Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- ADVERTISEMENT
- Lately published, BY THE AUTHOR
- Contents
- PART III
- 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; with Observations on the Effects of Famine
- A physical Inquiry into the Powers and Operations of Medicines
- On the solvent Powers of Camphor, &c
- Medical Cautions and Remarks, particularly relative to Pulmonary Disorders
- 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
On the Construction and Polity of Prisons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- ADVERTISEMENT
- Lately published, BY THE AUTHOR
- Contents
- PART III
- 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; with Observations on the Effects of Famine
- A physical Inquiry into the Powers and Operations of Medicines
- On the solvent Powers of Camphor, &c
- Medical Cautions and Remarks, particularly relative to Pulmonary Disorders
- 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
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- 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, pp. 427 - 435Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013