Obesity 1 Dwarfs 9 Gigantic Races 12 Unlawful Cures 19 Voice and Speech 32 Ecstatic Exaltation 37 Varieties of Mankind 44 On the Inhumation of the Dead in Cities 54 Buried Alive 63 Spontaneous Combustion 66 Brassica Eruca 70 Cagliostro 71 Lunar Influence on Human Life and Diseases 73 Spectacles 76 Leeches 77 Somnambulism 79 Medical Powers of Music 88 The Food of Mankind 96 Influence of Imagination 125 Ancient Ideas of Phrenology 135 Perfumes 136 Love Philters and Potions 141 Ventriloquism 148 Chaucer's Description of a Physician 151 Daemonomania 152 The Plague 164 Abstinence 185 Poison of the Upas, or Ipo 190 Homophagous and polyphagous 196 Causes of Insanity 202 Leprosy 221 The Aspic 227 Selden's Comparison between a Divine, a Statesman, and a Physician 229 The Lettuce 230 Medical Fees 231 Enthusiasm 237 Medical effects of Water 252 Proverbs and Sayings regarding Health and Disease 259 The Night-mare 262 Incubation of Diseases 266 Quackery and Charlatanism 269 On the use of Tea 277 Mandragore 281 Barber-Surgeons, and the Progress of Chirurgical Art 285