A view of the science of life : on the principles established in the Elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D., with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work : and cases in illustration / chiefly selected from the records of their practice at the General Hospital, at Calcutta, by William Yates and Charles Mclean ; to which is subjoined, A treatise on the action of mercury upon living bodies, and its application for the cure of diseases of indirect debility ; and, A dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases, in which is attempted to prove by a numerous induction of facts, that they never arise from contagion but are always produced by certain states, or certain vicissitudes of the atmosphere, by Charles Maclean.