CHARCOAL, fumes of, III. 36 CHERRY laurel-water, II. 400 dangerous use of, II. 402 CHILD-BEARING, 172—256 earliest and latest periods of, 256 premature, 257 protracted, 258 _see_ Parturition. CHILDREN, legitimacy of, 216—246 legitimation of, 218 supposititious, 219 identity of, 222 greatest number at a birth, 259 CHLORINE, II. 464 proposed use of, II. 253—272 CHOLERA, II. 155 spontanea, II. 156 accidentalis, II. 156—160 treatment of, II. 160 CHROMATE of potass, II. 243 CHURCHES, burial in, 92 CHURCH-YARDS overcharged, 93—96 exhumations in, 95 of Paris, 95 Dublin, 93 St. Margaret, 93 Dunkirk, 95 St. Denis, 97 St. Benoit, 97 CICUTA, II. 138 CITIES, cleanliness in, 91 CLASSIFICATION of poisons, II. 199 table, II. 207 CLEANLINESS in cities, 91—123 CLERKS, parish, corporation of, 144 CLIMACTERIC, grand, 182 disease, 193 CLITORIS, 207 enlarged, 286—288 CLOATHS, infected, should be burnt, 142 COCULUS Indicus, II. 203—207—423 effect of, on fish, II. 424 COFFINS, iron, 99 COLD, death by exposure to, II. 13—16—59 cases of, II. 60 effects of, II. 61 on the blood, II. 62 affusion, use of, II. 391 death of, infant by, III. 128 COLIC of Poitou, or saturnine, II. 340—344—346—358 Devonshire, _ib._ Derbyshire, II. 355 miners, _ib._ painters, _ib._ COLLEGE of Physicians, _see_ Physicians. of Surgeons, 54 its charters, 55—57 its powers, 56 its by-laws, 57 COLOCYNTH, II. 207—377 poisoning by, _ib._ COMBUSTION spontaneous, 402 of hay, 404 by friction, 403 by fermentation, 403—404 by chemical action, 403—406 turf, flax, hemp, rags, oatmeal, 404 bran, 405 of animal matter, 405 woollen stuffs, 406 by fixed oils, 110—406 cases of, 404—405—406—407 of cere cloth, 409 lamp black, 410 by black wad, _ib._ mineral acids, 411 pyrites, _ib._ quicklime, _ib._ spontaneous of human bodies, 412 authorities on, _ib._ cases of, 413—415 COMMISSIONERS of lunatics, 296 COMMISSION of lunacy, 295 misconduct of, 294—296 supercedeas of, 299 COMPOS or non-compos, 290 CONCEPTION, _see_ Impregnation. phenomena of, 230 false, 254 extra-uterine, 281 CONSANGUINITY, a bar to marriage, 168 physiological reason, _ib._ CONSENT, age of, 168—170 not necessary to impregnation, 436 CONSTABLE, physicians exempt from being, 18 when medical practitioners are exempt, and when not, 72 CONTAGION in factories, 90 from dead bodies, 95 questions on, 114 CONTAGIOUS diseases, 105 CONTUSIONS, II. 121