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INDEX 



Neuroptera, 60 



New York, malnourished school children, 



157 

 Newt, 116 

 Nigel! a, 12 

 Nissl substance (see under Nervous system, 



Brain and Spinal cord) 

 Noctiluca, 15, 16, 18 

 Nitrogen or nitrates, in invertebrates, 32 



in plants, 6, 7, 11, 14 

 Nucleus (see also Nucleus-plasma ratio and 

 under various organs) 

 invertebrate, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25 



3°, 37, 38, 42, 54, 56 

 plant, 5, 7, 9, n 

 Nucleus-plasma ratio, invertebrate, 16, 18, 

 30, 46, 55 

 vertebrate, 121, 338, 345, 358, 426, 458 

 Nutrition, relation to morphology, 461 



Oat, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 



Obesity cures by aqueous inanition, 115, 



259 

 Oenocytes, 61 



Oertel's obesity cure, 115, 259 

 Old age (senile atrophy), organ weights, 175, 



225, 271, 373, 404 

 Omentum (see under Intestines) 

 Onion, 5, 11 

 Ophyra, 61 



Order of sequence in loss of organs, 43, 44 

 Orthoptera, 27, 60 

 Ostnia (bee), 65 



Osteoid substance (see under Rickets) 

 Osteomalacia (see under Rickets) 

 Osteoporosis (see under Skeleton) 

 Otosclerosis, 142 



Ovary (see also Gonads, and Reproductive 

 tract), 389-399 

 invertebrate, 28, 29, 35, 43, 44, 46, 58 

 ovum, 28, 29, 46, 52, 57, 61, 63, 66 

 partial inanition, 390, 398-399 

 aqueous inanition, 399 

 pellagra, 398 

 protein deficiency, 398 

 rickets, 398 

 vitamin A, 399 

 B (beriberi), 399 

 C (scurvy), 399 

 recovery on refeeding, 3S9, 390, 391, 392, 



395, 396, 397, 398 



size or weight, 389, 391, 392, 394, 395, 



396, 397, 398, 399, 464, 465, 467, 

 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 

 477, 478 



Ovary, structural changes, and effect on off- 

 spring, 389 



in amenorrhea, 389, 390, 391, 392,398 



congestion, 397, 399 



corpora lutea, 389, 392, 394 



cystic, 392 



and endocrine function, 391, 392 



in fasting salmon, 390, 397 



fat content, 398 



germinal epithelium, 392, 394 



Graafian follicles, 389, 390, 391, 392, 

 393, 394, 396, 397, 398, 399 



in hibernation, 397, 398 



"hypotypical" condition, 397 



inflammatory lesions, 398 



interstitial cells, 390, 392, 395, 398, 



399 

 leukocytes, 393 

 mitochondria, 394 

 mitosis of granulosa cells, 397 

 ova, vertebrate, 68, 76, 116, 390, 392, 



393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398 

 ovogenesis, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 399 

 phagocytosis, 389, 393 

 pigment, 394 



reduction to neutral condition, 397 

 and sex determination, 389 

 and sex development, 390, 392, 394, 



395, 398 

 and sterility, 396, 398 

 stroma (fibrosis), 392, 393, 397 

 summary of effects on, 389-390 

 total inanition, 389-398 

 animal, 398 

 hibernation and seasonal changes, 390 



397-398 

 human adult, 389, 390-392 

 infant, 392 

 Oviducts, 42, 395, 400, 470 

 Ovum (see under Ovary) 

 Oxygen deficiency, 116, 229, 256-257, 444 

 Oyster, 57 



Pancreas, 345-3 5 5 



partial inanition, 346, 354-355 



aqueous inanition (thirst), 346, 355 

 malnutritional edema, 354 

 pellagra, 354 

 protein, 346, 354 

 rickets, 346, 354 

 vitamin A, 354 



B (beriberi), 346, 354 

 C (scurvy), 346, 355 

 recovery on refeeding, 345, 346/348, 349, 

 35i, 352 



