Chapter D

Diseases of the Indians, i. 16
----, from civilization, i. 30
----, produced by ardent spirits, i. 343
----, of the military hospitals, during the revolutionary war between
Great-Britain and the United States, i. 269
----, of old age, i. 446
Drunkenness, a fit of it described, i. 338
----, remedies for it, i. 374
Disease, summer and autumnal, its sources, iv. 163
----, means of preventing it in its malignant forms, iv. 173
----, in its mild forms, iv. 198
----, in its intestinal forms, iv. 200
----, of preserving cities and communities from them, iv. 202
----, of exterminating them, iv. 210
----, from drinking cold water, i. 186
----, ----, how prevented, i. ibid.
----, ----, its cure, i. 185
Dropsies, their causes, ii. 151
----, divided into inflammatory, and of weak morbid action in the
blood-vessels, ii. 157
----, remedies for the inflammatory state of, ii. 160
----, ----, with weak morbid action in the blood-vessels, ii. 176
Dropsy of the brain, internal, ii. 192
----, its history, ii. 195
----, its causes, ii. 203
----, its cure, ii. 210
Distress, familiarity with it, its moral effects, ii. 46
Death, its proximate cause, ii. 447

E.

Emetics, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. 186
----, in the scarlatina anginosa of 1783 and 1784, i. 144
----, in the yellow fever of 1798, iv. 79
----, in the yellow fever of 1799, iv. 97
----, hurtful in the yellow fever of 1797, iv. 44
Exhalations, putrid, their sources and effects in producing the
summer and autumnal disease, iv. 163

F.

Faculty, moral, inquiry into the influence of physical causes on, ii. 3
Fruits, summer, useful in destroying worms, i. 229
Fever, bilious, history of it in 1780, i. 117
----, outlines of a theory of, iii. 3
----, its unity asserted, iii. 17
----, unity of its exciting causes, iii. 16
----, objections to a nosological arrangement of its different
forms, iii. 33
----, effects of, iii. 39
----, different states of, enumerated, iii. 41
----, objections to putrefaction in, iii. 43
----, bilious yellow, history of, in 1793, iii. 69
----, ----, its exciting causes, iii. 88
----, ----, its premonitory signs, iii. 93
----, ----, its first symptoms, iii. 95
----, ----, symptoms of it in the blood-vessels, iii. 97
----, ----, ----, in the liver, lungs, and brain, iii. 104
----, ----, ----, in the stomach and bowels, iii. 108
----, ----, ----, in the secretions and excretions, iii. 110
Fever, bilious yellow, symptoms of it, in the nervous system, iii. 116
----, ----, ----, in the senses and appetites, iii. 122
----, ----, ----, in the lymphatic and glandular system, iii. 124
----, ----, ----, on the skin, iii. 125
----, ----, ----, in the blood, iii. 128
----, ----, nature of the black vomit, iii. 111
----, ----, types of the, iii. 135
----, ----, the empire of, over all other diseases, iii. 139
----, ----, who most subject to it, iii. 148
----, ----, negroes affected by it in common with white people,
iii. 151
----, ----, state of the atmosphere during the prevalence of, iii. 158
----, ----, signs of the presence of miasmata in the body,
universal, iii. 157
----, ----, cases of re-infection, iii. 164
----, ----, external appearances of the body after death in, iii. 165
----, ----, appearances of the body by dissection, iii. 167
----, ----, account of the distress of the city, iii. 175
----, ----, its moral effects upon the inhabitants, iii. 179
----, ----, number of deaths from it, iii. 181
----, ----, is checked and destroyed by rain, iii. 184
----, ----, inquiry into its origin by the governor of the
state, iii. 196
----, ----, said to be imported by the college of physicians, iii. 197
----, ----, objections to their opinion, and proofs of its domestic
origin, iii. 198
----, the sameness of its origin with the plague, iii. 211
----, state of the weather in 1793, iii. 215
----, method of cure, iii. 223
----, dissentions of the physicians, iii. 235
----, of purging, iii. 239
----, its salutary effects, iii. 241
----, objections to it answered, iii. 243
----, blood-letting, its utility, iii. 253
----, salivation, its utility, iii. 284
----, convalescence, iii. 289
----, remarks on the use of stimulating remedies in this fever,
iii. 292
----, comparative view of the success of all the modes of practice
employed in the fever, iii. 298
Fever, yellow, of 1794, history of, iii. 357
----, its exciting causes, iii. 367
----, symptoms in the different systems of the body, iii. 369
----, in the blood-vessels, iii. ibid.
----, in the viscera, iii. 371
----, in the alimentary canal, iii. 373
----, in the secretions and excretions, iii. 375
----, in the nervous system, iii. 379
----, in the senses and appetites, iii. 383
----, in the lymphatic system, iii. ibid.
----, in the blood, iii. 387
----, different forms of the fever, iii. 388
----, its origin, iii. 397
----, method of cure, iii. 401
----, bleeding, iii. 402
Fever, yellow, of 1794, 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. ibid.
----, of sweet oil, iv. 51
Fever, yellow, of 1797, 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
----, sickliness among certain animals, iv. 94
----, its symptoms, iv. 95
----, its remedies, iv. 97
Fever, yellow, of 1799, signs of a favourable and unfavourable issue of
it, iv. 99
----, its origin, iv. 100
Fever, yellow, sporadic cases of, in 1800, iv. 103
----, ----, in 1801, iv. 111
Fever, yellow, of 1802, account of, iv. 123
----, its origin, iv. 123
----, its types, iv. 127
Fever, yellow, as it appeared in 1803, iv. 133
----, symptoms of, iv. 136
----, remedies for, iv. 139
Fever, yellow, sporadic cases in 1804, iv. 147
Fever, yellow, as it appeared in 1805, iv. 153
----, its origin, iv. 155
----, its remedies, iv. 156
----, not contagious, iv. 223

G.

Gout, peculiarities belonging to it, ii. 227
----, its remote causes, ii. 230
----, women most subject to it, ii. 232
----, its exciting causes, ii. ibid.
----, its symptoms, ii. 234
----, method of cure, ii. 251
----, remedies in its forming state, ii. 253
----, in a paroxysm, when attended with great morbid or inflammatory
action in the blood-vessels, ii. 252
----, when attended with weak morbid action in the blood-vessels,
ii. 269
----, remedies for its symptoms, ii. 275
----, means for preventing the return of inflammatory, ii. 285
----, with weak morbid action, ii. 293

H.

Hospitals, their origin, i. 55
----, military, their evils, i. 276
----, constructed with ground floors, to be preferred in fevers, i. 275
Heat, greatest in Philadelphia, i. 87
Habit, its effects upon morals, ii. 43
Hæmoptysis, observations on, i. 191
Hydrophobia, observations on, ii. 301
----, its causes, ii. 302
----, its symptoms in rabid animals, ii. 306
----, ----, in the human species, ii. 308
----, supposed to be a malignant fever, ii. ibid.
----, remedies to prevent it, ii. 315
----, ----, to cure it in its malignant or inflammatory state, ii. 317
----, ----, to cure it when attended with weak morbid action in the
blood-vessels, ii. 323
----, death from it, supposed to be from suffocation, ii. 326
----, laryngotomy suggested to prevent it, ii. 332