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Decoction frequently destroys the efficacy of medicinal bodies, 189.

Delivery expedited by nauseous medicines, 16, (note).

Demulcents, their supposed mode of operation, 142.

Deposites mechanical, from the urine, divisible into three classes, 122.

Derry-down, Druidical origin of the chorus of, 13.

Design of the Pharmacologia, 3.

Developement of active elements one of the objects of Pharmaceutic che-mistry, 175.

Devotion to authority, the mischievous tendency of, 27.

Diaphoretics, definition of, 101 ; a new classification of, proposed, 102 ;when combined with tonics offer resources in continued fever, 169 ;may cure dropsy, 104.

Diaphoresis, frequently follows nausea, 90.

Diarrhoea checked by remedies of a different nature, 85.

Dictator, his election and duties, during a pestilence in Rome, 16.

Diest's absurd preparation of opium, 28.

Diet and Habits, the importance of changing them in disease considered,162 ; important practical remarks upon, 163.

Diet Vegetable, the supposed refrigerating effect of, explained, 117.

Diffusible and permanent stimulants, 77.

Digby, SirKenelm, the " Sympathetic Powder" of, 14.

Digestion, sometimes quickened by the operation of an emetic, 89 ; howmaterially it is affected by mental disturbance, 162 ; imperfect, dis-eases arising from, how treated by the author, 163.

Digestive Functions, their influence upon certain remedies, 70.

Digitalis and Potass, although not similar as diuretics, are compatible witheach other, 168.

Digitalis, Dr. Mothering's observation respecting its accumulation in thesystem, 193 ; its utility exaggerated, 21 ; why it acts as a sorbefacient,100.

Digitalis and Mercury, dissimilar as diuretics, 154.

Digitalis and Verbascum, although medicinally opposed to each other, be-long to the same natural family, 42.

Diluents, their extensive use in the cure of disease, 143.

Dionysius of Mytilene, his explanation of the Golden Fleece of the Argo-nauts, 45.

Dioscorides, many of his plants not to be recognised in the present day,36 ; the Commentary of Mathiolus upon, passed through seventeeneditions ! 37, {Note).

Dirigens of ancient authors —184, (Note).

Discoveries in Materia Medica, rarely more than the revival of ancientpractices, 31.

Disease, its type and character altered by climate and season, 58.

Dispensatories of London and Edinburgh, their merits, 52, (Note).

Dispensatory of Wecker contains several preparations in which the mag-net is an ingredient, 24, (Note).

Distention, the stimulus of, increases the efficacy of emetics, 160.

Distillation, the operation of not noticed by Hippocrates or Galen, 45.

Division, the mechanical state of, modifies the operation of medicinal bo-dies, 178.

Diuretics, new views respecting their Modus operandi, f)5 ; definition of

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