Chardin, extract from his Travels, 75
Chewing, 88
Children, effects of liquors on, 150, 243
Claret, the most wholesome of wines, 239
Clery, 104
Clutterbuck, Dr., his opinion of delirium tremens, 166
Cocculus Indicus, 99
Coffee useful in poisoning from opium, 129
Coke, Sir Edward, his judicial opinion, 190
Cold, effects of intense, 105
Coleridge, Mr., his case, 93
Collinson on Lunacy, extract from, 195
Combustion, spontaneous, 175
Commercial travellers addicted to intemperance, 31
Congee the drink of the natives of India, 220
Corpulency, 152
Darnel, 104
Darwin, Dr., averse to blooding in drunkenness, 121
his account of _psora ebriorum_, 146
opposes the sudden discontinuance of liquors, 198
Delirium tremens, 159
Demosthenes used cold water as a stimulus, 34
Desgenettes, observation by, 221
Digitalis, 99
Don Gio Maria Bertholi, case of, 181
Double vision, cause of, 114
Dreams, 171
Drunkard, choleric, 57
melancholy, 54
nervous, 57
periodical, 58
phlegmatic, 55
sanguineous, 52
surly, 55
Drunkards, sleep of, 170
spontaneous combustion of, 175
advice to inveterate, 236
Drunkenness, causes of, 28
modified by temperament, 52
modified by the inebriating agent, 61
physiology of, 111
method of curing the fit of, 120
pathology of, 132
judicially considered, 190
method of curing the habit of, 197
Dupuy, M., experiment by, 123
Ears, ringing in the, cause of, 116
Eason, Rebecca, inquest on her body, 79
Edgar, Professor, his account of Temperance Societies, 233
anecdote by, 253
Edgeworth, Mr., his case, 93
Eldon, Lord, case cited by, 195
Elevation of spirits, cause of, 116
Emaciation, 151
English regiment, anecdote of, 125
Epilepsy, 150
Ethers possess intoxicating properties, 104
Eyes, state of, 143
Flushing, cause of, 116
Fontenelle used coffee as a stimulus, 34
Gin, 25, 63
Good, Dr. Mason, a believer in spontaneous combustion, 186
Gordon, Duchess of, used opium, 72
Gout, 147
Grace Pitt, case of, 180
Grog, origin of the term, 238
Hair, state of, 146
Hales, Judge, his remarks on drunkenness, 167
rejects the plea of drunkenness, 191
Haller used cold water as a stimulus, 34
Hammer, Von, extract from his history of the Assassins, 101
Hannibal’s army ruined by intemperance, 22
Heart, palpitation of, 149
Heat and flushing, cause of, 116
Hemlock, 98
Hernandez de Toledo introduced tobacco into Europe, 80
Hibiscus Saldarissa, 27
Hislop, Sir Thomas, fact stated by, 220
Hobbes used tobacco as a stimulus, 34
Hop, 99
Hunter, Dr., experiments by, 243
Hyoscyamus, 101
Hysteria, 149
Inflammations, 147
Innocent, Pope, renewed Pope Urban’s bull, 81
James I., his “Counterblaste to Tobacco,” 82
Johnson, Dr., used tea as a stimulus, 34
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