1580 



INDEX. 



Movements, voluntary, as influenced by 



sensory impulses, 1061 

 Mucigen, a forerunner of mucin, 411 

 Mucin, a constituent of saliva, 357 



,, in perilymph of vestibule, 1344 

 Miiller, radial fibres of, 1196 

 Mulberry gall-stories, 431 

 " Mulberry mass " the, 1520 

 Multipolar cells of splanchnic ganglia, 



179 



" Muscae volitantes," 1190 

 Muscarin, its action on cardiac tissue, 



301 

 Muscle, irritability, 56 



,, contractions, phenomena of, 68, 



77 



,, ,, tetanic, 78 

 wave of contraction, 86 

 ,, gross structure of, 84 

 ,, minute structure of, 88 

 striated, 89, 91 

 ,, under polarized light, 93 

 ,, mobility of, 95 

 ,, chemistry of, 95-104 

 ,, living and dead, contrast of, 95 

 ,, dead, chemical substances in, 



96, 98 



,, frozen, 98 

 ,, rigid, acid reaction of, 99 

 ,, living, reaction of, 100 

 ,, constituents of, 101 

 ,, chemical changes due to con- 

 traction, 104 

 ,, thermal changes, 103, 104, 106, 



151, 807 



electrical, 106 

 ,, action of the constant current 



on, 134 

 ,, work done by, as influenced by 



fatigue, 139 



by load, 141 



,, ,, ,, by size and form of 



muscle, 142 



,, ,, by temperature, 145 



influence of functional activity 



on, 148 



,, exhaustion of, 149 

 ,, oxygen consumed during con- 

 traction, 152 



,, contractile material of, 153 

 ,, contraction a chemical process, 



154 



,, plain, structure of, 156 

 ,, ,, arrangement of nerves in, 158 

 ,, ,, chemistry of, 159 

 ,, ,, characters of contraction of, 



159 

 ,, spontaneous contractions of, 



161 



,, tonic contraction of, 162 

 ,, respiration of, 579 

 ,, nutrition of, 148, 824 

 ,, cardiac, 274 

 ,, unlike skeletal muscle, 285 



Muscle, cardiac, histology of, 288 

 ,, ,, nerve-endings in, 118 

 ,, vaso-dilator fibres in nerve sup- 

 ply to, 316 



,, embryonic, glycogen in, 729 

 ,, relations of metabolism to struc- 

 tural features, 825 

 ,, governance of nutrition of, 923 

 Muscles, skeletal, result of metabolism 



in, 751 

 ,, ,, their proportion in body, 



789 



tone of, 922 

 rigidity of, 927 



,, ,, their mode of action, 1480 

 Muscle-currents, 106 



,, negative variation of, 111 



,, ,, velocity of, 106 



Muscle-curves, 68 



,, ,, analysis of, 74 



,, ,, variations of, 77 



,, ,, tetanic, 78 



Muscle-nerve preparation, 58-83 



,, ,, ,, muscle current shewn 



in, 111 



,, ,, ,, as a machine, 136 

 Muscle-plasma, 98 

 Muscle-serum and clot, 98 

 Muscle-sound, 140 

 Muscularis mucosfe of stomach, 384 

 ,, ,, of oesophagus, 392 



,, ,, of intestine, 442 



Musical sounds, characters of, 1361 

 Myoglobulin, 98 

 Myograph described, 68, 71 

 Myosin in white corpuscles, 40 



,, in dead muscle, 96 

 Myosinogen in white corpuscles, 40 



,, in living muscle, 99 



Myxcedema, its connection with disease 

 of thyroid, 764 



Nasal passages, inspired air warmed in 



the, 548 



Nausea, sensation of, 1424 

 Nerves, irritability of, 56 



,, ,, ,, tested by constant 



current, 135 

 ,, end-plates of, probable action of 



urari on, 58 



,, ,, connection of with mus- 



cular fibre, 85 



,, ,, the two parts of, 119 



,, ,, their analogy with elec- 



trical organs, 120, 155 

 ,, structure of, 114, 115 

 ,, arrangement of in striated mus- 

 cle, 118 

 ,, ,, ,, in unstriated 



muscle, 158 

 ,, chemistry of, 121 

 ,, severed, degenerative changes in, 



144 

 ,, mixed, 171 



