Diseases of the Indians, i. 16 ----, from civilization, i. 30 ----, produced by ardent spirits, i. 343 ----, of the military hospitals, during the revolutionary war between Great-Britain and the United States, i. 269 ----, of old age, i. 446 Drunkenness, a fit of it described, i. 338 ----, remedies for it, i. 374 Disease, summer and autumnal, its sources, iv. 163 ----, means of preventing it in its malignant forms, iv. 173 ----, in its mild forms, iv. 198 ----, in its intestinal forms, iv. 200 ----, of preserving cities and communities from them, iv. 202 ----, of exterminating them, iv. 210 ----, from drinking cold water, i. 186 ----, ----, how prevented, i. ibid. ----, ----, its cure, i. 185 Dropsies, their causes, ii. 151 ----, divided into inflammatory, and of weak morbid action in the blood-vessels, ii. 157 ----, remedies for the inflammatory state of, ii. 160 ----, ----, with weak morbid action in the blood-vessels, ii. 176 Dropsy of the brain, internal, ii. 192 ----, its history, ii. 195 ----, its causes, ii. 203 ----, its cure, ii. 210 Distress, familiarity with it, its moral effects, ii. 46 Death, its proximate cause, ii. 447 E. Emetics, useful in the bilious fever of 1780, i. 186 ----, in the scarlatina anginosa of 1783 and 1784, i. 144 ----, in the yellow fever of 1798, iv. 79 ----, in the yellow fever of 1799, iv. 97 ----, hurtful in the yellow fever of 1797, iv. 44 Exhalations, putrid, their sources and effects in producing the summer and autumnal disease, iv. 163 F.