Chapter L

Laudanum, its efficacy in the disease brought on by drinking cold water
in hot weather, i. 185
Legs, sore, observations on, i. 411
----, classes of people most subject to them, i. 412
----, their remedies, i. 416
Longevity, circumstances which favour it, i. 428
Life, animal, inquiry into its causes, ii. 371
----, a forced state, or the effects of impressions, ii. 377
----, enumeration of those impressions, ii. 378
----, how supported in sleep, ii. 397
----, in the f[oe]tus in utero, ii. 404
----, in infancy, ii. 405
----, in youth, ii. 409
----, in middle life, ii. 410
----, in old age, ii. ibid.
----, in persons blind, or deaf and dumb from their birth, ii. 414
----, in idiots, ii. 416
----, after long abstinence, ii. 417
----, in asphyxia, ii. 419
----, in the Indians of North-America, ii. 427
----, in the Africans, ii. 428
----, in the Turkish empire, ii. 429
----, in China and the East-Indies, ii. 431
----, in the poor inhabitants of Europe, ii. 432
----, stimuli which act alike in promoting it upon all nations, ii. 434
----, how supported in sundry animals, ii. 441
----, its extinction in death, how effected, ii. 447