Blisters, their evils, 94, 95, 96 Carpue, Dr., 239 Case of deafness cured, 217 Cures, homoeopathic, iv, vii, ix, xi, xvii, 6 Death, science strong in, 373 Diet, hints on, 41, 112, 192, 271 Disease, Physiognomy of, Dislocation, extender for reducing, 32 Case, Martha Davis, Skin eruption, 77 Dorking fowls, 51 Case of sight restored, 218 Case, J. Wilson, Skin eruption, 77 Casts and Skulls, authentication of, 24 Change, Man's power of arresting, 2 Chest Affections transmissible, 78 Clarke, G. Esq., 70, 168 Clarke on education, 253 Claudian family, 193 Cleverness not Wisdom, 239 Coal, formation of, 8 Drunkenness, hereditary, 158 Edinburgh Medical Journal on the deaf Education, loose papers on, 70 Epps, Mr. James, on light influencing Epps, Dr., Scientific character of homo- Epps, Mr. G. N., on Dislocations, 30 Erysipelas, by Dr. Mackin, 96 Essays on Phrenology, by Dr. Gall, 123, Ditto on Physic, 337 Essay on homœopathy, 60 Coal-beds, Europe, America, and Asia, 8 Faculties of man and animals, 244 Family likenesses, 44 and 53 Cold Water Cure, the use and misuse Fatness transmissible, 49 of, 142 Colles on Hernia, 223 Combe on homœopathy, 379 Fever, homoeopathic treatment of, 349 Frederick, the Great, 47 Conolly, Dr., Lectures on Insanity by, Gillam, murderer of Maria Bagnell, 25 137 Coral Islands, 6 Coral Reefs, 6 Good, Dr. Mason, 74, 75, 76 Golding Bird, Dr., 220 Grecian form of beauty transmitted, 46 Corn law, 190 Cravats, 392 Cruikshanks, 44 Gregory, Dr., on scarlatina, 37 Gregory, Dr. James, 193, 194 Guise, Duke de, 194 Hahnemann, 17, 35, 141 Harvey, Dr. A., 141 Hernia, bleeding in strangulated, 223 Lancet, Editor, advice to, 407 Letter to Thomas Wakley, Esq., 65 Linnæus, 18, 20 Homœopathy, scientific and practical, 17 Longevity transmissible, 48 Homœopathic hospitals, &c., 111 Horses, Flemish and Arab, 43 Hops, 21 Louis Philippe, 358 Macilwain, Mr., on hernia, 223 Macauley, Miss, letter on phrenology Homœopathic treatment of cholera, 141 Manchester Times, letter to, by Dr. Homœopathy in Canada, 146 Epps, 191 Homœopathic medicines, power of, 147 Mayo, Dr., record of cases, 33 Ditto, Association, 160 Ditto, 172 Homœopathy, diffusion of, 190 Homœopathy, Dr. Golding Bird and, 220 Homeopathy in Africa, 342 Martineau, Miss, 385 Medical Gazette, cases of erysipelas, 33 | Medical men, their prejudices, 264 Medical profession, present state of, 199 Horsell, Mr., hydropathy for the people Mercury, effects of, 64, 180, 181 by, 142 Howitt, William, 49 Increase, how to gain, 4 Increase, original mode of, 41 Insanity, transmission of, 153 Jacob, 46 Jersey, noble families of, 356 Keating, Mr., 5 Metcalfe, Lord, 146 Mule animals, 43 Mule birds, 43 Napoleon, likeness to, 45 Nero, 194 Nervous system, 163 O'Connell, forefathers of, long-lived, 48 Offspring modified by parents, 1, 17, 41, 73, 113, 153, 193, 233, 313, 353 Kidneys, inflammation of, induced by Old system practice, 223, 233, 257, 289 Persecution of true opinions, 335 Ditto, essay on, by Dr. E. Barlow, 13 Sheep, Leicester, 49 Sheep, Cheviot, 49 Sight restored by dental treatment, 218 Skin, eruption of, 77 Phrenological thoughts on education, 168 Smyth, Dr. George, 257 Phrenology, essays on, by Dr. Gall, 123, Souvay, the dwarf, 48 161, 201, 241, 281, 321, 361 Space, its vastness, 4 Physician, instructions to patients con- Spain, Noblesse of, 356 Physiognomy, truth has its own, 131 Priests, impositions of, 21 Professed thinkers, a word to, 270 Professor Henderson, 271 Quagga, 46, 47 Review, 65, 101, 142, 345, 374 Right of a man to the honour and bene- fit of his written thoughts, 54 Sand-hills in Cornwall, 7 Ditto in Hebrides, 7 Ditto in Netherlands, 7 Specifics, all medicines, 111 Theft, hereditary disposition to, 195 Ditto of dumbness, 75 Ditto of arrangement of teeth, 76 Tulips, beauty and value of, 22 Vaccination, protective influence of, 273 327 Scarlet fever, treatment of, by Dr. Mor- Vegetable kingdom, laws of, 17 ton, 37 Scarlet fever, case of, 221 Wealth, change arrested, 2 Science, the want of, in treating disease, Wisdom and books, thoughts on, 212 32 Scrofula, its transmission, 113 Shakespeare, countenance of, 50 Wollaston, Dr., 47 World, changes of, 1 THE Journal of Health and Disease. JULY, 1845. PHYSIOLOGY IN REGARD TO THE LAWS OF INCREASE, AND THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTS ON OFFSPRING. CHAPTER I. SECTION I.-Change characteristic of all terrestrial objects.-Man's power of arresting change.-Wealth, wherein consisting.-Change, nature's law.Two problems, Given change, how to gain increase; and, given increase, how to gain bettering.-Spots from the sun's disc.-Coral islands.-Raised beaches.-Petrified trees.-Beattie's Minstrel.-Sand hills.-Desert sands.Sand rocks.-Formation of coal. THIS world is a world of change. Philosophers declare that the quantity of material in the world is the same now as when the world was first made, a statement which may or may not be true; but if it be granted that the quantity of material is the same, it must be allowed, that the conditions of that material perpetually alter. In fact, decomposition and recomposition, organisation and disorganisation, continually recur. But change, the mind recognises, is not destruction. All changes are but new forms under which the original matter presents itself. Gas is formed out of coal, but the gas was there; we made it not, but we did make it to appear. The coal disappears, but the gas appears. A man dies: his body, at least its greatest part, becomes gaseous—namely, presents itself under the forms of oxygen gas, nitrogen gas, hydrogen gas, and of some carbon; a few earthy solid particles remain. The forms of things change, and, to the untaught eye, they seem to cease to be. But it is not so: a kind of transmigration takes place, which, transferred to the spirit part of man's nature, led, it is likely, to the doctrine of the ancient philosophers, the transmigration of souls-the metempsychosis. But mark here the nobility of man! He comes and arrests these changes, and regulates them to his own uses. An acorn has found its way into the soil. It, being supplied with the three agencies essential to its growth, called, its germination-namely, heat, moisture, and air, shoots downwards its root, and upwards its stalk; and, in the course of a century, has attained the dignity of being monarch of the forest. It receives the rain from heaven, and deposits that rain among its roots. If man does not interfere, moss collects about these roots; the moss receives the moisture, forms therewith a fluid poisonous to the roots of the tree; the tree at length falls; the giant dies and rots-that is, assumes new forms. But, in reference to some other oak tree, which, if uninterfered with, would go through the same process, man comes in; he takes the tree in its full maturity, cuts it down and prepares it, so that out of its solid trunk and arms tables are formed, which become consecrated in numerous family circles, as the centre points, around which the social sympathies and the kindliest feelings of nature have been developed generation after generation; and so durable are these made from the gnarled oak, that they become heir-looms in families. What does man here? He arrests the natural series of change, and makes durable what would have been but short in duration; he preserves as solid what would have become converted into gas. Behold this field; the soil is clayey; it has rained; the feet are immersed in the mud, which is called, appropriately enough, "slosh." It is scattered, contemned, because it soils the foot passenger. But man comes in; he gives permanence; he takes this clay, mixes it with sand and cinders, makes bricks, and rears therewith substantial dwellings, which resist both wind and water. He gives a permanence to what, as slosh, would not have been permanent. Noble indeed is man! He can demonstrate his nobility by converting things, which, by their internal agencies, would be self-destroying, into things of utility and of permanence. It is in this way man accumulates. His wealth is change arrested, and such arrests piled. Such is the case in physical matter; and much more so is it |