Chapter M

Midwifery, the practice of it more successful by men than by women,
i. 53
Manufactures, sedentary, unfriendly to the health of men, i. 65
Measles, history of, in 1789, ii. 338
----, their symptoms, ii. 339
----, a spurious, or external form of them described, ii. 342
----, remedies used in them, ii. 346
----, history of them, as they appeared in 1801, iv. 117
Medicine, an inquiry into its comparative state, in Philadelphia,
between 1760 and 1766, and 1805, iv. 365
Diet of the inhabitants between 1760 and 1766, iv. 366
Dresses, iv. 368
Customs which had an influence on health, iv. 369
Diseases, iv. 370

N.

Nature, meaning of the term, i. 35
----, the extent of her powers in curing diseases, i. 20
Nosology, objections to it, iii. 33
Negroes subject to the yellow fever in common with the white people,
iii. 366

O.

Opium, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. 130
----, the disease induced by it cured by blood-letting, iv. 357
Onion juice, useful in destroying worms, i. 231

P.

Philadelphia, its situation, i. 74
----, population, i. 76
----, diseases between 1760 and 1766, and 1805, iv. 365
Purges, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. 127
----, ----, in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. 231
----, objections to them answered, iii. 243
Pulse, state of, in old people, i. 439
----, in the yellow fever of 1793, in persons not confined with it,
iii. 157
----, in fevers, when it indicates blood-letting, iv. 316
Putrefaction, does not take place in the blood, iii. 43
Pregnancy, a morbid state of the system, iv. 349
----, effects of blood-letting in relieving its diseases, iv. ibid.
Parturition, a disease, iv. 353
----, effects of blood-letting in lessening its pains, iv. ibid.

Q.

Quarantine laws, their inefficacy to prevent a yellow fever, iv. 218
----, their evils, iv. ibid.

R.

Rain, usual quantity in Pennsylvania, i. 72
Revolution, American, its influence upon the human body and mind,
i. 279

S.

Snow, common depth in Pennsylvania, i. 91
Sweating described among the Indians of North-America, i. 22
Scarlatina anginosa of 1783 and 1784 described, i. 138
----, additional observations on, i. 147
----, prevented by gentle purges, i. 151
----, cured by emetics in its forming state, i. 150
Salt, common, useful in the hæmoptysis, i. 192
----, in destroying worms, i. 230
Sugar, useful in destroying worms, i. ibid.
Spirits, ardent, their effects upon the human body and mind, i. 337
----, diseases produced by them, i. 343
----, 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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