Gout, ancient remedies for, 15 ; fimilar to 
the modern, ibid ; arifing from indigeftion, 
137, 267, 8 ; its varieties, 170 ; detail of 
fymptoms, 171 ; treatment, 172. 
Granville (Dr.), his claflification of the 
difeafes of children, 86, 7. 
Gravel, arifing from indigeftion, 138. 
Greece, the early phyficians there, 3 ; or 
rarher furgeons, 4 ; modern, 73. 
Gum-bile, caufes of, lit ; treatment, 112. 
Haematics, difeafes of the blood, 191 ; caufes 
of, 192. 
Hasmorrhagia, flux of blood from various 
parts, 280, 282. 
Hair, difeafes of, 364. 
Haller, a moll enlightened phyfiologift, 35. 
Hamilton’s direftions in falivation, 113. 
Harrifon’s theory of fever, 198, 205. 
Harvey, difcovers the circulation of the 
blood, 22; liiftory of the difcovery, 28; 
tinder what circumftances, 30 ; oppofes 
Afellius, 33. 
Haygarth’s rules for preventing infedlion 
or contagion, 208. 
Head-ache, dizzinefs, &c. 313. 
Hearing, drfefts in, 30!, 2, 
Heart, aftion of, 80; how aftefted bv indi¬ 
geftion, 133 ; difeafes of, 244, et feq. 
Heart-burn, 123. 
Heberden’s remarks on the pulfe, 93, 4. 
Heliodorus, an early furgeon at Rome, 12, 
Helminthia, worms of the inteftines, 162. 
Helmont (Van), his curious .tenets, 26. 
Hepatitis, 160. 
Heraclides of Tarentum, 8. 
Herennius, Philo, of Tarfus, ir. 
Hernia, rupture, 365. 
Herodius, made his patients take violent ex- 
ercife, 3. 
Herophilus, his cruel praftice, 9. 
Hiccough, 309. 
Hildenbrand of Vienna, 63, 4; an excellent 
lefturer and writer, 65. 
Himley of Gottingen, 59. 
Hindoos, cultivated medicine very early, 3. 
Hippocrates, a defcendant of Efculapius, 
ftyled the father of medicine, 4 ; his 
fyftem, 3 ; praftice, 6, 7 ; oppofed by 
Afclepiades, 1 o ; his theory of the blood’s 
motion, 28; his (kill in diagnofis, 92 ; his 
praftice and opinions now tacitly afted 
upon, ibid. 
Hoffman and his opinions, 34. 
Hr.fpital for fick children at Vienna, 69, 70. 
Holpital gangrene, fuppofed caufe of, 70. 
Humoral pathology, 90. 
Hunter (John), a moft diftingniihed ana- 
tomift, 35; his mufeum, 36; character, 
by Mr. Lawrence, ibid. 
Hunter (William), 36. 
Hydrocephalus, fymptoms of, 340, I ; treat¬ 
ment, 341, 2. 
Hydrocyanic acid, 149. 
Hydrophobia, 311; cafes, 312; fymptoms, 
313; treatment, 314, 15. 
Hydrops, dropfy, 338. 
Hypertrophy, or enlargement of the heart, 
249, 50 ; combined with dilatation of the 
ventricles, 252. 
Hyfterics, from uterine irritation, 316. 
James’s obfervations on inflammation, 45. 
Jaundice, 171 ; black, 174, 5. 
Ibis inftrufts mankind in the ufe of clyfters,2. 
Ifterus, yellow jaundice, 171 ; caufes, 172, 
3 ; treatment, 174. 
Igms facer, 234; treatment, 235. 
Iliac paffion, 150. 
Impotence front various caufes, 331. 
Incubu', or nightmare, 189, go. 
Indigeftion, caufes of, 101, 25 more fully 
traced-f-128 ; firft clafs of difeafes arifing 
from, 129; treatment, 141; fecond dafs- 
oi diforders, 133; treatment, 147. 
•INDEX. 
Inflammation, 193 ; inquiry into the caufes 
and phenomena of, 194; the eftift, not 
the caufe, of fever, 197 ; difeafes con¬ 
ceded with, 227; external, 230; inter¬ 
nal, 235 ; of the brain,- 236 ; of the lungs 
and pleura, 242; of the heart, 244; of 
the arteries, 246 ; of the bowels, 259 ; 
liver, 260; fpleen and kidneys, 262 ; 
bladder, 263; womb, 263, 43 tefticles, 
264; eye, ibid; bronchia, 265. 
Injeftions, firft ufed in anatomy by Vefa- 
lius, 21. 
Ionthus, tubercles in the face, 231. 
Jofcphine academy, connefted with the mi¬ 
litary hofpital, at Vienna, 70. 
Italy, furgery there in the 18th century, 
37; mad-houfes in the 19th, 52, 3; 
Dr. Sir Charles Morgan’s account of the 
prefent ftate of medicine there, 33, 4, 5. 
Itch, varieties of, 362. 
Kepler, applies mechanical principles to ex¬ 
plain vifion, 33. 
Kern, and his futgical clinic, 65; his very 
Angular praftice, 66. 
Kidneys, inflammation o e , 261 ; cute, 263 ; 
gravel or (tone in, 346. 
Lagnefis, inordinate defire, 330- 
Lallemand, his work on the brain, 46 ; his 
opinion as to the caufe of delirium, 47. 
Langenbeck, 58; an excellent furgeon at 
Gottingen, 59. 
Larrey, his opinions on the yellow fever,2i5. 
Ladeals and lymphatics, 33. 
Lawrence, his charader of Hunter and 
Cuvier, 30. 
Le Drarr, his improvement in lithotomy, 23; 
his works, 38. 
Leeuwenhoek’s microfcoplcal difcoveries,33. 
Leonides of Alexandria, 12. 
Lepidofis, foaly difeafes, 353. 
Leprofy, common, 353; white, 289, 354; 
black, 334. 
Lethargy, or fomnolency, 319. 
Leucanthropia, or wolf-madnefs, 14. 
Leucorrhoea, or whites, 323 ; mucous, 324; 
watery, 325; diftinguilhed from Blenor- 
, l-hcea, 327. 
Libraries, Sec. in Germany, 57. 
Limofis, morbid appetite, ) 19. 
Linntcus, his modification of Sauvage’s fyf- 
tem, 82. 
Lithia, ftone and gravel, 346. 
Lithotomy, improvements in during the 
16th century, 22 ; the [high operation, 
23 - 
Liver, its efr'eds on the head, 106, 7 ; how 
aft'ederl in indigeftion, 148 ; abfeefs in, 
230 ; inflammation of, 160. 
Lobftein, his account of the anatomical 
mufeum of Stralhurg, 72-4. 
Lower, Margaret, curious and incredible 
cafe of, 13 x. 
Lues, the venereal difeafe, 292. 
Lunatic Afylum at Cliarenton, how regulat¬ 
ed, 50, 31; the Salpetriere, See. 5! ; 
treatment of the infane in the provinces, 
52; in Italy, 52, 3. 
Lungs, how afftded in indigeftion, 139,40; 
their adion, 180; inflammation of, 242. 
Lying-in hofpital at Vienna, 68 ; where all 
the children die, 69 ; at Paris, 74. 
Lyfla, feline and canine madnefs, 311. 
Macbride’s fyftem praifed by Dr. Good, 84. 
M.ichaon, ton of Efculapius, 3. 
Majendie, a French phyfiologift, 46. 
Ma ggi, refutes an error as to gunthot wounds, 
22 . 
Malis, loufy diforder, 363. 
Marafmus, atrophy, 282. 
Marinus, the reftorer of anatomy, 11. 
Materia medica, arrangement of by Cullen, 
Murray, and Parr, 95 ; by Kirby, 96 ; al¬ 
phabetical lift, 369. 
805 
Meades, 274; how diftinguilhed from 
fcarlet fever, 274, 5; treatment, 273. 
Mechanical principles abfurdly applied to 
the fandions of the human frame, 26, 
32 ; the fyftem not, however, ufclefs, 33. 
Mediate aufcultaiion. See Stethofeope. 
Medical magazines, firft publication of, 37. ’ 
Medicines diftinguilhed into chemical and 
galenical, 26. 
Meltena, black jaundice, 174. 
Melampus difcovers the virtues of the me- 
lampodium, 2; his (kill, 4. 
Menecrates, author of 155 books, 11. 
Menfes, obftruded, 322 ; profufe. Sec. 323. 
M-rcury, various preparations of, 146; 
cautions in the ufe of, 148. 
Mefotica, diforders of the parenchyma, 336. 
Metaftafis, or tranfmiffion of difeafes, 90, 
99 - 
Method cs, or Metbodifts, 10 ; their tenct3, 
it ; compared with Brown’s, 40. 
Metrocelis, mother’s marks, 3-66, 
Midwifery in the 16th century, 23. 
Milk, defeds in, 329 ; in the breads of 
males, 330. 
Mimofis, a term ufed by Dr. Hall to denote 
certain fpecies.ot indigeftion, 131, 2; M. 
urgens, 133,4; M decolor, 139, 
Mithridates king of Pontus, 8 ; hisuniverfal 
remedy, cr antidote, 25. 
Moliere, alludes to the difpute between Syl¬ 
vius and Vefalius, 22. 
Monro, Dr. the firft of the Scottilh ledurers 
on furgery and anatomy, 37. 
Moore (Anne), her cafe related, 120, 1. 
Moria, foolilhnefs, 299. 
Morphica, monftrofities, 366. 
Murray’s arrangement of the materia me¬ 
dico, 93. 
Mufeum of natural hiftory at Vienna, 63 ; 
of morbid anatomy, 65; of anatomy at 
Stralhurg, 72, 3, 4. 
Narcotics, 96. 
Nature will not always cure difeafes, 90. 
Naufea, or loathing, 124,5 
Neinefius bilhup of Emilia, faid to have dis¬ 
covered the circulation of the bluod, 16 ; 
his pretenfions examined, 29. 
Nervous fyftem, 80, 94. 
Nettle-ralh, 275, 353. 
Neuralgia, tic doloureux, 308. 
Neurotica, nervous diforders, 298. 
’Nicander of Colophon, 8. 
Nicholls's theory of fever, 19S, 9 ; fome of 
his pofitions r.ct proved, 205. 
Nightmare a common difeafe, 190. 
Nofe reltored, 23 ; ulcerated, 178; polypus 
in, ibid. 
Nofology, or claflification of difeafes, 80 ; 
Good’s, 81, 101; Plater’s, 8 1 ; Sauvages’s, 
81,2; Linnceus’s, Vogel’s, and Sugar’s, 
82; Cullen’s, 83; Selle’s, Plouquet’s, 
&c. 84 ; Darwin’s and Part’s, 85; Young’s, 
Wiilan’s, Sec. 86; Granville’s of the dif¬ 
eafes of children, 87. 
Nouffer’s remedy againft worms, 165. 
Nymphomania, 330, 1. 
Odontia, diforders of the teeth, 108. 
Oedoptofis, protrufion of fome of the genital 
organs, 331, 2. 
Gifopliagus, obftruftions in, II5; cafes, 
116, 17. 
Oil as a remedy againft worms, 167; oil of 
turpentine, 167. 
Olophonia, deleft of voice, 366. 
Omentum, enlargement of, 176,7. 
Ophthalmy, curious cafes of, 71. 
Opium, its conftituent parts, 48. 
Oigaftica, difeafes aft’efting the orgafm, 330. 
Oribafius, one of the chief phyficians after 
Galen, 14; his difeoveries and praftice,' 
14,15. 
Ofiander and his mufeum, 60. 
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