The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D.
To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and Writings, and a Selection from his Literary Correspondence
4 Volume Set

Table of Contents

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.