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attenuing small apartments, 43. Persons whose business conhnes themto town ought to sleep in the country, 43. High walls obstruct thefree current of air, 44. Trees should not be planted too near tohouses, 44. Fresh air peculiarly necessary for the sick, 44. The sickin hospitals in more danger from the want of fresh air, than from theirdisorders, 45. Wholesomeness of the morning air, 47. The change-ableness of, one great cause of catching cold, 70. Those who keepmost within doors, the most sensible of these changes, 70. Of thenight to be carefully guarded against, 71. Fresh air often of more ef-ficacy in diseases than medicine, 77. Its importance in fevers, 80, 88.States of, liable to produce putrid fevers, 112. Must be kept cool andfresh in sick chambers undtr this disorder, 114. Change of, one ofthe most effectual remedies for the hooping cough, 184. The qualitiesof, a material consideration for asthmatic patients, 257. The variousways by which it may be rendered noxious, 378. Confined, how totry, and purify, 378. Method of recovering persons poisoned by fou.air, 379. Fresh, of the greatest importance in fainting fits, 382.

Alkali, caustic, recommended in the stone, 209.

Aliment, is capable of changing the whole constitution of the body, 34.Will in many cases answer every intention in the cure of diseases, 35.The calls of hunger and thirst sufficient for regulating the due quantityof, 35. The quality of, how injured, 35. A due mixture of vegetablesnecessary with our animal food, 35. To what the bad effects of teaare principally owing, 36. Water, good and bad, distinguished, 37.Inquiry into the qualities of fermented liquors, with instructions forthe due making of them, 38. The qualities of good bread, and whyadulterated by bakers, 39. General rules for the choice of food, 39.Ought not to be too uniform.—Meals ought to be taken at regulartimes, 40. Long fasting injurious both to old and young.—Breakfastsand suppers.—Changes of diet ought to be gradually made, 41.

Amaurosis. See Gutta sekena.

American Indians, their method of curing the venereal disease, 325.

Amusements, sedentary, improper for sedentary persons, 28. Ought al-ways to be of an active kind, 46.

Anasarca. See Dropsy.

Anger, violent fits of, injurious to the constitution, 62. Tranquillity ofmind essential to health, 62.

Animal food, cautions in giving it to children, 11. Animals that die ofthemselves, unfit for food, 36. Overdriven cattle rendered unwhole-some, 36. The artifices of butchers exposed, 36. Too great aquantity of, generates the scurvy, 36.

Animals and plants, the analogy in the nourishment of, stated, 51.

Anthony's fire, St. See Erysipelas.

Antimony tartarised, solution of, for an emetic, 457.

Aphthae. See Thrush.

Apoplexy, who most liable to this disorder, 259. Causes, 259. Symp-toms and method of cure, 259. Cautions to persons of an apoplecticmake, 260.

Apothecaries' weights, a table of, 415.

Apparel. See Clothing.

tppetite, want of, causes and remeiUis for, 2ftt.