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uniting it with some medicine which may render the system suscepti-ble of its action, 156 ; the action of, promoted by combination, 150.Bath, hot and cold, mechanical notions respecting their operation and ef-fects, 22.Bathing wisely considered as an act of religion, 18.Bath, the use of the, prohibited by certain Priestesses in Greece, 31,

(Note.)Beer how preserved by hops. 172.Beguin describes Calomel under the name of Draco Mitigatus, in his

" Tirocinium Chemicum," 52.Belladonna, its sympathetic influence upon the Iris, by contact with the

cornea, 72.Benediction bestowed on those who sneeze, the supposed origin of the,

112.Berkley's " Siris" happily ridiculed by Reeve, 27, (Note.)Berries of Juniper, unless bruised, will not yield their virtues to any

menstruum, 189.Berthollet's important law of affinity highly useful to the physican, 187.Besnier expelled the faculty of medicine, for having administered Anti-mony, 51.Bezoar, often administered in conjunction with active remedies, and has

thus acquired unjust credit, 63 ; derivation of the term, 63, (Note.)Bezoardics, a name given to a certain tribe of medicinal substances, 63,

(Note.)Bi-chloride of Mercury, the new name for corrosive sublimate, 40.Bile the, undergoes decomposition in certain states of disease, 116, (Note.)Bischoff introduces Gelatin, as a remedy, into Germany, 57.Bitter extractive, its necessity as an alimentary stimulant in an inverseratio with the nutritive power of the ingesta, 81 ; important use of toman, 81 ; passes through the alimentary canal without undergoing anychange, 81 ; essential to the digestive powers of herbivorous quadru-peds, 81.

■ Principles, how supposed to enter the circulation, 70.

Bitterness in plants, what it indicates, 43.

Galen's notion respecting the cause of, 21

does not exclu-

sively reside in any peculiar principle, 81.

" Black Drop," an unscientific attempt to imitate it attended with explo-sion ! 186.

Black Wash, upon what its efficacy depends, 175.

Blackall, Dr. his important remarks on Diuretics, 155 ; his valuable workon dropsy, 99.

Blair, Dr. opinion of, concerning the botanical knowledge of the An-cients, 41, (Note.)

Blane, Sir Gilbert, his definition of the terra " sympathy," 70; his at-tempt to explain the sialogogue powers of Mercury, 111; his inge-nious hypothesis respecting the foetid breath of salivated persons,157, (Note) ; his remarks on medicinal activity, 69.

i: Blistering Point" of Dr. Kush, 114.

Blisters first proposed by Archigenes and Aretseus, 46.

Blisters, the primary and secondary effects of, considered, 113 ; cure in*flammation, through the influence of " contiguous sympathy," 114.

Blood Stone, or Heliotrope, its supposed powers,26.