NOLLET, Abbè, his comparison of the effects of thunder, with those of electricity, 576. Of the means of preferving men and buildings from, ib.
NORWOOD, Mr. his experiment for measuring the degree of a great circle of the earth, 105.
BRIEN, Mr. his speech on tne loan-bill, in the Irish parlia ment, 1. On the non-refidence of the clergy, 91. ODE, on the defcent of Hygeia to the earth, 245.. OPIATES, taken in the gout, dif- cuffed, 372.
OPIUM. See HUCK. Ufed in the cafe of a bite by a mad dog, 445. OSBORNE, Sir W. his fpeech in the Irish parl. on the non-refidence of the clergy, 90. OWEN, Dr. his account of the good effects of musk, in a convulfive difeafe, 438.
OXEN, recommended for the plough, in preference to horfes, 277. Lord Clare's fuccefs in the ule of, 278. Further recom- mended, 484.
PALSY, occafioned by a fall, cafes of, 438, 441.
PARABLE, of the piece of filver,
verfified, 4c9. PARAPHRENITIS, cure of, 356. PARIS, Abbè, droll account of his
miracles, 555. PATRIOTISM, theory of, 507. Rea- lity of, investigated, ib. PAUL, St. his meaning, when fpeaking of the prince of the power of the air, 214. His oration be- fore K. Agrippa, new version
of, 219. PERIPNEUMONY, cafe of, 543. PERKINS, Mr. his obf. on the be- nefit of cool air in the small- pox, 433. PERRY, Mr. his debates in the Irish parl. 1, 11, 81-86.
PERSECUTION, religious and civil, difcuffed, 263. Church of Rome attacked and defended on this head, ib. feq. PERSFIELD described, 226. PERSPIRATION, infenfible, ac- count of, 363.
PHILOSOPHERS, natural, humane expoftulation with, for their cruel treatment of animals, in their experiments 58c. PIBRAC, M. his remarks on the treatment of wounds attended by the lofs of fubftance, 593- PICTS, their origin investigated, 307.
PIETRO, San, his hiftory, 561.
Kills his wife from principles of falfe heroifm, 562.
PLUTO defcribed in the character of an undertaker, 143. PLEURISY, cafe of, and cure, 356, 543.
POPE, of Rome, abfurd veneration
formerly paid to, 46. PORTLAND, duke of, deprived of the foreft of Inglewood, &c. 327. Administration severely cenfured on that account, 328; and vin- dicated, 329.
PRINTS, the feveral kinds of, their characteristics, 165. Remarks on those of several great mafters, ib.-173.
PROLAPSUS uteri, account of one, attended with peculiar fymp toms, 431. PROVISIONS, Causes of the prefent dearnefs of, 255. The late riots on this account animadverted on, 280. The pleas of rioters on this fubject not to be regarded,
ACINE, Lewis, his eulogium, 514. Tranflates Milton, 518. His death, 519. RARE's Progrefs of Hogarth, deli- neated and criticised, 170. RAPE, different fpecies of, humor-
ously defined, 404. REMBRANDT, the painter, charac- ter of his works, 166. RICHARD II. probably mifrepre- fented by hiftorians, 115. The crimes imputed to him impro- bable, ib.
RICHLIEU, Cardinal, his condu&t and character, 563. Riors, on account of the dearness
of provifions, confidered, 281. ROADS, remarks on, 279. ROSTOCK, in Mecklenburg, fome
particulars relating to, 483. RUSSEL, Dr. his account of hyda- tides discharged with the urine, 437. Of fome experiments on the root of mezereon, 439. Of an almoft univerfal emphysema, 447.
RUTTY, Dr. his account of the fuccefs of the cicuta in Ireland, 440.
ABBATH, Jewish and Chriftian, confidered, 287. SACRAMENT of the Lord's fupper, mistaken notions of, 290. True fcriptural idea of, 291. SALT-WATER, experiments on the evaporation of, 581. SAMUEL, Ch. vi. ver. 19. new ex- planation of, 283. SAXONS, their coins and weights difcuffed, 57, feq. 337. Their measures, 338. Scors, the accounts of their Hiber-
nian defcent fabulous, 303. SCURVY, at sea, fresh wort pre-
fcribed for, 415. SHARP, Mr. his account of Italy contraverted, 448. SILVESTER, Dr. his obf. on the mifchiefs occafioned by the fud- den flopping of falivations, 440. SKEPTICISM, & rational one com- 3
mendable, 114. Good effects of, ib. SMALL-POX. See AIR. SMELFUNGUS, the fplenetic tra- veller, defcribed, 175. SOCIETIES, medical, first rife of,431 SOLOMON's Song, rational com- ment on, 294.
SPAIN, fecret articles in the nego- ciations with, in the reign of Ch. I., 396. Duplicity of that prince, in regard to the Spanish match, 398.
SPENCE, Mr, his criticism on Dry- den criticised, 423. STAGE, Parifian, its controverfy with the church, 288. STATE, means of forming the mo- rals of one, 571. STRELITZ, towns of, defcribed, 485. Ducal palace there, its grandeur, 487.
SUBSCRIPTIONS, to articles of faith, their ill tendency, 114. SUDLEY, Lord, his motion in the Irish parliament for addreffing the king, 81. SUPPLIES, of public money, for the year 1768, remarks on, 158. SURGERY, Royal Academy of, at
Paris, excellency of its inftitu- tion, and utility ofits progrefs, 586 SWEATING ficknefs, the famous
one in the 15th and 16th cen- turies, account of, 365. SYMONS, Mr. his account of an bernia inteftinalis, 434- SYMONDS, Mr. his account of an extraordinary fucceffive growth of teeth, 438.
WARNER, Mr. plan of his gloffary to Shakespeare, 354. WATSON, Dr. on the effects of magnetia in vomitings, 444. WELSH, their situation and cir cumstances defcribed, 67. Account of the editions of the Bible
in their language, 326. WENTWORTH, Lord, his letter to Lord Mountnorris, on the enor mous increafe of office-fees, 391. WHEAT, of Smyrna, curious obier vation on, 586.
WILKES, Mr. deficient in the re quifites of an hiftorian, 469. Animadverfions on his condot and character as a patriot, 509. WOMEN, their longing, when preg nant, and its fuppofed ill effects, exploded, 94. Their mifcar riages, means to prevent. 9. Their nurfing their own children recommended, ib. WOUNDS, attended with loss of
substance, treatment of, 593. Farther remarks on, 594. WOUNDS, by gun fhot, manner of treating, 588. Solution of fome phenomena attending, 591. Y. ORICK, his fentimental travels, 176. Adventure with the Monk a Calais, 17-180. Account of his fervant La Fleur, 181. His benevolence to the beggars, 183. His adventure with the fille de chambre, 309 His converfations with people of distinction at Paris, 314. tis adventure with the peafant on the mountain, 317.
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174, par. 2, 1. 3, dele them.
259, 9, from the bottom, for every perfon who has the leaf,
377, 1. 1, of the note, for facred profeffor, read feared profeffor, 380, par. 2, 1. 19, for opinions, read pinions.
382, 1. 13, for datæ, read data.
412, Art. 47, 1. penult. for delineated, read display'd
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