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Urine, expts. for finding a new passage for, i. 550, Hauton 



— suppression of, cured by acids, iv. 9> • • • Baynard 



— on the passage of drink and urine, iv. 653, .... Morin 



— of several solid bodies voided by, v. 521, Yonge 



— case of a boy who never made water, vi. 45, Richardson 



— case of the suppression of in a woman, vii. 528, Amyand 



— disch. of bloody urine in the small-pox, viii. 708, Dodd 

 — ■ case of a long suppression of, xi. 376, Dawson 



— remarkable case of suppression of, xi. 663, .... Lysons 



— cure of a suppression of, by puncturing the bladder by 



the anus, xiv. 113, Hamilton 



Urns, Roman urns near York, ii. 518, Lister 



— and monuments found in Ireland, vi. 63, Nevill 



— dug up in Norfolk, vi. 65, Le Neve 



Urtica Marina, see Actinia. 



Uterus, description of that of a cow, iii. 57, .... Malpighi 



— of a large sarcoma or excrescence, iv. 78, .... Connor 



— of a foetus lying outside of, iv. 110, Savard 



— case of a scirrhous, v. 287, Douglas 



— delineation of, at childbirth, v. 324, Same 



— of several extra-uterine foetuses, v. 521, Yonge 



— a scirrhous tumour in the, ix. 274, Tern pieman 



— case of a double uterus and vagina, xiii. 572, . . Purcell 



— see Fcetus. 

 Uvea, see Eye. 



V. 

 Vacuum, boiling of water, and spirits of wine in vacuo, 

 ii. 272, Papin 



— firing of gunpowder, in, ibid, Same 



— experiment of the dissolution of iron in, iii. 373, Same 



— on the motion of pendulums in, v. 172, Derham 



— firing of gunpowder on hot iron in, v. 182, . . Ilauksbee 



— quality of air by firing gunpowder in, v. 183, .... Same 



— production of light from phosphorus in, v. 196, . . Same 



— experiment on the sound of a bell in, v. 202, .... Same 



— resilition of bodies in, v. 208, Same 



— descent of dust in, ibid, Same 



— experiment on the attrition of bodies in, v. 270, . . Same 



— sound not transmittable through, v. 499* Same 



■ — experiment of an interspersed, vi. 321, 480, Desaguliers 



— experiments of freezing in, vii. 22, Fahrenheit 



■ electricity in, x. 233, Watson 



experts, on animal fluids in the receiver, xiii. 537,. • Darwin 



— see Air-Pump, (experiments with) 



Vagina, a double vagina and uterus, xiii. 572 Purcell 



Vaillant, Sebast., m. d., biograph. account of, vi. 314, Note 



— account of the genus araliastrum, ibid 



Valentine, Basil, biographical account of, i. 596 .... Note 

 Vallemont, M. de, account of an egg within an egg, iv. 183 

 Valletta, S., eruption of Vesuvius, 1707, vi. 12 

 Vallisneri, Antony, biographical notice of, v. 248, . . . Note 

 Valsalva, Ant. Maria, m.d., biog. notice of, v. 220. . Note 



— treatise on the human ear, ibid 



— excretory duct from the renal gland, vii. 55 

 Valvasor, J. W., way to cast statues extremely thin, iii 347 



— account of the Zirchnitzer sea, iii. 411 



Vans, Robt., a butter-like substance falling in Ireland, iv. 78 

 Vanbrugh, G.R. obs. of the comet of 1737, Lisbon, viii 155 

 Vapour, drawn from the sea by the sun, iii. 387, . . Halley 



— circulation, return of to the sea, iii. 427, Same 



— clouds and rain accounted for, vii. 323, .... Desaguliers 



— conjectures on the rise of, viii. 584, Same 



— cause of the ascent of, x. 587, Eeles 



— on Mr. Eele's theory of the ascent of, xi. 124 . . Darwin 



— from intensely heated water, force of, xi. 458, . . Note 

 — see Evaporation, Damps. 



Varelaz, Jos., disparition of Saturn's ring observed, xiii 509 

 Varenius, Bernard, biographical notice of, ii. 50, .... Note 



Varnish, manufacture and method of using the japan, iv.299 



— several sorts of Chinese, 482, Sherard 



— poisonous effects of the Indian, iv. 608, Del Papa 



— of the varnish tree of China, x. 387, D'Incarville 



— on the species of the China varnish-tree, xi. 46, 181,Ellis 



— see Toxicodendron. 



Vassal, M., of a foetus in the fallopian tube, i. 358 

 Vassen, Berger, solar eclipse at Gottenburg, vii.-6l8 

 Vater, Abm., m.d., biographical account of, vi. 483, Note 



— case of a colon propendent from the abdomen, ibid. 



— stones voided bv drinking Pyrmont waters, vi. 656 



— case of a partial sight of objects, vii. 44 



— dissection of a body dead of calculous complaints, vii. 144 



— case of a plica polonica, and the cause, vii. 462 



— of the Mexican filtring stone, viii. 30 



— remarkable cutaneous disease, viii. 59 



— cure of a viper's bite by oil, viii. 265 



Vaughan, H., m. d., poisonous quality of the oenanthe 

 crocata, iv. 242 



— bad effect of swallowing fruit-stones, iv. 710 

 Vautravers, M. de, earthquakes Nov., 1, Dec, 9> 1755, in 



Switzerland, x. 665 

 Veay, M., account of an extraord. hermaphrodite, iii. 356 

 Vegetables, anatomy, structure, &c. of, i. 060 ; ii. 255, Grew 

 of, ii. 229, 483, Malpighi 



— veins of plants and their use, i. 668 j ii. 34, .... Lister 



— same subject, ii. 74, Wallis 



— remarks on the food of, iii. 365, Brotherton 



— propagation of plants, iii. 525, Leuwenhoek 



— nature and difference of the juices of, iv. 123,. . . . Lister 



— experiments on the food of, iv. 382, Woodward 



— similar virtues in same class of plants, iv. 4l6, . .Petiver 



— anatomical preparation of, vii. 436, Seba 



— description of vegetable balls, x. 280, Dixon 



— remarks on the byssus, x. 426, Boze, Watson 



— micros, observ. of the impregnation of, xii. 249, . . Stiles 



— experiments on the heat of, xiv. 278, Hunter 



— influence of, on animal life, xv. 319, Ingenhousz 



— observations on their irritability, xvi. 421, Smith 



— on the impregnation of, xvi. 424, Same 



— on the fecundation of, xviii. 504, Knight 



— see Plants, Trees, &c. 



Vegetables, (chemistry,) volatile salt from, ii. 124, ..Coxe 



— method of discovering the qualities of, ii. 485, .. Dodart 



Vegetable fly, description of the, xii. 15, Watson 



Vegetable lamb, see Agnus Scythicus. 



Vegetation, queries concerning, i. 285 ; answers to, 304 



— remarks on, i. 304,317, Beale and Tonge ; additional 



remarks, 332, Tonge 



— to make trees, &c. grow to a great size, ii. 219 



— experts, on, and the food of plants, iv. 382, Woodward 



— experiments and observations on, iv. 697 > De la Pryme 



— speedy vegetation of turnips, vi. 404, Desaguliers 



— remarkable instances of rapid, vii. 56, Dudley 



— of melon seeds 42 years old, viii. 577, Triewald 



33 years old, ix. 100, Gale 



— of plants in moss, experiments on, ix. 468, Bonnet 



— generat. decomp. &c. of veget. bodies, ix. 605, Needham 



— vapours from mines not destructive of, xii. 342, Bowles 



— experiments and observations on, xiii. 399i • • • • Mustel 



— see Sap. 



Veicht, Robt. effect of lightning on ships, xii. 157 



Veins, remarks on the extremities of, &c, iv. 680, Cowper 



— see particular veins, as Pulmonary Veins, Vena Cava, &c. 



— see also Transfusion, Injection, Blood. 



— for veins of plants, see Vegetables. 

 Velocity, see Motion, (Force of Moving Bodies.) 



Vena cava, contraction of the, ix. 348, Haller 



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