Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge.

  • Ridge, Benjamin.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    107 Galvanism, its utility, 150. Ganglion, a small knot of nerves, and uses of, 22. Ganglionic system, 22-25, 33. Gaseists, new jwthologists, 10. Gases, vital, where generated, 9, 29 ; with the fluids and solids equally impor- tant, 10, 29 ; dilferent kinds of, 27 ; measurement of, 28. Gastric or stomach-acid, 20. Gelatine, component parts of, 28. Gennination of fever-poisons, 135. Glands, congestive condition of, 91, 92. Glossology, e.vplained, 48 ; will tend to more perfect agreement among doctors, 57 ; uueri ing in the diagnosis of disease, 147 ; its new principles, 182, Gout in men, 43 ; tre:itment of, 103. Government, its dietaries peniicious, 61 ; Sledical Board, its cruel and perni- cious orders, 117. Gradation of disease, 128, 134, 138. Gravitation of morbid elements produce specific disease, 154. Gullet, where situated, 4. H.'EMORRiiotDS, or piles, medicines for, 162, Hair, chemicjil constituents of, 26. Hal'd drinkers, 90. Harvey, his discoveries, 15-16. Head or skull, description of, 2; contents of, 5; uses of contents of, 19; divisions of, 54. Headaches, location of, 54-55, 85 ; apportioning of to jiarts of the body, 54- 55; vertex, peculi.ar to fenuiles, 55. Health and disease, 34. See also work on, 85. ■ vital balance of, 35. Heart, situation of, 4 ; division of, 15 ; its uses and duties, 15-19; shown on the tongue, 49-50 ; complaints, 85 ; diseases of, produce pains resembling rheumatism, 102. Heartburn, treatment of, 85. Heat or caloric, how evolveil, 18; importance of, 29. Hiccoughs, treatment of, 85. Hommojxithists, remarks on, 65, 147-148. Hospital practices, 75, 148. Hot and cold remedies adversely applied, 67-70. Hot applications, when necessary, 70. Humourai patliologists, 10. Ilybeniators, 30. lONon.tNCE of the public of their own bodies, 65. Infant apoplexies, 31. Infants, folly of giving them solid.«, 31 ; not to be wa.shed in cold water, 39 ; and their diseases, 169, 176 ; pre.scriptions for, 170-175 ; some mcdiciues should be given wann, 172, 174; their livers seldom out of order, 176. Infiltration or iujection exidaiiied, 77. Inflammation not always allied with p.-un, 62.