But in vain will the avenues of death from those diseases be closed, while the more deadly yellow fever is permitted to supply their place, and to spread terror, distress, and poverty through the city, by destroying the lives of her citizens by hundreds or thousands every year. Dear cradle of liberty of conscience in the western world! nurse of industry and arts! and patron of pious and benevolent institutions! may this cease to be thy melancholy destiny! May Heaven dispel the errors and prejudices of thy citizens upon the cause and means of preventing their pestilential calamities! and may thy prosperity and happiness be revived, extended, and perpetuated for ages yet to come! * * * * * INDEX. A Anthelmintics, i. 228 Arsenic, a remedy for cancerous sores, i. 240 Army of the United States, diseases of, i. 269 ----, causes of, i. 272 ----, remedies for, i. ibid. Agriculture, the practice of, recommended to country physicians, i. 388 Age, old, observations on the state of the body and mind in, i. 427 ----, its diseases, i. 446 ----, ----, their remedies, i. 449 Air, cool, its good effects in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. 279 Association of ideas, its effects upon morals, ii. 45 B. Barometer, its mean elevation in Philadelphia, i. 96 Blisters, their efficacy in obstinate intermittents, i. 179 ----, ----, in the bilious fever of 1780, i. 128 ----, ----, in the yellow fever of 1803, when applied in its early stage, iv. 141 Bed, lying in, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. 128 Bleeding, its efficacy in the cure of obstinate intermittents, i. 179 ----, ----, in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. 253 ----, reasons for the practice, iii. 254 ----, circumstances which regulated it, iii. 261 ----, objections to it answered, iii. 269 ----, gradual manner of abstracting blood recommended, iii. 273 Blood-letting, defence of it as a remedy for certain diseases, iv. 275 ----, indicated in fevers, iv. ibid. ----, its good effects in fevers, iv. 277 ----, objections to it answered, iv. 284 ----, its comparative advantages, iv. 313 ----, circumstances which should regulate its use, iv. 316 ----, appearances of the blood, iv. 326 ----, when forbidden, or to be used cautiously, iv. 344 ----, its advantages in pregnancy, iv. 349 ----, in parturition, iv. 353 ----, during the cessation of the menses, iv. 356 ----, in curing the disease induced by a large dose of opium, iv. 357 ----, in curing the disease induced by poison, iv. ibid. ----, in diabetes, iv. ibid. ----, in dislocated bones, iv. 358 Blood, quantity drawn from several persons in 1797, iv. 37 ----, appearances of it in 1793, iii. 256 ----, ----, in 1794, iii. 404 C.