LEGITIMACY, 216—246 LEGITIMATION of children, 218 _LEPROSO amovendo_, writ _de_, 86 LETTUCE, II. 207 LEUCORRHŒA, 418 LIABILITIES, medical, 72 LICENTIATES, litigations of, 41—46—50 LICENCE, partial, 48 LIGHTNING, death by, II. 63 returning stroke of, II. 66 precautions during, II. 66 LIKENESS, dangers of trusting to, 221 LILLY, Wm., the Astrologer, licenced, 13 LIME kiln, when a nuisance, 351 a poison, II. 202 vapour of, III. 36 LIME water, effect of, on arsenic, II. 249 effect of, on sublimate, II. 271 tartar emetic, II. 284 quick, II. 325 poisoning by, _ib._ tests of, II. 326 LINACRE, Dr. Thomas, 6 LITHARGE, II. 351—359 adulteration of wine by, II. 346 LIVES, insurance on, 381 LIVER, examination of the, III. 65 ruptured, _ib._ LOCAL circumstances, or habit, when important, III. 27 LOCHIA, 252 LOCUSTA, poisons of, II. 133—139 LONDON, City of, not to be prejudiced, 17 practice in, 16 extent of buildings in, 349 LOURLULARY, or Lourgary, 350 LUCID intervals, 299 difficulty of ascertaining, 322 LUNAR caustic, a test for arsenic, II. 240 LUNACY in criminal cases, III. 131 LUNATIC may contract marriage, and how, 171 LUNATICS, 289 access to, 294 commission, 295 committee of the person, 297 estate, 298 comfort of, the first object, 298 recovery of, 299—323 mode of examining, 318 suicide by, II. 105—107 supposed legal remedy of, 294 asylums, 304 commissions for visiting, 304 LUNGS, examination of the, III. 53 of infant, examination of, III. 109 weight of, III. 117 functions of the, II. 17 appearance of, in cases of narcotic poisoning, II. 394 LUTEA, corpora, III. 70 LUTE, fire, composition of, II. 234 M MACLEAN, Dr. C. on the Plague, 110 MADNESS, 289 _see_ Insanity. MAGGOTS, death by, II. 453 _MALA praxis_, punishment of, 38 death by, II. 467 MALTA, plague of 1813, 130 MANHOOD, 193 MANIA, 311 _See_ Insanity. hereditary, 173—186 MANDAMUS, Dr. _Letch’s_, 42 Dr. _Fothergill’s_, 50 Dr. _Archer’s_, 50 MANNERS, change of its influence on health, 88 MANSLAUGHTER, II. 2 MANUFACTORIES, diseases in, 89 MARRIAGE, 168 who may contract, _ib._ parties to, must be _habiles ad matrimonium_, 170 must be _habiles ad consensus_, 171 idiot cannot contract, 171 deaf and dumb can, _ib._ lunatic may and how, _ib._ ancient laws of, 172 nullity of, 176 MECONIC acid, II. 385—387 MEDICAL practitioners, exemptions and liabilities of, 72 MEDICINES, patent, abuse of, 40 dangerous, sale of, 140 MELANCHOLIA, 312—320 _MELIUS inquirendum_ in lunacy, 296 MEMBERS of the College of Physicians, who are, 41—45 MENORRHAGIA, 255 MENSES, 187—232 peculiarity of the discharge, 187 cessation of, 194