338 INDEX. 



Braconnot. On the presence of lactic acid in gastric juice, 112; 

 of iron in the gastric juice of the dog, 113. 



Brain. See Acid, Cerehric, and Nervous Matter. 



Bread. Analj^sis of, 285. 



Brunn. His analysis of sugar of milk, 298. 



Buckwheat. Analysis of starch from, 296. 



BuRDACH. His statement of the amount of bile secreted by ani- 

 mals, 64. 



Butter. Forms a part of the food of soldiers in Germany, 286, 

 288. 



Buzzard. Its excrements consist of urate of ammonia, 54. 



C. 



Caffeine. Identical ^vith theine, 179. Its relation to taurine 

 and bile, 180. Theory of its mode of action, 181. Its com- 

 position, 324. 



Cane Sugar. Its composition, 300. 



Carbon. Is accumulated in the bile, 61. Is given off as car- 

 bonic acid, 13. Excess of carbon causes hepatic diseases, 24. 

 By combining with oxygen, it yields the greater part of the 

 animal heat. See Animal Heat, Bile, and Acid, Carbonic. 

 Amount of carbon oxidised daily in the body of a man, 14. 

 Calculations on which this statement is founded, 284 — 289. 

 Amount consumed by the horse and cow, 14. Different pro- 

 portions of carbon in different kinds of food, 17. Carbon of 

 flesh compared with that of starch, shewing the advantage of 

 a mixed diet, 76. Calculation on which this statement is 

 founded, 299. Amount of carbon in dry blood calculated, 283. 

 Amount in the food of prisoners calculated, 293. 



Carbonic Acid. See Acid, Carbonic. 



Carbonates. They occur in the blood, 41. 



Calculus, Mulberry. Derived from the imperfect oxidation of 

 uric acid, 137. Uric acid calculus is formed in consequence 

 of deficiency of inspired oxygen, or excess of carbon in the 

 food, 137. See Acid, Uric. Bezoar stones composed of 

 lithofellic acid, 154. 



Carnivora. Their nutrition the most simple, 44. It is ulti- 

 mately derived from vegetables, 48, 49. Their young, like 

 graminivora, require non-azotised compounds in their food, 50. 

 Their bile is formed from the metamorphosis of their tissues. 



