i. 279

S.

Snow, common depth in Pennsylvania, i. 91 Sweating described among the Indians of North-America, i. 22 Scarlatina anginosa of 1783 and 1784 described, i. 138 ----, additional observations on, i. 147 ----, prevented by gentle purges, i. 151 ----, cured by emetics in its forming state, i. 150 Salt, common, useful in the hæmoptysis, i. 192 ----, in destroying worms, i. 230 Sugar, useful in destroying worms, i. ibid. Spirits, ardent, their effects upon the human body and mind, i. 337 ----, diseases produced by them, i. 343 ----, their effects on property, i. 347 ----, substitutes for them, i. 353 ----, persons predisposed to their use, i. 360 ----, their influence upon the population of the United States, i. 364 Sweats, useful in the yellow fever of 1803, iv. 140 Salivation, its usefulness in the yellow fever of 1793, iii. 284 ----, ----, of 1794, iii. 411 ----, ----, of 1797, iv. 49 ----, ----, of 1798, iv. 81 Small-pox, new mode of inoculating for, i. 311

T.

Tetanus, its causes, i. 248 ----, its remedies when from wounds, i. 256 ----, ----, when from other causes, i. 259

W.

Winters, cold, in Pennsylvania, i. 76, 77, 79 Winds, common, in Pennsylvania, i. 90 Water, cold, disease from drinking it when the body is preternaturally heated, i. 184 Worms, natural to young children, and to young animals, i. 218 ----, intended, probably, to prevent disease, i. 219 ----, destroyed by medicines that act mechanically and chemically upon them, i. 128 Wounds, gun-shot, in joints, followed by death, i. 274

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