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INDEX.

Blood, viscidity ot the, a supposed cause of disease, 22; the red globole-of, formerly supposed to depend upon iron, 23.

•--------of a Gladiator, an ancient remedy in Epilepsy, 16.

--------of the Goat, curious conceit respecting, 47, (Note.)

Blood-vessels divided, substances enter. 72.

Bodies undergo decompositions in the stomach, independent of their or-dinary affinities, 56.

Boerhaave, a passage in, recommended to the attention of ProfessorBrande, 57; Boerhaave, Kaw, treatment of epileptics in the poor-house at Haerlem, 16.

Boorde Dr. Andrew, the origin of Merry Andrews, 33, (./Vote.)

Boracic acid, increases the purgative powers of Cream of Tartar, andwhy, 177.

Botanical science, its progress and uses, 41 ; its importance in reform-ing our nomenclature, 39.

Boyle recommends as a powerful remedy the thigh bone of an executedcriminal, 13.

Bracing and Relaxing, import of the terms, as applied to medicines, 22-

Brain, odour of alcohol recognised in the, 79 ; its influence not directlynecessary to the action of the heart, 134.

Brande, Mr. Professor, his attack upon the English Universities answer-ed, 104 ; his opinion respecting the red globules of the blood confirm-ed by Vauquelin, 23, (JVote.)

---------, Mr. E. his case of obstruction from the habitual use of magne-sia, 193; his account of an unscientific combination having producedmischief, 180.

Bread, crumb of, its value as a vehicle for pills, 200.

Breda, celebrated siege of, epidemic daring, cured by inspiring confi-dence, 1G.

Bride-cake, origin of Oae custom of, lb2.

Bree, Dr. his practice of combining Diaphoretics and Tonics, 169.

Brodie,Mr. his enlightened views respecting the operation of poisons, 132.

Brown, Dr. John, his system noticed, 24.

Brown Bread acts mechanically, and promotes" the peristaltic motions ofthe primae viae, 92.

Buffon, his opinion concerning the orign of wheat, 61.

Cabbage, the cultivated offspring of the Colewort, 62.

Cabinet of Materia Medica in possession of the College of Physicians, S.

Cactus Opuntia, or Indian fig, reddens the urine, 70, (JVote.)

Caesalpinus, the father of botanical system, 41, (JVote.)

Caloric, latent state of, symbolically represented by Vulcan, 45 ; free,,

symbolically represented by Vesta, 45.Calomel, speculations respecting the origin of the term, 40, (JVote.)----------and Antimony are mutually changed by combination with each

other, 173.Culpepper, Turner, and Lovel, the three Astrological herbarists of the

seventeenth century, 13.Gamboge, whv liable to affect the stomach, 177