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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

INTRODUCTION.

OBESITY.

DWARFS.

GIGANTIC RACES.

UNLAWFUL CURES.

VOICE AND SPEECH.

ECSTATIC EXALTATION.

VARIETIES OF MANKIND.

ON THE INHUMATION OF THE DEAD IN CITIES.

BURIED ALIVE.

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.

BRASSICA ERUCA, OR THE ROCKET PLANT.

CAGLIOSTRO.

LUNAR INFLUENCE ON HUMAN LIFE AND DISEASES.

SPECTACLES.

LEECHES.

SOMNAMBULISM.

MEDICAL POWERS OF MUSIC.

THE FOOD OF MANKIND. ITS USE AND ABUSE.

INFLUENCE OF IMAGINATION.

ANCIENT IDEAS OF PHRENOLOGY.

PERFUMES.

LOVE PHILTERS AND POTIONS.

VENTRILOQUISM.

CHAUCER'S DESCRIPTION OF A PHYSICIAN. THE DOCTOR OF PHYSIC.

DAEMONOMANIA.

THE PLAGUE.

ABSTINENCE.

POISON OF THE UPAS, OR IPO.

HOMOPHAGOUS AND POLYPHAGOUS.

CAUSES OF INSANITY.

LEPROSY.

THE ASPIC.

SELDEN'S COMPARISON BETWEEN A DIVINE, A STATESMAN, AND A PHYSICIAN.

THE LETTUCE.

MEDICAL FEES.

ENTHUSIASM.

MEDICINAL EFFECTS OF WATER.

PROVERBS AND SAYINGS REGARDING HEALTH AND DISEASE.

THE NIGHT-MARE.

INCUBATION OF DISEASES.

QUACKERY AND CHARLATANISM.

ON THE USE OF TEA.

MANDRAGORE.

BARBER-SURGEONS, AND THE PROGRESS OF CHIRURGICAL ART.

ON DREAMS.

ON FLAGELLATION.

ON LIFE AND THE BLOOD.

OF THE HOMOEOPATHIC DOCTRINES.

DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES.

COFFEE.

AQUA TOPHANIA.

PLICA POLONICA AND HUMAN HAIR.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM.

POISONOUS FISHES.

MEMORY AND THE MENTAL FACULTIES.

AFFECTIONS OF THE SIGHT.

HELLEBORE.

SYMPATHIES AND ANTIPATHIES.

THE ARCHEUS OF VAN HELMONT.

MONSTERS.

LONGEVITY.

CRETINISM.

TEMPERAMENTS.

SOLAR INFLUENCE.

SWEATING FEVER.

SMALLPOX.

GENERATIVE ANIMALCULES.

CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.

DRUNKENNESS.

DECAPITATION.

MUMMIES.

HYDROPHOBIA.

ON THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE.

MEDICINE OF THE CHINESE.

EXPERIMENTS ON LIVING ANIMALS.

Title: Curiosities of Medical Experience

Author: J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Language: English

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CURIOSITIES
OF
MEDICAL EXPERIENCE.

By J. G. MILLINGEN, M.D., M.A.
SURGEON TO THE FORCES; RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM AT HANWELL;
MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE ANCIENT FACULTY OF PARIS;
OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF BORDEAUX; AND AUTHOR OF
“THE ARMY MEDICAL OFFICER’S MANUAL,” &c.

SECOND EDITION.

REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY AUGMENTED.

IN ONE VOLUME.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1839.

WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.

TO
SIR JAMES M’GRIGOR, Bart.
M.D., F.R.S., K.T.S., &c. &c.
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,
TO WHOSE ZEAL AND EXAMPLE THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY’S
FORCES ARE SO MUCH INDEBTED FOR THAT DISTINGUISHED
CHARACTER AND CONSIDERATION THEY COLLECTIVELY
AND INDIVIDUALLY HOLD IN THE ESTIMATION
OF THE EUROPEAN ARMIES,
THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED,
AS A TESTIMONIAL OF PUBLIC RESPECT AND
SINCERE PRIVATE ESTEEM,

BY THE AUTHOR.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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