- 1Preface to the Second Edition
- 2Introduction
- 3Obesity
- 4Dwarfs
- 5Gigantic Races
- 6Unlawful Cures
- 7Voice and Speech
- 8Ecstatic Exaltation
- 9Varieties of Mankind
- 10On the Inhumation of the Dead in Cities
- 11Buried Alive
- 12Spontaneous Combustion
- 13Brassica Eruca, or the Rocket Plant
- 14Cagliostro
- 15Lunar Influence on Human Life and Diseases
- 16Spectacles
- 17Leeches
- 18Somnambulism
- 19Medical Powers of Music
- 20The Food of Mankind. Its Use and Abuse
- 21Influence of Imagination
- 22Ancient Ideas of Phrenology
- 23Perfumes
- 24Love Philters and Potions
- 25Ventriloquism
- 26Chaucer’s Description of a Physician. The Doctor of Physic
- 27Dæmonomania
- 28The Plague
- 29Abstinence
- 30Poison of the Upas, or Ipo
- 31Homophagous and Polyphagous
- 32Causes of Insanity
- 33Leprosy
- 34The Aspic
- 35Selden’s Comparison Between a Divine, a Statesman, and a Physician
- 36The Lettuce
- 37Medical Fees
- 38Enthusiasm
- 39Medicinal Effects of Water
- 40Proverbs and Sayings Regarding Health and Disease
- 41The Night-Mare
- 42Incubation of Diseases
- 43Quackery and Charlatanism
- 44On the Use of Tea
- 45Mandragore
- 46Barber-Surgeons, and the Progress of Chirurgical Art
- 47On Dreams
- 48On Flagellation
- 49On Life and the Blood
- 50Of the Homœopathic Doctrines
- 51Doctrine of Signatures
- 52Coffee
- 53Aqua Tophania
- 54Plica Polonica and Human Hair
- 55Animal Magnetism
- 56Poisonous Fishes
- 57Memory and the Mental Faculties
- 58Affections of the Sight
- 59Hellebore
- 60Sympathies and Antipathies
- 61The Archeus of Van Helmont
- 62Monsters
- 63Longevity
- 64Cretinism
- 65Temperaments
- 66Solar Influence
- 67Sweating Fever
- 68Smallpox
- 69Generative Animalcules
- 70Circulation of the Blood
- 71Drunkenness
- 72Decapitation
- 73Mummies
- 74Hydrophobia
- 75On the Rise and Progress of the Science of Medicine
- 76Medicine of the Chinese
- 77Experiments on Living Animals
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