INDEX 



(Refrrenref; to Part II. are in Unites.} 



Absorption coefficient of gases in liquids, 

 247 ; from alimentary canal, 317, 318 ; 

 of light, 15, 18, 71, 72 ; of heat, 343, 

 345, 424 ; of solutes by renal tubules, 

 163 ; spectrum of chlorophyll, 14. 



Accessory factors of diet, 372. 



Acclimatisation, 267. 



Accommodation in eye, 220. 



Acid, action of, on emulsions, 86, 378, 

 381, 389 ; on fats, 421 ; on soaps, 82 ; 

 on tissues, 381, 389. 



Acid, effect of, on dissociation curve of 

 Hb0 2 , 253 ; on imbibition of water 

 by colloids, 378, 389, 411. 



Acidity, numerical expression of, 57, 

 58, 424. 



Acquired characters, transmission of, 361. 



Adaptation, 360. 



Adipose tissue, 173. 



Adsorbed material, state of, 66, 153. 



Adsorption, 66, 98, 111, 378. 



Adsorption and osmosis, 66, 153. 



Adsorption by enzymes, 94, 98 ; cause 

 of, 48 ; demonstrations, 411 ; effect of 

 temperature on, 94, 109 ; of gases by 

 colloids, 248, 332 ; of carbon dioxide 

 by haemoglobin, 254, 334 ; of oxygen 

 by haemoglobin, 248, 251 ; specific 

 surface for, 66, 94. 



Adsorptive stratification (Liesgang pheno- 

 menon), 79, 4 13. 



Agar-agar, 82. 



Agglutination, 79. 



Alimentary canal, general plan of, 313. 



Alkali reserve of blood, 241, 333, 417, 

 418, 419, 



" All or nothing," in nerve, 185. 



Alveoli, 260. 



Amicron, 74. 



Amoeboid movement, 130, 403, 404. 



Amphoteric colloids, 332 ; electrolytes, 

 59. 



Anabolism, 2, 374. 



Anaesthetics, action on colloids of, 83, 86. 



Analyser, 102, 104. 



Angle of origin of blood vessels, 292. 



Angstrom units, 14, 127. 



Anion and cation, 49, 52. 



Anode, 50. 



Anti-enzyme, 97. 



Anti-pro-thrombin, 236, 238. 



Anti-thrombin, 236, 238. 



Antrum pylori, 317. 



Aortic valves, 289, 290. 



Arrhenius' theory, 44. 



Arteries, pressure in, 281. 



Arterioles, pressure in, 281. 



Artificial laccase, 94; membranes, 41, 

 109, 398, 399, 405, 407; partheno- 

 genesis, 378. 



a rays, 120. 



Astral rays, 383. 



Asymmetric carbon atom, 105, 106. 



Autocatalysis and growth, 365. 



Autolysis, 389. 



Available energy, 9 ; of cell, 36. 



Avogadro's hypothesis, 38. 



Axial repulsions, law of, 376. 



Bacon, Instances of Magic (quoted), 91. 



Balanced chemical reactions, 99, 376, 381. 



Barger's vapour pressure method for 

 determination of osmotic pressure, 402. 



Barotaxis, 131. 



Basilar membrane, 209. 



Beckmann thermometer, 400. 



Benzol, imbibition of, 410. 



Bicarbonate system, 241, 332, 416. 



Bile, function of, 318. 



Binocular vision, 225. 



Bio-electric phenomena, 133. 



Bjerknes' phenomenon, 382. 



Blood, alkali reserve of, 241, 333, 417 ; 

 coagulation of, 235 ; colloids of, 233, 

 243 ; composition, 232 ; corpuscles, 

 241 et seq., 398, 422 ; crystalloids, 238 ; 



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