FAY 



INDEX. 



FIR 



41 



Eye,structure and action of the extern, muscles, xvii. 409, Same 



— nature and use of the muscles of, xvii. 453, 660, Home 



— structure of the eyes of birds, xvii. 557, Smith 



— on the morbid actions of the straight muscles and cornea, 



xviii. 74, Home 



— on the nature of the cornea, and its diseases, xviii. 82, Same 



— the gall offish efficaciousin diseases of, xviii. 86, .... Note 



— Mr. Soemmerings's discovery of an orifice in the retina, 



xviii. 326, Home 



— observations of an orifice in the retina, xviii. 327, . . Same 



— structure of the optic nerve, xviii. 431, Same 



-r- cause of the luminousness of the cat's eye, ibid, . . Same 



— see Vision, Sight, Cataract, Crystalline Humour. 

 Eye-lids, an uncommon palsy in, viii. 225, Cantwell 



Faba, St. Ignatii (ignatia amara) medic, virtues of, iv. 356, 



Joannes 



further particulars, ibid Camelli 



■ description of, iv. 442, Note 



Fabri, Honore, biographical notice of, i. 553, Note 



Fabritius, — m.d. of injecting medic, liquors into veins, i.205 



Face, a blackness brought on by disease, v. 522, .... Yonge 



Facio, J. Chr., solar eclipse, May 12, 1706, Geneva, v. 296 



Facio, Nic, on the solid of least resistance, vi. 48 



Fage, M. La, see Lafage 



Faget, M., experiments with the French styptic, x. 298 



Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel, biograph. account of, vii. i, Note 



— degrees of heat of boiling liquors, ibid 



— experiments of freezing in vacuo, vii. 22 



— specific gravities of various bodies, vii. 32 



— description of a new areometer, vii. 41 

 ■ ■■ barometer, vii. 54 



Fairchild, Th., experts, on the motion of sap in trees, vii. 36 

 Fairfax, N., swallowing of toads, spiders, &c, innoxious, i. 144 



— uncommonly large hail-stones, i. 168 



— many stones cut from one bladder, i. 168 



— dissection of a body dead of unusual diseases, 1, 199 



— two anatomical observations, 1. 200 



— peculiarities of nature in men and brutes, i. 200 



— on a bullet voided with the urine, i. 286 

 Fairy-circles, remarks on, ii. 225, Jessop 



— accounted for by Dr. Withering, ibid, Note 



Falkland islands, account of, xiv. 1 Clayton 



Fallopian tubes, see Generation. 



Fantoni, Pio, evolution of a certain mechanical curve, xii. 446 

 Farina, of blossoms, effect of the commixture of, ix. 169, 



599, 685, Cook 



ibid, Henchman 



— of the holly-hock & passion flower, ix. 230, 234,Badcock 

 yew tree, ix. 243, Same 



i— see Plants. 



Farley, James, efficacy of quassia in fevers, xii. 5l6 



Farr, Win., m. d., meteor, obs. at Plymouth, 1767, xii. 5^9 



— - meteorological register at Plymouth, 1768, xii. 6l0 



— meteorological journal at Bristol, 1774, xii. 6295 1775, 



xiv. 47: 1776, 179; 1778,593 

 Farringdon, Rev. W., description of the charr fish, x. 609 

 Fat, microsc. observ. on the particles of, vi. 5S3,Leuwenhoek 



— of an acid extracted from, xiv. 67 1, xv. 168, Crell 



— conversion of the flesh of a bird into, xvii. 192, . . Sneyd 



— conversion of animal muscle into, xvii. 389, 544, Gibbes 

 Fauquier, Wm., extraordinary hail-storm in Virginia, xi. 273 

 Fawkener, Wm., on the production of ambergris, xvii. 6 

 Fawler, John, cure of sinuous ulcers in the arm, v. 378 



Fay, M. Du, biographical account of, vii. 638, Note 



•r— electrical discoveries, ibid. 



Feet, of a boy turned inward when born, cured by sitting 



cross-legged, ix. 695, Milner 



Felton, Samuel, of a species of wasp of Jamaica, xii. 98 



— description of the cicada rhombea, xii. 99 



Ferguson, James, biographical account of, ix. 226, . . Note 



— phoenomena of the planet Venus, ibid. 



— improvement of the celestial globe, ix. 351 



— machine for exhibiting solar eclipses, x. 456 



— delineation of an expected transit of Venus, xi. 685 



— description of the lophius, xi. 717 



— projection of a solar eclipse, xii. 5 



— a new crane with four different powers, xii. 86 



— lunar eclipse, 1764, at Liverpool, xii. 113 



— solar eclipse, 1764, at Liverpool, ibid. 



— description of a new hygrometer, xii. 151 



— of the time in any number of lunations, &c. xii. 197 



— method of constructing sun dials, xii. 454 

 Ferguson, John, excision of part of the spleen, viii. 263 

 Fermat, M. De, character of, i. 8 



Fermentation, idea of the nature of, v. 491, Freind 



— of fermentations and solutions that may be called cold, iv. 



6l 1, Geoffroy 



— see Effervescence. 



Fern, on the seed and seed-vessels of, v. 197, Leuwenhoek 



— description of the seed of, viii. 505, Miles 



Fern, , m. d., of an extra-uterine foetus, iv. 365 



Ferner, Benedict, transit of Venus, 176l, xi. 562 



— transit of Venus, solar eclipse, 1769, Stockholm, xii. 671 

 Ferns and Leighlin, Bishop of, doctrine of sounds, iii. 5 

 Feroe, remarks on the Islands of, ii. 246 



Fevers, cause of the paroxysms of intermitting, iii. 509, 



Cole 



— nature and cure of, iv. 46, Pitcairn 



— use of cold wafer in, vii. 353, Cyrillus 



— disorder produced by checking the miliary fever, ix. 16, 



Camillis 



— of the jail-fever in Newgate, x. 318, Pringle 



— malignant, at Rouen, 1753-4, x. 567, Le Cat 



— instance of a remarkable recovery, xii. 551, Benvenuti 



— a periodical fever, and separation of the cuticle, xiii. 78, 



Latham 



— see Blister, Bark, Quassia. 



Fevry, Mon., of a monstrous double birth, vi. 66l 



Fibres, structure of the fibres of the intestines, ii.295,. . Cole 



— observations on the fibres of muscles, vi. 82, 502, 504, 



576, Leuwenhoek 



— experiments on the irritability of, x. 613, . . Brocklesby 

 Fidge, Wm., stone from the bladder of a dog, ix. 292 

 Field, Rev. Jam., two cases of wounds in the stomach, vi. 578 

 Fielding, R., m.d., extraction, of a bullet from the head, 



v. 489 

 Figures, cabalistic complications of, in India, iv. 540 



— Phenician numerals used at Sidon, xi. 291, .... Swinton 



— see Arabian Figures, Date. 



Filtering stone, of the Mexican, viii. 30, Vater 



Finch, four species of fringilla from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 



340, Forster 



Finlanders, some account of them, vii. 210, Kinck 



Fire, description of a water-bellows, i. 12 



— nature of combustion, ii. 146, Mayo 



— proposal for checking the progress of, ix. 498, . . Hales 



— of the perpetual fire in Persia, ix. 503, Mounsey 



— mediod of securing buildings from, xiv. 447, Earl Stnnhope 

 Fire (chemistry) produced by the contact of tin-foil with 



the salt of copper and nitrous acid, xii. 404, . . Higgins 



— increased weight of bodies by ignition, xiv. 97, Roebuck 



— see Effervescence. 



Fire (electricity) — see Electricity. 



