• A.
• Anthelmintics, i. 228
• Arsenic, a remedy for cancerous sores, i. 240
• Army of the United States, diseases of, i. 269
• ——, causes of, i. 272
• ——, remedies for, i. ibid.
• Agriculture, the practice of, recommended to country physicians, i. 388
• Age, old, observations on the state of the body and mind in, i. 427
• ——, its diseases, i. 446
• ——, ——, their remedies, i. 449
• Air, cool, its good effects in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. 279
• Association of ideas, its effects upon morals, ii. 45
• B.
• Barometer, its mean elevation in Philadelphia, i. 96
• Blisters, their efficacy in obstinate intermittents, i. 179
• ——, —— in the bilious fever of 1780, i. 128
• ——, —— in the yellow fever of 1803, when applied in its early stage, iv. 141
• Bed, lying in, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. 128
• Bleeding, its efficacy in the cure of obstinate intermittents, i. 179
• ——, —— in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. 253
• ——, reasons for the practice, iii. 254
• ——, circumstances which regulated it, iii. 261
• ——, objections to it answered, iii. 269
• ——, gradual manner of abstracting blood recommended, iii. 273
• Blood-letting, defence of it as a remedy for certain diseases, iv. 275
• ——, indicated in fevers, iv. ibid.
• ——, its good effects in fevers, iv. 277
• ——, objections to it answered, iv. 284
• ——, its comparative advantages, iv. 313
• ——, circumstances which should regulate its use, iv. 316
• ——, appearances of the blood, iv. 326
• ——, when forbidden, or to be used cautiously, iv. 344
• ——, its advantages in pregnancy, iv. 349
• ——, in parturition, iv. 353
• ——, during the cessation of the menses, iv. 356
• ——, in curing the disease induced by a large dose of opium, iv. 357
• ——, in curing the disease induced by poison, iv. ibid.
• ——, in diabetes, iv. ibid.
• Blood-letting, in dislocated bones, iv. 358
• Blood, quantity drawn from several persons in 1797, iv. 37
• ——, appearances of it in 1793, iii. 256
• ——, —— in 1794, iii. 404
• C.
• Civilization, diseases derived from it, i. 32
• ——, —— not necessarily connected with it, i. 60
• Climate of Pennsylvania, account of, i. 71
• ——, its changes, i. 76
• ——, its temperature, i. 78
• ——, its effects upon health and life, i. 108
• Calomel, useful joined with emetics in scarlatina anginosa, i. 144
• ——, its effects as a purge, when combined with jalap, in the yellow fever, iii. 241
• ——, objections to it answered, iii. 243402
• ——, good effects of cool air and cold water in, iii. 409
• ——, of a salivation, iii. 411
• ——, of blisters, iii. 413
• ——, of tonic remedies, iii. 415
• ——, of the inefficacy of bark, iii. ibid.
• ——, of the effects of wine, iii. 418
• ——, ——, of opium, iii. 419
• ——, ——, of nitre, iii. 421
• ——, ——, of antimonials, iii. ibid.
• Fever, yellow, sporadic cases of, in the years 1795 and 1796, iii. 437
• Fever, yellow, of 1797, iv. 3
• ——, symptoms of, iv. 13
• ——, type of, iv. 20
• ——, different forms of, iv. 21
• ——, influence of the moon upon it, iv. 27
• ——, number of deaths, particularly of physicians, iv. 30
• ——, origin of it, iv. 33
• ——, its remedies, iv. ibid.
• ——, of bleeding, iv. ibid.
• ——, of purging medicines, iv. 37
• ——, of a salivation, iv. 39
• ——, different ways in which mercury acted upon the mouth and throat, iv. 40
• ——, of emetics, iv. 44
• ——, of diet and drinks, iv. 45
• ——, of tonic remedies, iv. 49
• ——, of blisters, iv. 49
• ——, of sweet oil, iv. 51
• ——, relative success of different modes of practice, iv. 53
• ——, signs of a favourable and unfavourable issue of the fever, iv. 55
• Fever, yellow, of 1798, account of, iv. 67
• ——, symptoms of, iv. 68
• ——, in the blood-vessels, iv. ibid.
• ——, alimentary canal, iv. ibid.
• ——, on the tongue, iv. 69
• ——, in the nervous system, iv. ibid.
• ——, in the eyes, lymphatics, and blood, iv. 71
• ——, different modes in which it terminated in death, iv. 74
• ——, state of the weather in 1798, iv. 77
• ——, origin of the fever, iv. 78
• ——, remedies for it, iv. ibid.
• ——, bleeding, iv. ibid.
• ——, emetics, iv. 79
• ——, purges, iv. 81
• ——, of a salivation, iv. ibid.
• ——, of sweats, iv. 82
• ——, of bark, iv. 83
• ——, of blisters, iv. ibid.
• ——, symptoms which indicated a favourable and unfavourable issue of the disease, iv. 84
• ——, different modes of practice in this fever, and their different success, iv. 85
• Fever, bilious, of 1799, iv. 91
• —&# >——, their effects on property, i. 347
• ——, substitutes for them, i. 353
• ——, persons predisposed to their use, i. 360
• ——, their influence upon the population of the United States, i. 364
• Sweats, useful in the yellow fever of 1803, iv. 140
• Salivation, its usefulness in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. 284
• ——, ——, of 1794, iii. 411
• ——, ——, of 1797, iv. 49
• ——, ——, of 1798, iv. 81
• Small-pox, new mode of inoculating for, i. 311
• T.
• Tetanus, its causes, i. 248
• ——, its remedies when from wounds, i. 256
• ——, ——, when from other causes, i. 259
• W.
• Winters, cold, in Pennsylvania, i. 76, 77, 79
• Winds, common, in Pennsylvania, i. 90
• Water, cold, disease from drinking it when the body is preternaturally heated, i. 184
• Worms, natural to young children, and to young animals, i. 218
• ——, intended, probably, to prevent disease, i. 219
• ——, destroyed by medicines that act mechanically and chemically upon them, i. 128
• Wounds, gun-shot, in joints, followed by death, i. 274

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