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Offification of the heart, 249 ; of various 
parts, 337, 8. 
Ofthexia, offificaiion of certain parts, 337,8. 
Oxygen gas, 100. 
Painter’s colic, 150; remedies for, 151. 
Palamedes, the Greek phyfician, 4. 
Palladius the Sophift, firft wrote fatisfadlorily 
upon urine, 16. 
Palpitation of the heart, 244, 3C9. 
Palfy, three varieties of, 322. 
Parabyfma, internal tumours, 175, 6; treat¬ 
ment, 177. 
Paracelfus, his doftrines, 25. 
Paracufis, defeft of hearing, 301, 2" 
Paracyefis, morbid pregnancy, 335. 
Paraefthefis, defedts in the fenfes, 366. 
Parageufis, depraved tafte, 302, 
Paramenia, difordered menfes, 322. 
Parapfis, depraved feeling, 302, 3. 
Pare (Ambrofe), a very eminent Frencli 
l’urgeon, 22. 
Paris, prefentftate of medical opinions there, 
48, 9. 
Parifet, his account of the yellow fever at 
Cadiz, 49. 
Park’s pathology of fever, 206. 
Parodynia, difficult labour, 335, 6. 
Paroniria, morbid dreaming, 299. 
Paropfis, difeafed vifion, 299, 300. 
Parofmis, depraved fmell, 300. 
Paroftia, difeafed bones, 337. 
Parr (Dr.), his nofological arrangement,83; 
its merits and defedts, 86. 
Paruria, difeafes of the urine, 343. 
Pathology, as diftinguiffied from phyfiology, 
1; early hiitory of, 2; a'mong the Egyp¬ 
tians, Jews, Hindoos, and Chinefe, 3; in 
Greece, 3; gymnaftic fyftem, 4; under 
H ppocrates and his followers, 4-7 ; dog¬ 
matic and empirical fedts, 7 ; Alexandrian 
fchool, 9; among the Romans, 9, 10; 
methodic fed!, 10, II; pneumatic and 
ecledlie fedts, 12; chemical fyftem, 31 ; 
mechanical, 32 ; Bichat’s fyftem, 39 ; 
Cullen’s, 39, 40; Brown’s, 40, 41 ; Ra- 
fori’s, 41,2; 53,4; Brouffiais’s, 43,46, 
50; Darwin’s fympathetic fyftem, found¬ 
ed on phyfiology, 43, 4; prefent ftate of 
in England, 44, 5 ; in France, 45, 74; 
Italy, 52 ; Spain and Portugal, 55 ; Ger¬ 
many, 56; Greece, 75; Turkey, ibid; 
general principles, 79, 80 ; nofology, 80- 
87; caufes of difeafe, 88-91 ; fymptoms, 
91-94; materia medica, 94-96 ; alphabe¬ 
tical lift of therapeutics, 96-100; clafii- 
fication, 101-3675 materia medica, 369. 
Paulus of JE gina, the laft of the Greek 
claffical phyficians, 15, 16. 
Pedtoriloquifm, 285. 
Pediluvium, 460. 
Pepper (black), a cure for intermittent 
fever, 55. 
Pericarditis, 245, 6 ; fub-acute, 247, 8, 
Peripneumony, or inflammation of the lungs, 
242 ; treatment, &c. 243. 
Peritonitis, acute, 253; chronic, 254, 5. 
Perfpiration, or fweat, 206. 
Perofplanchnia, internal defedts, 366, 7. 
Pefiary, 332; different kinds, and how to ap¬ 
ply them, 333. 
Petit, an eminent French furgeon, 38. 
Peromelia, defedts in the limbs, 367. 
Phimofis and paraphimofis, 231. 
Phlebotomy taught by the hippopotamus, 2; 
much ufed by Hippocrates, 6,7; ediftre- 
fpedting it,2i; ftimulative3nd fedative, 99. 
Phlegmon, or abfeefs near the furface, 230. 
Phlogotica, or inflammatory difeafes, 227. 
Phlyfis, whitlow, 233. 
Phonica, diforders of the vocal organs, 177. 
Phofphates in calculi, 349. 
Phrenica, diforders ofthe mind, or brain,298. 
I N D E X. 
Phrenitis. See Cephalitis. 
Phyma, boil, carbuncle, &c. 231. 
Phyficians, quarrel with the furgeor.s and 
patronize the barbers, 27 ; their oath, 28. 
Phyfiology, necefiary to be ftudied previoufly 
to pathology, 1, ftate of at the prefer.t 
time, 4;. 
Pica r.afi, or fnuff-taking, 123. 
Piles, blind, 168; bleeding, 169, 70. 
Pinel’s fyftem, 84, 
Plater, firft arranged difeafes by their fymp¬ 
toms, 81. 
Plenck’s arrangement of the difeafes of the 
eyes and fkin, 86. 
Plethora, 280, 
Pleuralgia, or pain in the fide, 191. 
Pleurify, 242, 3. 
Pleuritis verminofa, 140; three other va¬ 
rieties, 242. 
Pliny the elder, 11. 
Plouquet’s outlines of a fyftem, 84. 
Pneumatic fed!, 12. 
Pneumatics, diforders of the refpiratory 
fundlions, 177. 
Pneumonia, diforders of the lungs, 180. 
Polyperia, monftrofities, 367. 
Polypodia, a remedy again!! worms, 165. 
Polypus in the nofe, 178 ; uterus and va¬ 
gina, 335. 
Polyfarcia, corpulence, 336. 
Portugal, ftate of pathology there at prefent, 
55 > 6 . 
Pott, an excellent Englifli furgeon, 37. 
Praxagoras, a bold pradlitioner, 8. 
Prickly heat, 352. 
Priefts, whether originally phyficians among 
the Egyptians and Jews, 2, 3 ; by being 
permitted to marry, the connedlion be¬ 
tween phyfic and divinity was deftroytd 
among the Catholics, 20. 
Piing’s “Indications,” extracts from, 89,90. 
Prochafka and his mufeum,63. 
Prodtica, difeafes of the anus, 166. 
Proeotia, premature puberty, 330. 
Profefforfhips in the French fchools, fold,49. 
Pruffic acid in confumption, 287. 
Pruffian army, abfurd pradtice, 71. 
Pfellifmus, Hammering, lifping, &c. 179, 80. 
Pfellus, contradidtory accounts of him, 17. 
Pfeudocyefis, fpurious pregnancy, 336. 
Ptyalifmus, or fpitting diforders, 113. 
Pulfe, phenomena of, 93; influenced by 
ftature, time of day, &c. 94; ceffation of, 
curious cafe, 307. 
Purgatives, 96; various kinds, 97. 
Pyredtica, or fevers, 195. 
Pythagoras, and his fed!, 4. * 
Quinfy, 240; treatment of the malignant 
putrid kind, 241. 
Rabies canina, 46. 
Raphania, contraction of the joints, 310. 
Rafori’s contra-ftimulant fyftem, 41; where¬ 
in it differs from Brown’s, 42 ; explained 
by Dr. Morgan, 53, 4, 5. 
Redtum, diforders of, 1705 cure, 171. 
Refrigerants, 96. 
Retching and vomiting, 125. 
Rhazes, an Arabian phyfician, 18 ; proves 
that the fmall-pox was known toGalen,l9. 
Rheyma, laceration, 365. 
Rheumatifm, 168 ; acute, 169; chronic, 170. 
Rhoncus, hoarfenefs, 178. 
Richerand, 50. 
Rickets, 288, 9. 
Ringworm, 357, of the fcalp, 359. 
Riolan, endeavours to difprove the circula¬ 
tion of the blood, 30. 
Robiquet, his experiments upon opium, 48. 
Romans, long without phyficians, 9. 
Rofe-rafli of fummer and autumn, 352. 
Roux, his fuccefs in a curious and difficult 
operation, 50. 
Royer-Collard, fome curious anecdotes of 
him, 48, 9. 
Rudbeck (Olaus), difeovers the abforbents of 
the large inteftines, 33. 
Rufus of Ephefus, 11. 
Rumination in the human fubjedl, 125 5 
curious cafes, 126, 7 ; diffeftion, 12S. 
Ruft (of Berlin), on ophthalmy, 70. 
Sugar’s arrangement of difeafes, 82. 
Saint Vitus’s dance, 309. 
Salerno, its celebrated fchool of medicine, 
19; firft confers degrees, 20. 
Salivation, 113; its ufes, 114. 
Sandlorius, 31 ; his theory of difeafe, 32. 
Sarpi (Paul), 30. 
Sauvages, 81; his claffification, 82. 
Scalled head, 359. 
Schirrhus, as diftinguiffied from cancer, 
291. 
Schmidt (John Adam), a writer on difeafes 
of the eye, 66, 7. 
Scotch furgeons in the 18th century, 37. 
Scrofula, or king’s evil, 289; fymptoms of 
cure, 290,1. 
Scurvy, fometimes confounded with fiphilis, 
21; in the gums, 111 ; hiftory of the dif¬ 
eafe, 294; land, 295; fea, 2965 treatment** 
297. 
Secretion and abforption, 80, 
Sedatives, how they aft, 99. 
Seleucus, gives up his wife to his fon, 9. 
Selle’s claffification of difeafes, 84. 
Serapion the empiric, 8. 
Servetus, 22 ; a good philofopher and divine, 
burnt for his religion, 29 ; approached very 
near to the full difeovery of the circula¬ 
tion of the blood, 29, 30. 
Sharp, an eminent Englifli furgeon, 37. 
Shields’s account of the yellow fever of Ba¬ 
tavia, 219. 
Shingles, 356. 
Sialagogues, 96. 
Simeon of Antioch, 17. 
Small-pox, of greater antiquity than com¬ 
monly fuppofed, 19; its varieties, 277 ; 
treatment, 278, 9. 
Smell, depraved or wanting, 302. 
Sneezing, 309. 
Soranus, an eminent teacher of the metho¬ 
dic feft, 11. 
Spain, its public libraries in the 12th cen¬ 
tury, 19; prefent ftate, 53. 
Sparganofis, milk-fpread, 268. 
Spafm, 308; convulfive, 309. 
Speechleffnefs, 178, 9. 
Spermorrhoea, involuntary emifiion of feed, 
329. 
Spinal marrow, inflammation of, 47. 
Splanchnica, diforders ofthe vifeera, 33. 
Spleen, inflammation of, 262. 
Squinting, 301. 
Stahl, his theory of life founded on the 
Cartefian philofophy, 34. 
Stephen the Athenian, 16. 
Stereotica, fraftures, diflocations, &c. 365. 
Sternalgia, or angina peftoris, 190, I. 
Scethofcope, 244 ; deferibed, 243 ; its aftion 
in difeafes of the heart, 2485 of the lungs, 
285 ; in dropfy of the cheft, 339. 
Stimulants, 96 ; general, 98, 9. 
Stomach, how affefted by difeafe, ioi;more 
particularly, J07; by eating too faft, 142; 
inflammation of, 256. 
Scones in the bowels, 151. 
Strangury, 343; from worms, 344. 
Strifture in the reftum, 151,2; 166, 7; how 
to be treated,153, 167, 85 in the urethra, 
328; treatment, 329. 
Struma, fcrophula, or king’s evil, 289. 
Stuttering, or Hammering, 179, 80. 
Sugar firft ufed in medicine by the Arabians, 
18. 
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Surgery, 
