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•FROM-THE-FUND-BEQUEATHED-BY
THE
Part 1. — Comprising — Health and Disease Health, Phenomena of
Disease, Nature of . . .
Caused of Disease, External, not Internal
Intermittent Fever, the Type of all Disease
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Sleep, an Intermittent Palsy of the Nerves of the Five Senses 13 Death, a- Permanent Palsy of every Organic Perception . 14 Aphonia or Loss of Voice, Cases of, Cured by Quinine . 19 Palsy, Cases of, successfully treated by Hydrocyanic Acid, &c. 21 Curved Spine, Nature of with Case . . .26
Squint, Mode of Cure . . . . .28
Amaurosis, Case of Cure of, by Hydrocyanic acid . 29
Deafness, Remittent Nature of . . . .30
Ansesthesia, or Loss of the Sense of Touch . . 31
Tic Douleuroux, Cases of, Cured by Quinine . . 32
Excessive Appetite, Case of . . . .34
Thirst, its nature ...... 34
Spasmodic Stricture, Case of. Cured by Quinine . 37
Spitting of Blood ...... 88
Disease of Heart, Case of, successfully treated . . 44
Difficulty of Breathing, Case of, Cured by Quinine . 46 Stethoscope, Value of . . . . .50
Continued Fever, so called, nature of . . .53
Consumption, nature of, with Cases . . .55^
Gout— its nature — Rheumatism . . . .61
Stone — How Formed ..... 62
Tumors — How Developed . . , . 64
Eruptive Diseases . . . . .67
Yellow Fever— Jaundice . . , . .72
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Inflammation
Hysteria and Hypochondria
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Diseases of Females
Pregnancy
Parturition
Abortion, Prevention of .
Part II. — Comprising — Remedies and their Mode of Act
ion 89
By the Senses . . . .
By the Passions . . . .
Baths, Cold Affusion
. 101
Mineral Waters . . .
. 102
Exercise, Change of Air .
. 103
Plasters, Bandages . ..^
. 107
Medicine and Poison, Identical
. 110
Emetics
. 114
Purgatives
Mercury
. 119
Peruvian Bark, Quinine
. 124
Prussic Acid
. 130
Tar, Creosote
. 135
Opium, Morphia
. 136
Alcohol
. 138
. 139
Sulphur
. 139
Colchicum, Guaiac, Turpentine, Copaiba, Cubebs, Cantl
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rides, Squill, Digitalis, Iodine, the
Mineral Acids,
the
Earths, the Alcalis, and their Combinations .
. 140
Strychnia, Brucine
. 143
Silver
Copper .
. 147
Iron
Lead
. 149
Arsenic
. 152
Bloodletting
. 160
Abstinence
Conclusion
. 188
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