INDEX TO THE TREATISES 
IN THE SECOND VOLUME, 
*%* The letters a,b, c, refer to the columns — a to the first column; 4 to the second column; c to the third column. 
INFANCY. 
Air and exercise, remarks on, 14 4. 
Bathing of i infants, remarks oh, 13 c. 
Bowels, disor der in, 18 b. 
Clothing of infants, remarks on, 13 a, 4, c. 
Croup, remairks on this disorder, 18 c. 
Diet of infants, lie. 
Diseases of imfancy, 15 a. 
Mesenteric atrophy, remarks on, b5 a ; con- 
sumptions, 15 b. 
Nurseries, remarks on, 13 b. 
Purgatives, tHie practice of administering them 
to new-bor n children, injudicious, 12 b. 
Rickets, remarks on, 18 a. 
Suckling, importance of this being done by the 
mother, 12 a. 
Teething, affections occasioned by, 18 b. 
Temperature' of infants, 12 c. 
Washing of infants-, remarks on, 13 c. 
Water in the head, remarks on this disease, 16 c ; 
chronic internal, ib. ; chronic external, 17 a; 
acute hydr ocephalus, ib. 
Weaning, time of, 12 b. 
Worms, rem arks on, 17 c. 
INSTRUMENTS, MATHEMATICAL. 
Compasses, plain, 23 t ; drawing, ib. ; propor- 
tional, 27 <a. 
Gunter’s line's, 26 c. 
Line of chor ds, to construct, 25 b ; of rhumbs,. 
ib.; of sineis, ib. ; of tangents, ib. ; of secants, 
ib. ; of half-tangents, ib. ; of longitude, 25 c; 
of latitude;, ib.; of hours, ib. ; of inclinations 
of meridiams, ib. 
Line? Of gquial parts, 24 b. 
Parallel ruler, 24 a. 
Pen and pencil, drawing, 24. a. 
Protractor, ;24 a. 
Scale, plain, 24 b. 
Sector, 25 c to 26 c. 
MAGNETISM. 
Attraction and repulsion, magnetic, account of, 
94 a. 
Compass, mariner’s, construction of 9 6c; azi- 
muth, 97 <i 2 . 
Compass-needles, best methods of communicating 
magnetism to them, 96 a, b. 
Deviation of the magnet from the true meri- 
• dian, 95 it. 
Dip of the needle, 95 a. 
Dipping-needle, construction and use of, 97 a, 
95 b. 
Directive property of the magnet, first disco- 
very of, 93 c. 
Experiments to illustrate the magnetic theory, 
97 b. 
Horse-shoe magnet, and its properties, described, 
96 a. 
Inclination, magnetic, 95 a. 
Instruments, magnetical ; construction and use 
of the principal, 96 c. 
Iron, methods of making it magnetical, 95 c. 
Magnet, description of, 93 b. 
Needles, magnetic, construction and use of, 96 c. 
Polarity of the magnet, account of, 94 c. 
Poles of the magnet, described, 93 c. 
Properties, characteristic, of the magnet, 93 c. 
Steel, its difference in receiving magnetism, very 
great, 96 c . 
MATERIA MEDIC A. 
Antacids, 1 15 c. 
Anthelmintics, 116 a. 
Antispasmodics, 111a, b. 
Aromatics, 111 c to 112 4. 
Astringents, 112 h ;■ vegetable, ib. ; mineral, c. 
Cathartics, 113 b. 
Coffee considered as a drink, 109 c. 
^Definition of the materia medica, 107 c. 
Demulcents, 1 16 b. 
Diaphoretics, 114 4, c. 
Dietetics, 107 £.■ 
Diluents and emollients, 116 b. 
Diuretics, 114a; saline, b ; vegetable, ib. ; from 
the animal kingdom, ib. 
Dressing victuals, remarks on the different me- 
thods of, 108 c. 
Drink, remarks on, 109 a. 
Fhnetics, 112c; from the vegetable kingdom, 
113a; from- the mineral kingdom, ib. 
Emmenagogues, 113 c ; from the class of tonics, 
114a; of antispasmodics, ib. ; of cathartics, ib. 
F.pispastics and rubefacients, 115 b „ 
Errhines, 115 a. 
" Escharotics, 116 a. 
Expectorants, 114 c, 115 a. 
Food, animal, remarks on, 108 0 ; vegetable, 4. 
Laxatives, 113 c.. 
Lithontriptics, 115 c. 
Medicinal?) 109 c ; classification of, 110 a. 
Milk and its products, remarks on, 108 b. 
Narcotics, enumeration of, 110 4 to 111a. 
Organic life, principles of, 107 c. 
Purgatives, 113 4. 
Refrigerants, 1 15 b. 
Sialagogues, 11 5 a. 
Tea considered as a drink, 109 c. 
Tonics, 1114; from the mineral kingdom, ib. ; 
from the vegetable kingdom, c. 
Water, remarks on the different kinds of, as 
articles of drink, 109 a; spring, well, river, 
lake, and rain water, b ; snow°and hail wa- 
ter, c. 
MECHANICS. 
Balance, principles and theory of the, 124 c ; 
circumstances to be attended to, in order to 
have it as perfect as possible, ib. 
Capstan, principles of, 125 b. 
Compound machines considered, 127 b. 
Cranes, principles of, 125 c. 
Horses, important points of attention in the ap- 
plication of them as moving powers in ma- 
chinery, 127 c, 128 a. 
Inclined plane, principles of, 126 b. 
Lever described, 128 4; different sorts of, and 
illustrations of these : the first kind, ib. ; the 
second kind, c : the hammer-lever, 124 a. 
Mechanics, definition and vast importance of 
this science, 123 a. 
Men and horses ; of the application of, as mov- 
ing powers in machinery, &c. 127 c. 
Powers, mechanical, defined, 123 a; enumer- 
ated, 4. 
Pulley, different kinds of, and principles and 
operation of each, 126 a. 
Screw, prill ciplfes of, 126c; illustration ©f its 
effect, 127 a. 
Steel-yard, principles of, 125 a. 
Wedge, principles of, 126 b. 
Wheel and axle, principles and operation of* 
125 a to 126 a. 
Wheels and pinions, ratio of their respective ve- 
locities illustrated, 127 c. 
MEDALS. 
British coins, early, 130 4 ; those of the Saxon 
heptarchy, ib. since the Conquest, ib. ; first- 
gold coinage, c; copper, 131 a. 
Coinage, question of the origin of, 128 c. 
Coins and medals, the knowledge of, probably 
first introduced into this country from Italy,. 
128 4. ■ 
Definition of the term medal, 128 4. 
Greek coins, list and value of, 128 c; silver, ib. ; 
copper, 1 29 a ; gold, ib. 
Legends on the Greek and Roman coins, 130 a. 
Medallions, ancient, 130 a. 
Portraits on ancient coins, 129 c- of the kings 
and queens of Macedon, Sicily, &e. ib. ; of 
Roman emperors, ibid ; of kings on Greek 
coins, ibid. 
Reverses of medals among the Greeks and Ro- 
mans, 130 a. 
Roman coins, list and value of, 129 a ; brass, ib.y 
silver, 4 . gold, c. 
Study of medals, its antiquity, 128 4. 
Utility of medals in the sciences, 128 4. 
MEDICINE. 
Adynamia ; their genera, symptoms; and me- 
thods of cure, 147 a to c. 
Blood, discharges of ; their genera, symptoms, 
and methods of cure, 144 a to 145 a. 
Boerhaave, the founder of the humoral patho- 
logy, 1324. 
Cachexies, class of, 152 a. 
Classification of diseases, 133 4. * 
Cold affusion in fever, 136 4 to 137 a. 
Cold air, use of, in fever, 1 37 4. 
Comata ; their genera, symptoms; and methods 
of cure, 146 4 to 147 a. 
Critical days in fever, 139 4. 
Darwin, Dr., his theory, and objections to itj 
1S3 a, 4, 135 c. 
Definition of medicine, 131 a. 
Diseases, classification of, 133 4 
Dropsy ; its genera, and methods of cure, 153 * 
to 154 4. 
Empirics and Dogmatists, sects of, 131 4. 
Epicureanphilosophy introduced intothe schools 
of medicine, 131 c. 
Eruptions ; their genera, symptoms, species, and 
methods of cure, 143 a to 144 a. 
Fever, definition of, 134a; phenomena of, ib.; 
species, 4 ; Cullen’s genera, c; its exciting 
causes, ib . ; proximate cause, 13 5a: theory of’ 
Dr. Cullen respecting fever, and objections to' 
this, 4; of Dr. Darwin, and objections, ib. ; 
treatment in, 136 a; of cold and tepid affu- 
sion and ablution, cold water internally, and 
cold air, in, 4; other refrigerants, 137 c; of 
the use of animal food, 138 a . sudorifics, 4 ; 
purgatives- and emetics, c ; unfavourable signs 
in fever, 139 a ;< critical days, 4 ; recapitula- 
tion of the treatment of fever, 139 4; treat- 
ment of continued fever during the first three 
or four days, ib. ; after the fifth or sixth day,, 
ib. ; treatment of intermittent fever, ib. 
Fever-houses considered, 139 e to 140 4. 
Galen, his doctrines, 131 <v 
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