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INDEX. 



STO 



Stature, height of the body at morning and night, vii.24,Wasse 



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



Steam, elasticity of, viii. 303, . . . . Clayton 



— experiments on the force of, viii. 518,. Payne 



conveyed in pipes, rooms warmed by, ix. 125, .... Cook 



proportion of increased force with increase of heat, xviii. 



173, Rumford} ibid, Note 



— see Vapour. 



Steam-engine, best proportions for cylinders of, x. 187,Blake 

 description of M. de Meuron's, x. 252, Smeaton 



— to increase the quantity of steam, xi. 81, 157, Fitzgerald 

 Steatomatous tumour, see Tumour. 



Stcdman, John, m. d„ observations with the thermometer} 

 effects of heat on the human body, x. 126' 



— effects of white [black] henbane, x. 185 



— of triangles in and about circles, xiii. 651 



— of strength of wind necessary for differ, machines, xiv.198 

 Steel, method of converting iron into, iii. 525, Note 



— modern and ancient method of tempering, iii. 570, Lister 



— process of making in Sweden, iii. 572, Note 



— on the tempering of, ix. 679, Le Cat 



— on the salt of, taken internally, xi. 229, Wright 



— on the welding of cast- steel, xvii. 572 Frankland 



— chemical examination of some ancient steel arms, xviii. 



58, Pearson 



Steel-yard balance, for curing deformities, viii. 549, Sheldrake 

 Steele, J., a musical instrument from the South seas, xiii. 59 1 



— of the nose flute of Otaheite, ibid 



Steigerthall, J. George, m. d., of a cramp and fistula, vi. 479 



— of a foetus 46 years in the belly, vi. 500 



— of an extraordinary nsevus maternus, vii. 100 



— of the unicorn fish [monodon monoceros] viii. 160 

 Stehlin, M. de, a new map of the northern Archipelago, and 



a specimen of native iron from Siberia, xiii. 569 

 Stellar fish, see Star Fish. 

 Steno, Nicholas, biographical account of, i. 225, .... Note 



— account of an Indian salamander, i. 141 



— dissection of a shark, i. 225 ; of a dog-fish, ibid 



— discourse on the anatomy of the brain, i. 386 

 Stenography, see Shorthand. 



Stephens, John, of a fire issuing from the earth in Dorset- 

 shire ; and cause of subterraneous fires, xi. 537 

 Stephens, William, latitude of Madras, xiv. 512 

 Steplin, J., agitation of the waters in Bohemia, 1755, x. 655 

 Sternum, see Breast. 



Stevenson, William, total lunar eclipse at Barbadoes, vii. 435 

 Steward, Rev. Thomas, virtue of the stellaria for the bite of 



a mad dog, viii. 26'9 

 Stewart, John, account of the kingdom of Thibet, xiv. 188 

 Stiles, Sir F. H, Eyles, on the music of the ancients, xi. 485 



— of a specimen of the apis willughbiella, xi. 496 



— eruption of Vesuvius, Dec, 1760, xi. 521, 522 



— of Torre's highly magnifying microscopes, xii. 245 

 Stirling, James, the Newtonian differential method, vi. 428 



— figure of the earth, and variation of gravity, viii. 26 



— machine to blow fire by the fall of water, ix. 109 



— a remarkable darkness at Detroit, in America, xi. 691 

 Stocke, Leonard, m. d., fall of dew in Zealand ; figures of 



snow-flakes, viii. 577 

 Stomach, on the organs of rumination, iii. 243, Peyer 



— and guts, on the motion of, iv. 300, Pitt 



— two cases of wounds in, vi. 578, Field 



— case of an imposthumation, vi. 579, Atkinson 



— case of a perforation in, vii. 212, Rawlinson 



— of an ox, anatomical observations on, vii. 264, .... Price 



— divided by a stricture, vii. 529, Amyand 



— coats of, become cartilaginous, ix. 633, Murdock 



— imposthumation in a girl's stomach, x. 29, Layard 



Stone, (nat. hist.) found in the head of a serpent, a remedy 

 for its bite, i. 38, Philabert 



— a Swedish, containing sulphur, vitriol, alum, &c, i. 139 



— of stone quarries in Hungary, i. 456, Brown 



— a remarkable stone quarry near Maestricht, i. 552 



— of several sorts for building, ii. 59 



— lapides judaici found in England, ii. 181 



— disease caused by swallowing stones, iv. 381, 632, Holt 



— fallen from the sky, a summary account of various in- 



stances ; ideas of philosophers respecting} specific 

 gravity, &c. vi. 100, Note 



— instance of the same in Jamaica, vi. 368, Barham 



— skeleton of an animal impressed on, vi. 398, . . . Stukely 



— regularly formed stones, atBagneris, ix. 12, Montesquieu 



— a curious spheroidal stone, x. 77, Piatt 



x. 107, Mortimer 



— with the impression of a fish, at Antigua, x. 628„ Pond 



— account of a large stone at the Cape, xiv. 303, Anderson 



— stones from the sky after an erup. of Vesuvius, xvii. 503 



Hamilton 



— singular balls of lime-stone found in cutting the Hud- 



dersfield Canal, xviii. 30, Outram 



— see Fossils, Petrifaction, Basaltes. 



Stones, (precious,) used by the ancients for engraving on, 

 ix. 343, Dingley 



— see them under their particular names 



Stone (calculus) account of an operation for, i. 120, Beale 



— great number of stones from one bladder, i. 168, Fairfax 



— of calculi in the kidney j and in the lungs, i. 595, Kirkby 



— cut from under the tongue, i. 71 6, Lister 



— in the bladder of a dog, i. 732 



— fastened to the back-bone of a horse, ibid 



— of 38 stones in a bladder, ii. 115 



— of gold-coloured stones in a bladder, ii. 125, . . Johnston 



— operation of cutting, ii. 164, Drelincourt 



— large human calculi, ii. 383, Garden 



— remarkable case of calculous concretions voided by 



vomit and stool, ii. 510, iii. 298, Konig 



— extraordinary calculus in a horse, ii. 544; and 545, Note 



— analysis of the human calculus, iii. 18, 316, 318, Slare 



— account of two calculi, iii. 20 



— concretion on a bodkin in a boy's bladder, iii. 122, Lister 



— voided by stool, iii. 146, Threapland 



— a very large one from the bladder, iii. 167 



— resembling a shell, taken from the kidney, iii. 168, Peirce 



— stones voided per penem, iii. 316, Cole 



— voided by urine, iii. 249, Walli* 



— analysis of calculous concretions, iii. 299, Konig 



modern analysis of, iii. 300, Note} examination of, 316, 



318, Slare 



— very large one voided per urethram, iii. 552, Mullineux 



— in the left kidney, case of, iii. 6l2 Wittie 



— a very large one from a woman's bladder, iii. 633, Wood 



— in the gall-bladder of a woman, iii. 637 



— two cut from the uretha, iv. 86, Bernard 



— inside, adher. to one outside the bladder, iv. 109, Preston 



— successfully cut from the kidney, iv. 116 



— found in the brain, iv. l65, Tyson 



— to extract from the blad. of a female, iv. 227, Molyneux 



— stones voided by a boy, iv. 295, Sibbald 



— at the root of the tongue, iv. 340, Bonavert 



— in the stomach, kidney and gall-bladder, iv. 357, Clark 



— ways of cutting for, iv. 358, Bussiere 



— covered with hair, cut from the bladder, ir. 524, Wallace 



— cut from a child with a flint in it, iv. 525, .... Garden 

 of stones taken from the human body, iv. 717, . • Yonge 



— voided per urethram, v 1 82, Lhwyd 



I — instance of very large stones, v. 270, Thoresby 



