xi. 533, Bp. of Ossory 



Dunmore Park, of a remarkable cavern at, xiii. 63, "Walker 

 Dunn, Samuel, transit of Venus over the sun, June, 1761, 

 xi. 555 



— cause of the apparent greater size of the Sun and Moon 

 near the horizon, xi. 6ll 



— observations of a solar eclipse 1762, xi. 667 



— appulse of the moon to Jupiter, Chelsea, 1762, xi. 685 



— defence of Mercator's chart from the censure of, xi.696, 



West 



— a meteor resembling a parhelion, xii. 39 



— solar eclipse 1764 observed at Brompton, xii. 114, 



— lunar eclipse 1764 observed at Brompton, xii. 1 14 



— transit of Venus 1761, 1769> xiii. 14 



Dunthorne, Rev. Rich., biograph. account of, ix. 669, Note 



— on the motion of the moon, ix. 318 



— on the moon's accelerated motion, ix. 669 



— account of a latin m. s., on comets, x. 209 



— tables of the motions of Jupiter's satellites, xi. 535 

 Dura Mater, cause of the motion of, v. 71* Ridley 



— present opinion of the cause of its motion, v. 73, . . Note 



— dissertation on, v. 6l 8, Pacchionus 



Dupont, Andrew Peter, descrip. of a doris radiata, xi. 625 

 Dupre, M., of the muscles which join the head and neck, 



iv. 368 



— of a deformed human skull, iv. 372 



Durant, J., a coal mine on fire ; a steam depositing a blue 

 sediment ^ large cavern in Weredale, ix. 254 



Durston, William, m. d., on an excessive swelling of the 

 breasts, i. 393, 402, 405 



— a monstrous birth, with anatomical observations, i. 531 



Dust, a shower of in Shetland, xi. 138, Mitchell 



— see Ashes. 



Dutton, Wm., a meteor seen, Oct. 1759, in Essex, xi. 395 

 Dwarf, compared with a child of 4 years, x. 53, . . Arderon 



— account of a dwarf, x. 209, Browning 



Dyer, Rev. Mr., effects of thunder and lightning in Corn- 

 wall, xi. 86 



Dyeing, of dyeing roots found at Hudson's Bay, xiii. 282, 



Forster 



— experiments on dyeing black, xiii. 493, Clegg 



— see Colours (Chemistry). 



Dymond, Joseph, transit of Venus, 1769. at Hudson's Bay, 

 xii. 682 



— meteorological observations at Hudson's Bay, 1 768-9, 



xiii. 32 

 Dynamics, experts, on the fall of bodies, v. 612, Hauksbee 

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