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INDEX 



effect on haemoglobin, 52 



in alveolar air, 30 



in arterial blood at high 

 altitudes, 56, 61 



in blood leaving lungs, by 

 CO method, 54 



in capillaries at high alti- 

 tudes, 57 



in sea water, 62 

 Oxygen secretion, at high 

 altitudes, 56, 57 



by lung epithelium, 53, 54, 

 56, 57, 6?, 



in swim bladder of fishes, 

 62, 63, 64 



relation to oxygen pressure 

 in lungs, 63, 64 

 Oxy-haemoglobin, dissocia- 

 tion of, 29 



effect on absorption curve 

 of CO2 in blood, ?)Z 



properties of, 28 



regulation of blood gases 

 by, 72 

 Oxy-haemoglobin dissocia- 

 tion curve, 29, 30 



and CO2 pressure in blood, 

 30, 31 



and inorganic salts in red 

 blood cells, 31 



as index of reaction in 

 blood, 31 



at high altitudes, 50 



constancy of, 34 



effects of acid on, 31 



effects of alkali on, 31 



Paley, 116 



Partial pressure CO2, rela- 

 tion to barometric pres- 

 sure, 13 



Pathological phenomena, 102 



Pathology, 102 



Peak of Teneriffe, 50 



Pfliiger, 53, 108 



Physics and chemistry in life 

 phenomena, 105, 106 



Physiological activities, co- 

 ordination of, 1, 2, 26 



Physiology, and clinical med- 

 icine, 94 

 and structure, 102 

 and surgery, 94 

 definition, 1 

 the "new," 103 



Pike's Peak expedition, 47, 

 49, 51, 55, 56, 94 



Pituitary gland in physiologi- 

 cal regulation, 80 



Poisons, immunity to, 95 



Priestley, 3, 8, 77, 78 



Psychology, 115 



Radioactivity, 107 



Reaction of blood (see 



hlood alkalinity) 

 Reaction of urine, 40 

 Reality, "objective," 118 

 Red blood corpuscles, 28 



at high altitudes, 50, 51 



destruction, 81 



effect of bleeding on regen- 

 eration of, 80, 81 



