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Ears, motion of their mufcles explained, 79—81
.... — their fympathy with the teeth and other parts, 496
Eel, the motion of its heart, ée- after death or reparation from the body, 184, 186. 192,
195
Effluvia of certain fubRances communicate new life and vigour to the body, 493
Elettricity, a remarkable uneafinefs felt through the whole body by it, 539
------a palfy cured by it, 483—486
Emplafirum defe?ißvu7n, an immoderate flux of pale urine cured by it, 708. 709
Epicurus, his opinion of the foul, 148
Epilepfy, infectious, 134
-- a remarkable cure of one, by Boerhaave, 581. 582
Ereflion, See Penis.
Evacuations, the retention of accuRomed ones, a caufe of nervous difeafes, 564—567
Excrements, their dejedtion accounted' for, 91
Exercife, utility of it in nervous complaints, 642. 643
.-----riding the beR fpecies of it, 642. 676
Expiration, does not depend on the mind, 99. 100, See Lungs, Refpiration-
Extremities. See Hand, Feet.
Eyes, the effects of light on them, 99
,_— fore ones infectious, 134. 583
>... — objedts may be painted on the retina, without our being confcious of them, 154
—-- why fpirit of wine, <&c. inflames them, 230
why a poultice, &c. lefiens an inflammation in them, 230
«_ why acrid fubRances, or paffions of the mind, make the tears flow, 231, 232
__. their glazed appearance in an apoplexy accounted for, 233
__ fympathy betwixt them and other organs, 495. 496
Eye-brows, a pain fometimes felt above them after fmelling to volatile faits or eating muftard,
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Eye-lids, their motion fometimes voluntary, fometimes involuntary, 149
F.
fallcpiana tuba, become rigid when the vagina is titillated, 58
*— ----- their extremities in time of coition turn towards the ovaria, 58
Fear, often brings on a fudden flow of pale urine, 134
• - why it produces trembling, debility, palpitation of the heart, été, 519. 58^
«---- epileptic fits cured by it, 58F. 582. 689. 690
Feet, their fympathy with other parts, 901
«- convulfions occafloned by tickling their foies, 907, 912
Feneßra ovalis. See Ear, Tympanum.
Fevers, fliivering in them accounted for, 987
• -- regular intermittent one, mofl properly nervous, 987
Fibres, their diflenfion co-operates with fiimulim producing motion in the mufcles, 4,8-
«..........— rendered lefs fenflble by opium, 49
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