An exploration of the internal processes that result in drunkenness or intoxication.

Being lost in one's thoughts pleasantly, a daydream if you will.

There are 4 situations of our system with many curious and instructive phenomena. One of which is sleep, the cousin of death.

In this, we illustrate some of the phenomena of disease and trace out their most efficacious methods of cure.

The salival glands drink up a certain fluid from the circumfluent blood, and pour it into the mouth.

The throat, stomach, and intestines, may be considered as one gland; which like the lacrymal sack above mentioned, neither begins nor ends in the circulation.

The capillary-vessels are like all the other glands, inasmuch as they receive blood from the arteries, separate fluid from it, and return the remainder by veins

The veins resemble the other absorbent vessels; as the progression of their contents is carried on in the same manner in both.

From the consumption of spiris, the termination of the common bile duct in that bowel becomes stimulated into unnatural action.

The term paralysis has generally been used to express the loss of voluntary motion, as in the hemiplagia, but it can also be applied to failing muscular fibres

The absorbent system of vessels in animal bodies consists of several branches, differing in respect to their situations, and to the fluids, which they absorb.

Ancient writers have said much of temperaments but without enough detail. Temperament of the system should be mean a permanent predisposition to certain disease

As many motions of the body are excited and continued by irritations, so others require pleasurable or painful sensations.

When the contractile sides of the heart and arteries perform more pulsations at a time, one kind of fever may be produced; called synocha irrritativa.

The objects of desire and aversion are generally at a distance, whereas those of pleasure and pain are immediately acting upon our organs.

Muscular movements induced by pain can quickly become intermittent and repetitive.

The larger crystals of saline bodies may arise from the combination of smaller crystals, owing to the greater attractions of their sides than their angles.

From the recent discoveries of many ingenious philosophers it appears, that during respiration the blood imbibes the vital part of the air, called oxygene.

our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment.

When any one has long and attentively looked at a bright object an image, which resembles the object he was attending to, continues some time to be visible.