Volume 2

Elements of medical logick, illustrated by practical proofs and examples / [Sir Gilbert Blane].

  • Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834.
Date:
1821
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    Seiad Seas : Mind, its constitution adapted to the laws of external na- ture, 18 ; particularity to their constancy, ibid, et seq. Motive principle, 93; inefficient without tension, 94; not to be accounted for on any mechanical principle, ibid. 243. N. Nature, the difficulty of appreciating the effects of, and of discriminating them from those of art, 195 ; knowledge of it banishes superstition, 159. Natural History, its great utility in perpetuating the know- Natural Philosophy, in its first application to medicine hurtful, 142. Navigation, an illustration taken from it, 264. Nervous System, its connection with the muscular system, 103; not necessary to life, 104; except where there is sensation and voluntary motion, ibid. | O. Observation, distinguished from experiment, 18; what con- stitutes it, 167. Old age very subject to Plethora, rendering bleeding neces- sary, 79; subject to salutary spontaneous hemorrhage,80. morrhage, 99, 102; its variety of effects in proof of the diversity of constitutions, 179. Oxygene, plays an interesting part in all the operations of Nature, 49. ie Philadelphia, yellow fever there, 228. —, his habits with respect to sleep, ibid. Physick, art of, in what it consists, 3; disparagement of it, 4; vindication of it, 5, et seq. Placenta being without nerves, these cannot be necessary to assimilation and growth, 62. Poisons, morbid, excite a self-healing fever, 80. The eli- mination of it not an object of practice, 150. Plague, can exist only under one range of temperature, 232. Portal found the heat of the body unchanged many hours after death from apoplexy, 45. Power, from whence we derive the idea of it, 23. Pressure, natural, its beneficial effects, 95. —, artificial, its beneficial effect, 96. haat el