AND

In his recent publication, Dr. Combe has demonstrated how exceed- CHAP. XIII. ingly important it is, as regards health as well as productive labour, that CONTINUpleasure, or at least composure of mind, should concur and co-operate ANCE OF with the labour of the body, as well in healthy employment of business HEALTH as in exercise and recreation, a truth most important to be kept in view HAPPINESS. in legislating upon all subjects relative to the employment of the poor and securing their contentment; (k) and from the absence of such cooperation, it is clear that the agricultural labourers, in their present depressed and ill-rewarded state, do not perform much more than half the work as when they were liberally paid in money and received no parochial relief.

The legislature of late, in various proposed enactments, has evinced a humane desire to compensate, or rather mitigate, the privations of the poor incident to their station, by securing to them a degree of pleasure and quiescence of mind that would result from the enjoyment of innocent recreations; but as regards all classes of society, it will be found that our system of education, as well as our municipal regulations, are exceedingly defective, in the absence of due measures to secure quiescence of mind, and the want of adequate punishment for many mental injuries of the most injurious description.

(k) Dr. Combe's Principles of Physiology applied to the Preservation of Health.

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TEMPORARY INDEX.

N. B.-When the remaining parts have been completed, this temporary index may, if thought
fit, be cancelled, and the whole, with the complete index, bound in one volume.

AGES.

135.

ages,
state of circulation at different
of mankind, importance of ascertaining,
436.

as well legally as medically, 436.
division of time by the number seven, 436,
437.

opinions of the ancients respecting, 436.
at what age a child born may live, 436.
when first dentition appears, 436.
when second dentition, 436.

age when legally liable for crimes, 436,
441.

as respects mental faculties and evidence,
436.

time of puberty, 436.

seven years, effect of in law, 436, 437.
medical arrangement of age, 437.
1. Infancy, 437.

2. Childhood, 437.

3. Boyhood, 437.
4. Adolescence, 437.

5. Adult age, 437.

6. Declining or old age, 437.
graduated scale of age before birth, 437.
1. Of the fœtus from conception to birth,
437, 438.

1. When conception dated from, 437.
2. When termed fœtus, 437.
3. Time of quickening, 438.

provisions of 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 13,
against procuring abortion, 438.
4. After quickening, 438.
5. Age when child may live, 438.
6. Delivery at seven months, 438.
7. Usual time of gestation, 438.
8. Utmost limited time of, 438.
II. Of birth and afterwards, 438.

9. Proof of, how established, 438.

10. If delivered by Cæsarian operation,
438.

law respecting, 439.

11. If born alive, 439.

law respecting, 439.

12. If twins, 439.

primogeniture, in case of, 439.
13. When first dentition begins, 439.
14. When child can stand, 439.
15. When mental capacity begins, 439.
operation of law respecting, 439.
440.

441.

29. When may appoint guardian, 441.
30. When punishable for crimes of
omission or commission, 441.

31. Abduction of females, 441.
punishment for, 441.

32. When may act as executor or ad-
ministrator, 441.

33. Age of eighteen, limit of hours of
work at, 441.

34. Age of twenty-one are sui juris, 442.
35. When of age, 442.

36. Forcible abduction of women pos-
sessed of property, 442.

punishment for, 442.

37. Age of twenty-three, 442.
38. When may be admitted a deacon or
priest, 442.

39. Thirty-five best age for men to mar-
ry 442.

40. Age of forty-five, 442.

41. Age when menstruation ceases, 442.
42. Age of sixty, exemption, &c. at, 442.
43. Age of sixty-three, 442.

the first grand climacteric, 443.
44. Age when men usually cease to pro-
create, 443.

45. Age of seventy, 443.

scriptural limit of life, 443.

46. Law respecting survivorship, 443.
47. Law respecting ancestor and heir,
443.

48 When heir may lay demise, 443.
49. Legal presumption of death, 443.
50. Identity after death, 443.
AIR. See Atmosphere.

respiration of, 92 to 123.
inspiration of, 104.
expiration of, 104.

effect of, on the blood, 103, 108, 109.
supposed quantity of, in the lungs, 107.
quantity inspired and expired each time,
107.