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INDEX.

Our account of the most celebrated German Spas, and of the MineralWaters of our own Country (page 396 to 410), and also the MedicalBotany or Family Herbal, being alphabetically arranged (page 416 to439), we deem it unnecessary to extend the Index by any reference tothose pages, excepting where any particular formula or recipe has beeninterspersed.

ABLUTIONS, Jewish and Mahometan, well calculated for the preserv-ation of health, 36.

Abortion, causes and symptoms of, 342. Means of prevention, 343.Proper treatment in the case of, 393.

Abscesses, how to be treated, 199, 359.

Accidents. See Casualties.

Acids, of peculiar service in consumptions, 102. In putrid fevers, 114Not suitable to the measles, 152.

Acidities in the bowels of infants, the origin of, 343. Method of cure,343.

Acid, vitriolic, diluted, 442.

Addison, his remarks on the luxury of the table, 52.

JEther, very serviceable in removing fits of the asthma, 258. Is excel-lent for flatulencies, 282.

iEthiops mineral, strongly recommended by Dr. Cheyne in inflammationsof the eyes, 171.

Agaric of the oak, its merit as a styptic, 362.

Agriculture, a healthful and profitable employment, 27. Is too mucaneglected in favour of manufactures, 27. Gardening the most whole-some amusement for sedentary persons, 30.

Ague, a species of fever no person can mistake, and the proper medicinefor generally known.—Causes of, 81. Symptoms—Regimen for—Under a proper regimen, will often go ofF without medicine—Medicaltreatment of, 82. Often degenerates into obstinate chronical diseases,if not radically cured.—Cinchona bark the only medicine to be reliedon in.—Children how to be treated in, 85. Preventive medicine forthose who live in marshy countries, 86. See Ague also in 420, 434.

Air, confined, poisonous to children, 17. A free open air will sometimescure the most obstinate disorders in children, 18. The qualities of,act more sensibly on the body than is generally imagined, 41. Theseveral noxious qualities of, specified.-—In large cities, polluted byvarious circumstances, 42. The air in churches, how rendered un-wholesome, 42. Houses ought to be ventilated daily. 43. The danger

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