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PHYSIOLOGICAL PHYSICS. 



Jolly, 256 



Joule's equivalent, 452 



Katelectrotonus, 82, 86 



Kations, 52 



Katode, 52 



Keys, Galvanic, 54 



, , Contact or spring, 55 



, , Friction, of Du Bois- 



Reyuiond, 56 



-, Mercury, 54 



Kirchhoff, 322 



Klangfarbe, 435 



Kleist's jar, 12 



Koenig's appai-atus for analysing 



sound, 447 



stethoscope, 422 



Kronecker's cauule for frog-heart, 



236 



Kiiss, 267 



KyrnographioH, Fick's, 229' 

 , Lud wig's, 228 



Lactodensimeter, 206. 



L-ictometer, 206 



Lanipyre, 339 



Laplace, 479 



Laryngoscope, 349 

 - of Foulis, 351 



Latent heat of fusion, 471 

 - of vapour, 473 



period of stimulation, 129, 



177 



Lauder Brunton's meth'od of ex- 

 perimenting on frog-heart, 238 



Lavoisier, 479 



Law of contraction, 87 et seq. 



of falling bodies, 503 



of Leuz, 36 



Leclauch^'s element, 23, 150 



Length, Standard of, 485 



Lenses, Aberrations of, 34i 



- -, Achromatic, 347 



Collimating, 330 



Focal distance of, 316 



Foci of, 313 et seq. 



Formation of images by, 316 



Forms of, 312 



Immersion, 362 



Size of image formed by, 318 



Lena' law for induction currents. 



36, 38 

 Leslie, 463 

 Leuwenhoech, 357 

 Levers, 494 



in human body, 507 



Leyden jar, 11 



L ebig on dialysis, 261 



on imbibition, 247 



action in 



of 



Liebig on osmotic 



absorption, 264 

 Li^bt, Analysis of, 319 



Double refraction of, 397 

 Intensity of, 301 

 Interference of, 406 

 Nature of, 296 

 Polai-isation of, 401 

 Recomposition of spectrum 

 320 



Reflection of, 301 

 Refraction of, 308 et seq. 

 Spectrum of, 319 

 Theories of, 296 

 Velocity of, 299 

 Vibrations of, 297 

 Lippmann's capillary electro- 

 meter, 244 

 Liquids, Absorption of, 261 



, of gases by, 291 



, Adhesion of, 240 



and capillary action, 241 



, Cohesion of, 188, 239 



, Diffusion of, 248 



, Equilibrium of, in communi- 

 cating vessels, 193 



. Filtration of, 266 



, Flow of, in uniform tubes, 



211 



, , in bent tubes, 214 



, , in capillary tubes, 215 



, , in elastic tubes, 216, 220 



, , in ramified tubes, 215 



, , in tubes of varying 



diameter, 214 



, Point of saturation of, 248 

 , Specific gravity of, 197 

 , Surface tension of, 240 



, Transmission of pressure by, 



189 



, Transudation of, 266 



, Upward pressure of, 192 



, Velocity of efflux of, 208 



Liquefaction of gas, 287 

 Listing's values for cardinal points 



of the human eye, 380 

 Listen, 349 

 Loadstone, 90 

 Local aneesthesia, 474 

 Localised faradisation, 159 

 Ludwig's frog-heart apparatus, 

 236 



kymographion, 228 



observations on endosmotic 



equivalent, 256 

 Luminiferous ether, 296 

 Luminous bodies, 299 

 Lungs, Exchange of gases in, 

 293 



