The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D. 4 Volume Set

Volume 1: Advertisement; Dedication; Biographical memoirs; A Father's Instructions. Volume 2: Dedication; Preface; A Socratic discourse on truth; Miscellaneous observations on the influence of habit and association; On inconsistency of expectation in literary pursuits; On the advantages of a taste for the general beauties of nature, and of art; Miscellaneous observations on the alliance of natural history, and philosophy, with poetry; On the intellectual and moral conduct of experimental pursuits; A tribute to the memory of Charles de Polier; General appendix to the foregoing dissertations; An enquiry into the principles and limits of taxation; Appendix; Biographical memoirs of the late Thomas Butterworth Bayley; Dissertatio medica inauguralis de frigore; Medical Ethics. Volume 3: Advertisement; Part I: Preface; The empiric, or man of experience; The dogmatic, or rationalist; Experiments and observations on astringents and bitters; On the uses and operation of blisters; An inquiry into the resemblance between chyle and milk; Experiments and observations on water, particularly the hard pump water of Manchester; On the disadvantages of inoculating children in early infancy; On the efficacy of external applications in the angina maligna, or ulcerous sore throat; Part II: Preface; Observations and experiments on the Columbo root; On the preparation, culture, and use of the orchis root; Experiments and observations on the waters of Buxton and Matlock; Observations on the medicinal uses of fixed air; On the antiseptic and sweetening powers, and on the varieties of factitious air; On the noxious vapours of charcoal; On the atrabilis; On the septic quality of sea salt; On coffee; Select histories of diseases with remarks. Volume 4: Part III: Preface; Observations on the state of population in Manchester and other adjacent pages; On the small-pox and measles; On the different quantities of rain, which fall at different heights over the same spot of ground; On the solution of human calculi by fixed air; On the nature and composition of urinary calculi; On the effects of foxed air on the colours and vegetation of plants; On the action of different manures; On different absorbents; On the internal regulation of hospitals; Miscellaneous observations, cases and inquiries; Part IV: Preface; On a new and cheap method of preparing pot-ash; On the fatal effects of pickles impregnated with copper; Speculations on the perceptive power of vegetables; Facts and queries relative to attraction and repulsion; Narrative of the sufferings of a collier; A physical inquiry into the powers and operations of medicines; On the solvent powers of camphor; Medical cautions and remarks; On the medicinal uses of cod liver oil; On the nature, cause, and cure of the rabies canina; Miscellaneous facts and observations; Miscellaneous practical observations; An account of an earthquake; On the silk cotton of Sumatra; On the acid of tar; On the construction and polity of prisons; Remarks relative to the improvement of the Manchester Infirmary; Index.