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Curiosities of Medical Experience

Curiosities of Medical Experience

by J. G. Millingen

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Author
Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon), 1782-1862
Credits
E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( www.archive.org)
Language
English
LoC Class
R: Medicine
Subject
Medicine
Category
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eBook-No.
39074
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39074
Release Date
March 7, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org ) — CURIOSITIES OF MEDICAL EXPERIENCE.
  2. 2.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
  4. 4.OBESITY.
  5. 5.DWARFS.
  6. 6.GIGANTIC RACES.
  7. 7.UNLAWFUL CURES.
  8. 8.VOICE AND SPEECH.
  9. 9.ECSTATIC EXALTATION.
  10. 10.VARIETIES OF MANKIND.
  11. 11.ON THE INHUMATION OF THE DEAD IN CITIES.
  12. 12.BURIED ALIVE.
  13. 13.SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
  14. 14.BRASSICA ERUCA, OR THE ROCKET PLANT.
  15. 15.CAGLIOSTRO.
  16. 16.LUNAR INFLUENCE ON HUMAN LIFE AND DISEASES.
  17. 17.SPECTACLES.
  18. 18.LEECHES.
  19. 19.SOMNAMBULISM.
  20. 20.MEDICAL POWERS OF MUSIC.
  21. 21.THE FOOD OF MANKIND. ITS USE AND ABUSE.
  22. 22.INFLUENCE OF IMAGINATION.
  23. 23.ANCIENT IDEAS OF PHRENOLOGY.
  24. 24.PERFUMES.
  25. 25.LOVE PHILTERS AND POTIONS.
  26. 26.VENTRILOQUISM.
  27. 27.CHAUCER’S DESCRIPTION OF A PHYSICIAN. THE DOCTOR OF PHYSIC.
  28. 28.DÆMONOMANIA.
  29. 29.THE PLAGUE.
  30. 30.ABSTINENCE.
  31. 31.POISON OF THE UPAS, OR IPO.
  32. 32.HOMOPHAGOUS AND POLYPHAGOUS.
  33. 33.CAUSES OF INSANITY.
  34. 34.LEPROSY.
  35. 35.THE ASPIC.
  36. 36.SELDEN’S COMPARISON BETWEEN A DIVINE, A STATESMAN, AND A PHYSICIAN.
  37. 37.THE LETTUCE.
  38. 38.MEDICAL FEES.
  39. 39.ENTHUSIASM.
  40. 40.MEDICINAL EFFECTS OF WATER.
  41. 41.PROVERBS AND SAYINGS REGARDING HEALTH AND DISEASE.
  42. 42.THE NIGHT-MARE.
  43. 43.INCUBATION OF DISEASES.
  44. 44.QUACKERY AND CHARLATANISM.
  45. 45.ON THE USE OF TEA.
  46. 46.MANDRAGORE.
  47. 47.BARBER-SURGEONS, AND THE PROGRESS OF CHIRURGICAL ART.
  48. 48.ON DREAMS.
  49. 49.ON FLAGELLATION.
  50. 50.ON LIFE AND THE BLOOD.
  51. 51.OF THE HOMŒOPATHIC DOCTRINES.
  52. 52.DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES.
  53. 53.COFFEE.
  54. 54.AQUA TOPHANIA.
  55. 55.PLICA POLONICA AND HUMAN HAIR.
  56. 56.ANIMAL MAGNETISM.
  57. 57.POISONOUS FISHES.
  58. 58.MEMORY AND THE MENTAL FACULTIES.
  59. 59.AFFECTIONS OF THE SIGHT.
  60. 60.HELLEBORE.
  61. 61.SYMPATHIES AND ANTIPATHIES.
  62. 62.THE ARCHEUS OF VAN HELMONT.
  63. 63.MONSTERS.
  64. 64.LONGEVITY.
  65. 65.CRETINISM.
  66. 66.TEMPERAMENTS.
  67. 67.SOLAR INFLUENCE.
  68. 68.SWEATING FEVER.
  69. 69.SMALLPOX.
  70. 70.GENERATIVE ANIMALCULES.
  71. 71.CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.
  72. 72.DRUNKENNESS.
  73. 73.DECAPITATION.
  74. 74.MUMMIES.
  75. 75.HYDROPHOBIA.
  76. 76.ON THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE.
  77. 77.MEDICINE OF THE CHINESE.
  78. 78.EXPERIMENTS ON LIVING ANIMALS.

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