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Imperfect mastication-Man a low-pressure engine-Bolting food-Reading during

meals-Imperfect teeth-Hot rolls and buttered toast-Buttered muffins and

suet dumplings-How to eat mutton fat-How to make a sandwich-Cause of

toughness and tenderness in butcher's meat-"High" meat-Papaw-Bad

cooking-Usefulness of pleasant taste in food-Unappetising service-Cookery

as a moral agent-Drunkenness and thirst-Dentistry as a moral agent-Water as

a stimulant-Nervous dyspepsia-Regulation of diet-Dr. Austin Flint's opinion

-"Grabbing" food-Uses of a table d'hôte―The appetite as a regulator-Over-

cating-Advantages of a weak stomach-Wrong interpretation of the dictates of

the palate-Salt herrings-Oldest diet tables of the world-Adam's diet table—

Noah's diet table-Diet table of Moses-Diet tables for dyspeptics-General

rules for dyspeptics-Avoid things hard to disintegrate-Avoid things hard to

digest-Indigestible substances-Prehistoric strawberries-Acid fruits-Sour

wines-Hyperæsthesia of gullet-Afternoon tea-Effect of tea on digestion-Tea

at breakfast-Long infusion of tea--Very hot tea-Effect of coffee on the intestinal

and hæmorrhoidal veins-Cocoa-Effect of fatigue upon digestion-Co-ordination

of the digestive functions-Digestive stumbling-Use of rest-Abuse of exercise

-Business men's dinners-Effect of depressing emotions-Consumption from

crossed love-Emotional dyspepsia-Use of bromides-Uterine dyspepsia-Con-

nection of digestion with other functions-Gastric tonics-Carminatives-Stimu-

lants; their place and power-Dirt-Alcohol in dyspepsia-St. Paul's advice to

Timothy Purgatives-Regularity (?) of the bowels-Constipation-Dinner pills

-Fashions in purgatives-Carlsbad water at home and in Carlsbad-Pathology

of biliousness-Action of aromatic compounds upon the bile-Toluylendiamine

-Salicylate of soda-Possible effects of intestinal poisons-Epidemic jaundice—

Blue pill and black draught-Horse exercise-Alteratives-Action of ammonia

upon the formation of glycogen-Diuretics-Hot water-Treatment of asthma—

Intermittent pulse-Giddiness and headache-Action of atropine in megrim-

Weir-Mitchell treatment

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MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

ON HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, AND OTHER NERVOUS DISEASES
CONNECTED WITH THE TEETH.

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Seat of sensation-Hysterical pain-Neuralgia-Toothache and headache-Pathology
of megrim-Action of heat and cold on the circulation-Transference of pain
from temple to occiput-Occipital headache from decayed teeth-Enlarged tonsils
and headache-Strain of the eyes as a cause of headache-Presbyopia and giddiness
-Diseases of the nose as a cause of headache-Disease of the car as a cause of
headache-General causes of headache-Seat of headache-Treatment of frontal
headache-Occipital headache-Vertical headache-Anæmic headache-Rheu-
matic headache-Gouty headache-Albuminuric headache-Syphilitic headache
-General diagnosis and treatment of headache

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ON THE USES AND ADMINISTRATION OF FAT.

Attempts to swim the Channel-Causes of failure and success- -Fat as a protective
against external cold-Fat as a store-house of energy-Different amount of fat
in tissues-Different kinds of fat-Formation of fat-Exclusively meat diet as
a cause of weakness and muscular fatigue-Pastrycooks and consumption-How
to eat fat-How to give cod-liver oil-Uses of cod-liver oil-Sick-room cookery
Gruel for bronchitis-Bantingism and nervous derangement-Gouty glycosuria
-Pathology of fatty degeneration-Treatment of fatty degeneration of the
heart

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Action of heat and cold on the circulation-Poultice to superficial parts-Poultice to
deep-seated parts-Importance of proper method of making poultices for the
relief of pain

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"Want of tone"-Functional activity of the body and its parts-Modes of increasing
functional activity-Gastric tonics-Cardiac tonics-Sewer gas in the intes-
tines-Action of charcoal-Vascular tonics-Spinal tonics-Removal of waste
products-Pathology of cedema-Action of digitalis on absorption-Action of
strychnine-Action of iron

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