INDEX 



1397 



Autonomic fibres, artVrent, 531 



cranial, 527 



of vagus, 528 



sacral, 528 



system, classification of, 525 

 Autonomic nervous system, 520-532 

 Autoxidisable substances, 1234 

 Average error method, 540 

 Avogadro's hypothesis, 139 

 Axis cylinder, 280 

 Axon, 280 



reflexes, 529 



in vaso-dilator fibres, 1125 



BACTERIA, action on amino-acids, 84 



of putrefaction, 173 

 Bacterium nitromonas, 43 

 Bahnung, 344 



in cortex, 499 

 Balanced reactions, 185 

 Balance-sheets of body, 685 

 Barcroft's blood-gas apparatus, 1177 

 Barometric pressure, influence on alveolar 



CO.,, 1207 

 Basal ganglia, "definition of, 425 



development, 410 

 Basophile leucocytes, 919 

 Basilar membrane, functions of, 574 

 Bathmotropic effect of vagus excitation, 



1091 



Bayliss and Starling on intestinal move- 

 ments, 818 



on depresor reflexes, 1097, 1127 



on secretin, 797 

 Beats, 565 



Bechterew's nucleus, 429, 454 

 Beckmann's apparatus for freezing-point, 



143, 144 



Behenic acid, 59 



Bell and Magendie's law, 285, 365 

 Benedict's respiration apparatus, 690 

 Bensley on islets of Langerhans, 802 

 Benzene ring, 54 



origin of, 131 

 Benzyl alanine, 172 



pyrotartaric acid, 172 

 Bernard's experiment on vaso-motor 



nerves, 1103 

 Betz cells, 484 

 Bichromate cell, 208 

 Bidder's ganglion, 1058 

 Biedermann's fluid, 235 

 Bile, 803-807 



acids, 84 



composition of, 804 



flow of, 805 



functions of, 806 



pigment, origin of, 943 



salts, 804 



circulation of, 807 



effects of, on lipase action, 794 



functions of, 806 



secretion of, 805 

 Biliary fistula, 804 

 Bimolecular reaction, 181 

 Binocular vision. 656, 662 



Biogen, 21 

 Biophor, 21 

 Biuret, 124(5 

 base, 98 



reaction, 102, 111 



Bladder, afferent impulses from, 1293 

 central control of, 1296 

 evacuation of, 1294 

 filling of, 1293 

 innervation of, 1292, 1295 

 musculature, 1290 

 rhythmic contractions of, 1294 

 sphincters of, 1290, 1297 

 Blind spot, 626 

 Blix apparatus, 220 

 Blood, 915-978 



alkalinity of, 1190 

 amount in body, 964 

 carbon dioxide in, 1186, 1195 

 coagulation, 917, 947-963 

 effect of calcium on, 949 

 historical account, 959-963 

 negative phase, 956 

 positive phase, 956 

 corpuscles, relative amount, 967 

 electrical conductivity, 972 

 freezing-point of, 972 

 gases of, 1177 

 gas determination, chemical methods, 



1177 



pumps, 1175 



general composition of, 973 

 haemolysis, 25, 141, 926, 943, 1131, 



1159 



hydrogen ion concentration of, 1213 

 laking of, 926 

 life-history of red corpuscles, 939- 



943 

 methods of preventing coagulation, 



947 



osmotic pressure of, 972 

 oxygen capacity of, 965, 969 

 pigments, 927 



synthesis of, 937 

 plasma, coagulation of, 948 

 composition of, 973 

 proteins of, 955 

 relative amount, 967 

 platelets, 944-946 

 pressure, alterations of, 997 

 apparatus, 984 

 in capillaries, 1048 

 in man, 987 

 in vascular system, 985, 986- 



998 



reaction of, 971 

 reactions of, 1 1 90 

 red corpuscles, 916, 924-943 

 chemistry of, 926 

 destruction of, 940 

 effect of altitude on number, 



1229 



enumeration of, 968 

 life of, 942 



osmotic properties of, 925 

 regeneration of. 941 

 stroma, 927 



