complaints, are most destructively mischievous; the corrosive mineral acids which they contain, by the cruel irritation which they produce in the intestinal canal, greatly increase the ferocity of the disease, by which the sufferer is more quickly and more easily overwhelmed. But pure wine, and well kept, is most astonishingly efficacious in the promotion of recovery from certain morbid conditions of the constitution.

The habitual and moderate use of unsophisticated wine, wonderfully promotes the health and vigour of the body, but when taken too freely is much worse than none. Genuine wine of itself does not appear to exert any seductive influence over man, which prompts him to take more than is good for his constitution, but the perverting agency of many improper foods and drinks does strongly urge him on to the immoderate use of wine, to which the evil consequences are then wont to be unjustly ascribed.

Genuine beer, made only of water, malt and hops, and not too strong, is one of our best and most wholesome drinks: and it is a very ancient beverage, as appears by the history of Herodotus, who relates that, under the name of malt wine, it was anciently used in Egypt. Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, and other authors, also speak of its use in ancient times.

INDEX.

Achilles, his shield. Page 187. 198.

Air, its composition and renovation. 231.

Air springs. 231.

Air volcanoes. 232.

Air prepared by vegetation for animal respiration. 234.
Ambrosia. 104. 197.

Animals living within, and preying upon, the bodies of other
animals. 133.

134.

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generated by the decomposition of animal substances.

noxious, their origin. 138.

Anointing anciently practiced to protect the body from diseases,
and of the manner in which it does so. 259.

Atlantis, its disappearance, and its subsequent discovery by
Columbus. 17.

Atmosphere, the saline impregnation of the air of Egypt. 42.
Bacchus, the signification of. 110.

Beer, its wholesomeness, and the antiquity of its use. 276.
Blindness, the cause of its great frequency in Egypt. 43.

Bread, the hurtful effects of its adulterations. 216.

Britain, formerly joined to France. 18.

Burial grounds. 267. 268.

Cabiri, trinity of the. 112.

Calomel, its terrible effects on the human body. 48.

Campania Felice. 24.

Canine madness, its cause. 52.

Catarrhs, or colds, caused by salt. 45.

Ceres. 110.

Chaos. 81.

Clothing, its effects on the body. 238.

Coal mines, how formed. 16.

Condiments, the effects of hot condiments on man. 221.

Consumption caused by chlorine gas. 41.

I caused by eating salt. 49. 253.

Icaused by the absence of sufficient clothing on the
chest. 241.

Constellations, the formation of. 90.

Continents, the formation of the continents and islands. 16. 162.
Cotton and linen cloths, the dangers of their use for external
clothing. 242.

Crown of Pandora, the signification of the engravings on the.
136.

Dance of Hyperion, or of the golden age. 198.

Death, sudden deaths, how caused. 141.

Diet, the great importance of attention to the propriety of diet.

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211.

the diet most favourable to the perfect developement and
beauty of the body. 215.

Diseases, the provisions which nature has made to protect man
from the causes of diseases. 249.

Dog, the causes of his diseases. 51.

Dooms, the weighing of the dooms of the Argives and the Tro-
jans. 182.

Drinking to excess caused by salt. 53. 70.

Earth, the chief functions of the earth. 1.

all its substances concerned in the formation of animal
bodies. 8.

its resemblance to the body of an animal. 6.

its fertility restored by volcanic fire. 23.

communicates its own diseases to vegetables and animals.

34.

earth and its creatures diminish in size. 97.

., increase of its magnitude. 151.

Earthquakes, their cause explained. 21.

the cause of their great frequency in cities. 20.

Electricity, persons struck dead by electricity proceeding from
the earth unattended by lightning. 265.

Elijah fed by ravens. 107. 108.

Embalming, why practised by the ancient Egyptians. 62.
Enigma proposed by Homer to Hesiod. 188.

Erebus. 88.

Esdras, his residence amongst the flowers. 108.

Etna, its eruptions. 23.

Eye, the manner in which it collects knowledge, and conveys it
to the mind. 10.

Eyes, the cause of the great frequency of eye diseases in Egypt.

42.

Face, a morbid redness of, produced by animal food. 224.
Fever, a French army destroyed by fever at Baiæ. 33.
Fire, the sacred fire. 120.

its invention by man. 124. 125.

the descent of the celestial fire. 86. 151. 163. 181.

, its great influence in purifying corrupt air. 264.

Flesh, the tendency of its use to render man unnaturally fero-

cious. 225.

the disease caused by eating flesh. 223.

the Israelites afflicted with plague in consequence of the

use of flesh. 224.

the way to render flesh most wholesome. 229.

Food, its nourishment destroyed by salt. 54. 55.

the influence of different kinds of food on man. 213.

fruit and farinaceous food. 215.

animal food not good for young children. 227.

rendered poisonous by earthenware glazed with lead. 247.

effects of animal food on man. 224.

Fruits, not originally produced. 104.

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created as medicines for man. 249.

Functions of the earth, the vegetable, and the animal particularly
described. 2.

Granite, the means by which great blocks of granite have been

scattered over the earth. 15.

Grass, its hurtfulness to the higher vegetation. 139.

Hercules, his shield. 187.

Hesiod, his native country, the epoch in which he lived, his

piety, and elevation of mind. 77.

Homer's Hymn to Neptune. 176.

Houses of Quito all thrown down by an earthquake. 21.
Hyperion. 92.

Hypochondriacks. 50.

Ibis, Crocodile, and Cat, why so much venerated by the ancient
Egyptians. 59.

Iceland and its plagues. 34.

Ideas, how generated by the mind. 12.

Inflammations caused by hot seasonings. 221.

Insanity of mind, its chief cause in the human race. 54.

Ischia, the delicious fruits produced by the new volcanic earth of

the island of Ischia. 25.

Jorullo, the great eruption of Jorullo. 27.

Judah and Jacob ploughing. 197.
Jupiter, the planet. 93.

Juno, suspended by a golden chain. 171.
Kindling of the earth. 175.

Lead, its poisonous nature, and the dangers of its use for do-
mestic purposes. 244.

Light, its influence on the health, and on the developement of
the human body. 235.

disease caused by its exclusion. 237.

Lightning, the great lightnings of volcanic eruptions. 26. 30.
Lightning, the means employed by nature to purify the air,
and the manner in which it produces that effect. 264.
London, the manner in which the purity of its air is main-
tained. 267.

Madness, furious madness caused by drinking salt water. 54.
Man, his creation. 104.

Man's abundant power of improving his present condition. 211.
Mice, vast swarms of, in Egypt. 60. 137.

Mice of dwelling-houses greatly diseased. 60.

Michael and the Dragon. 162.

Michael, St. the sub-marine eruption off. 27. 153.

Mind, a description of its functions. 10.

Mines of salt, how formed. 68.

Mineral substances forbidden by primeval ordinance. 71.

Moris, the lake. 207.

Monkeys, in this country, why so liable to consumption. 52.
Monte Nuovo, eruption of. 29. 152.

Moon, its origin. 92.

Moses, his stratagem in his military expedition against the
Ethiopians. 59.

Mountains, the making of the waste mountains and hills. 15.