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INDEX. 



The Numbers refer to the. Paragraphs. 



Attention, effects of, on sensations, 519 521 

 Auditory ganglia, in Fishes, 357 ; in Man, 422 

 Auditory nerve, 446 ; terminations of, in ear, 



559 

 Auricles of heart, action of, 718, 719 ; capacity 



of, 723 b 



Automatic actions, 438 a 

 Azote, absorption and exhalation of, 766; ex- 

 cretion of, in urine, 819, 842 850 ; respira- 

 tion in, 769, 780 



B. 



BAKEY, Dr. M., his researches on the blood- 

 corpuscles referred to, 148 ; his embryologi- 

 cal researches referred to, 130, 900918 



Barry, Sir D., his experiments on the venous 

 circulation, 744 b 



Basement-membrane, 135 



Bat, peculiar sensibility of, 526 



Batrachia, 31, 32; metamorphosis of, 32 



Beaumont, Dr., his experiments and observa- 

 tions on digestion, 637, 649, 657660, 664 

 666 



Becquerel on the heat of Plants, 889 a ; on the 

 heat of Animals, 891 ; on the heat of Muscle, 

 890 



Bee, perfection of instinct of, 336; construction 

 of hexagonal cell by, 336 note ; uneducability 

 of, 429 b ; temperature of, 889 c 



Bell, Sir C., his discoveries referred to, 344, 

 349,351,376,377,433 



Bell, Mr. T., on the development of the teeth, 

 217 i ; on secretion after death, 624 



Bellinger!, on the Spinal Cord, 349 



Berger and Delaroche, their experiments on 

 Animal Heat, 888 



Berber race, 94 



Bernard, M. Ch., his researches on digestion, 

 658 b, 664 b, 669 



Bibra, Von, his analyses of Bone, 196 ; of Teeth, 

 212 



Bile, secretion of, 831 837; composition of, 

 833; amount of, 834 ; formed from venous 

 blood, 831 ; partly an excrementitious fluid, 

 836; effects of non-elimination of, 836; 

 sources of, 836 ; purposes of, in digestive 

 process, 660, 670, 671, 835 



Birds, 33 41 ; skeleton of, 37, 38 ; respiration 

 and heat of, 33, 757, 889 c ; covering of, 36 ; 

 instinctive powers and intelligence of, 39, 

 479, nutritive system in, 40; bi-lateral sym- 

 metry in, 40; development of young in, 41 ; 

 blood-corpuscles of, 146 b, 149 ; brain of, 361 



Bischofl', his experiments on respiration, 768 



Bladder, contraction of, 390 



Blake, Mr., his experiments on the Circulation, 

 725 



Blind persons, acuteness of touch in, 525 



Blondlot, M., his researches on digestion, 658 

 b, 664 b 



BLOOD, 



Physical and vital properties of, 69G 70S ; 

 composed of liquor sanguinis and cor- 

 puscles, 696; proportion of components 

 of, in health, 697 ; purposes of, 698 ; total 

 amount of in body, 724 



Structure of Red Corpuscles, 143, 144; form 

 of corpuscles, 145, 146 ; size of corpuscles, 



146; chemical constitution of corpuscles, 

 147 ; origin of, from each other, 148 ; first 

 production of, in embryo, 149 ; purposes 

 of, in animal economy, 150 

 Colourless corpuscles, 151, 152; their uses 



in the economy, 153 159 

 Serum, composition of, 697 ; milky, 697 e 

 Coagulation of, 699 705 ; due to fibrine 

 alone, 117, 118, 699; an act of vitality, 

 118, 700, 701 ; causes influencing, 701, 702; 

 proportions of serum and clot, 703; buffy 

 coat, causes of, 704, 705 ; composition of, 

 116 a; artificially producible, by retarding 

 coagulation, 699 



Pathological changes in, 706 70S ; normal 

 proportion of chief constituents, 706 ; in- 

 fluence of abstinence and hemorrhage, 

 707 ; increase of fibrine in inflammation, 

 158, 707 a, 802; deficiency of fibrine in 

 fever and hemorrhagic diseases, 7076; in- 

 crease of corpuscles in plethora, 707 c; 

 diminution in chlorosis, anaemia, &c., 707 

 c ; decrease of albumen in Bright's disease, 

 707 d ; general depravation of, 70S ; imper- 

 fect elaboration of, in tuberculous cachexia, 

 .807 



Changes produced in, by respiration, 769 

 772 ; difference of arterial and venous 

 blood, 769; excretion of carbonic acid from, 

 769 ; absorption of oxygen by, 766 ; gases 

 extracted from, 770 ; change of colour, 

 causes of, 771, 772 ; aeration of, by gene- 

 ral surface, 768 

 Organization of, 118, 700, 796 

 Movement of through vessels, see Circulation 

 Blood-discs, see Corpuscles 

 Blood-vessels, see Arteries, Capillaries, and 



Veins 



Bone, 192207; structure of, 192 196; form- 

 ation of, in membrane, 197 ; in cartilage, 

 198 200 ; chemical composition of, 196 ; 

 growth of, 201 203; regeneration of, 204 

 207 

 Bouchardat, M., his researches on digestion, 



670 



Bovista giganteum, 153 a 

 Bourgery, M., his observations on air-cells of 



lungs, 757 a 



Bowman, Mr., his observations on muscular 



fibre, 226, 228, 231, 232, 590 a ; on mucous 



membrane, 176; on structure of the kidney, 



839841 ; on fatty liver, 929 



Brain, see Encephalon, Cerebrum, Cerebellum, 



&c. 

 Brewster, Sir D., his law of visible direction, 



543 



Bright's disease of the Kidney, 707 d 

 Brodie, Sir B., his experiments on the Par Va- 



gum, 414, a; on animal heat, 890 

 Bronchial tubes, contractility of, 410, 759 

 Brunner's glands, 875 



Buchanan, Dr., his researches on the blood re- 

 ferred to, 697 e 



Budd, Dr. W., his cases of reflex action re- 

 ferred to, 365 369 ; his observations on 

 symmetrical diseases referred to, 785, 882 

 Buffy coat, 704, 705 

 Bulbus arteriosus, 940, 943 

 Bushmen, 70 



