CHILDREN, legitimacy of, 216—246 legitimation of, 218 supposititious, 219 identity of, 222 greatest number at a birth, 259
CHLORINE, II. 464 proposed use of, II. 253—272
CHOLERA, II. 155 spontanea, II. 156 accidentalis, II. 156—160 treatment of, II. 160
CHURCH-YARDS overcharged, 93—96 exhumations in, 95 of Paris, 95 Dublin, 93 St. Margaret, 93 Dunkirk, 95 St. Denis, 97 St. Benoit, 97
CLASSIFICATION of poisons, II. 199 table, II. 207
COCULUS Indicus, II. 203—207—423 effect of, on fish, II. 424
COLD, death by exposure to, II. 13—16—59 cases of, II. 60 effects of, II. 61 on the blood, II. 62 affusion, use of, II. 391 death of, infant by, III. 128
COLIC of Poitou, or saturnine, II. 340—344—346—358 Devonshire, _ib._ Derbyshire, II. 355 miners, _ib._ painters, _ib._
COLLEGE of Physicians, _see_ Physicians. of Surgeons, 54 its charters, 55—57 its powers, 56 its by-laws, 57
COLOCYNTH, II. 207—377 poisoning by, _ib._
COMBUSTION spontaneous, 402 of hay, 404 by friction, 403 by fermentation, 403—404 by chemical action, 403—406 turf, flax, hemp, rags, oatmeal, 404 bran, 405 of animal matter, 405 woollen stuffs, 406 by fixed oils, 110—406 cases of, 404—405—406—407 of cere cloth, 409 lamp black, 410 by black wad, _ib._ mineral acids, 411 pyrites, _ib._ quicklime, _ib._ spontaneous of human bodies, 412 authorities on, _ib._ cases of, 413—415
COMMISSION of lunacy, 295 misconduct of, 294—296 supercedeas of, 299
CONCEPTION, _see_ Impregnation. phenomena of, 230 false, 254 extra-uterine, 281
CONSANGUINITY, a bar to marriage, 168 physiological reason, _ib._
CONSENT, age of, 168—170 not necessary to impregnation, 436
CONSTABLE, physicians exempt from being, 18 when medical practitioners are exempt, and when not, 72
CONTAGION in factories, 90 from dead bodies, 95 questions on, 114
COPPER, action of, on the stomach, II. 144 and its compounds, II. 202 whitened by arsenic, II. 236 sulphate of, test for arsenic, II. 245 ammoniuret of, II. _ib._ whitened by sublimate, II. 272 generally, II. 285 solubility of, II. 286 culinary precautions on, II. 287—288 oxide of, II. 287 effect of ammonia on, II. 287—293 oxidation and solution of, by oils, II. 287 green carbonate of (verdigris), II. 288 dangerous use of, II. 289 vessels should be tinned, II. 290 sulphate of, II. 291 poisoning by salts of, II. 291 dissection after, II. _ib._ tests of, II. 292 effect of iron on, II. 293 subcarbonate of potass, _ib._ arseniate of potass, _ib._ triple prusiate of potass, effect of on, II. 294 mode of detecting, _ib._ works, when nuisances, 339—347 importance of, 342