900 



INDEX 



BLOOD-CORPUSCLES, RED. 



Blood-corpuscles, red continued 



stroma, 454 



tendency to adhere, ib. 



vertebrate, various, ib. 



Blood-corpuscles, white, 11, 61, 298, 299, 315, 449, 

 456 



amoeboid movements of, 457 



chemistry of, 461 



composition of, 456 



formation in spleen, 334 



origin of, 461 



varieties, 456 

 Blood-crystals, 462 et seq. 

 Blood-flow, velocity of, 281 

 Blood-gas analysis, apparatus for. 364 

 Blood-platelets, 444, 448, 458 

 Blood -pressure, 266 et seq. 



arterial, 277, 280 



in capillaries, 276 



in veins, 275 



action of respiratory movements on, 300 

 influence of cardiac nerves on, 281 



measurement in man, 277 



schema to illustrate, 267 et seq. 

 Blood-vessels, 



circulation in, 263 et seq. 

 effect of gravity, 279 

 time of complete, 289 



elasticity of, 265 



of eyeball, 820 



nutrient, 42 



of kidney, 569 



of muscle, 71 



of stomach, 509 



influence of nervous system on, 300 

 Body-cavity, 884 

 Body, growth and maintenance of, 626 



synthesis in the, ib. 



Body, the chemical composition of, 406 et seq. 

 Bohr on mountain sickness, 400 

 Boiler-makers' disease, 798 

 Bomb calorimeter, 631 

 Bone, 40 et seq. 



canalicull, 42 



cancellous, 40 



cells or corpuscles, 43 



chemical composition, 40 



compact, 40 

 lamellae of, 44 



development, 45 et seq. 



growth, 50 



Haversian canals, 42 



lacunae, 42, 43 



marrow, 41 



medullary canal, 41 



microscopic structure, 42 



ossification in cartilage, 46 et seq. 



ossification in membrane, 45 



periosteum and nutrient blood-vessels, 42 



structure, 40 et seq. 

 Bowman, 



on muscle, 65 

 Bowman's capsule, 566, 567, 576, 579 



glands, 784 



lamina, 812 



renal epithelium, 576, 577 

 Boyle-Mariotte's law for gases, 325 

 Brain. See Bulb, Cerebellum, Cerebrum, Pons, etc. 



capillaries of, 312 



child's, 691, 730, 739 



chimpanzee's, 731 



circulation of blood in, 312 et seq. 



convolutions, 690 et seq. 



diagrams of, 642, 643, 645, 646, 665 et seq. 



dog's, 729 



extirpation of, in mammals, 723 



CALLEJA, ISLANDS OF. 

 Brain continued 



in foetus, 645, 691 



grey matter, 181 



lobes, 691 et seq. 



lunatic's, 751 



monkey's, 691 



motor areas, 731, 733 



orang's, 691, 731 



primitive, 645 



quantity of blood in, 312, 313 



sensori-motor area, 734 



sensory areas, 733 



structure, 643 



ventricles, 644 



vertebrate (section), 643 



vesicles, 645 



white matter, 181 

 Bread as food, 489 

 Breathing. See Respiration. 

 Bright's disease, 600, 603 

 Broca's convolution, 733, 734, 809 

 Brodie, on splenic nerve, 133 



curves of extensibility, 110 



his bellows-recorder, 134, 311 



on heat rigor, 139 



rate of blood-flow through an organ, 396 

 Bronchi, arrangement and structure of, 347 

 Bronchial arteries and veins, 353 

 Brown's staminal hairs of Tradescantia, 13 

 Brown-Sequard, suprarenal capsules, 341 



on testis, 878 

 Brownian movement, 81 

 Bruch, membrane of, 811, 812 

 Briicke on the self-steering action of the heart, 



238 



Brunner's glands, 494, 509 

 Brunton, after Gaskell, tracing of actions of 



vagus on the heart, 250 

 Buchanan, heart beats, 244 

 Buffy coat, formation of, 447 

 Bulb, pons and mid-brain, 661 et seq. 



anterior aspect, 661 



diagrams of, 662, 665 et seq. 



internal structure, 663 et seq. 



posterior aspect, 661 

 Bundle of Helweg, 656, 657 



of His, 213, 257 



of Monakow, 657, 683, 685 

 Burch's experiments on colour vision, 844 

 Burdach's column, 651, 657, 658, 662 

 Btitschli on spongioplasm, 7 

 Butyric acid, 411, 526 



c. 



Cachexia strumipriva, 338 



Caecum, the, 560 



Caffeine, 490 



Caisson disease, 403 



Cajal, formation of nerve axons, 153 



law of axipetal conduction, 191 

 Calamus scriptorius, 680 

 Calcarine area, 786 

 Calcarine fissure, 694 

 Calcification of bone, 47 

 Calcium carbonate, 40, 54 



in urine, 600 



fluoride, 40, 54 



metabolism, 340 



oxalate in urine, 599, 600 



phosphate, 40, 54, 600 



rigor, 261 



Calcium salts, the action of, 449 

 Calleja, islands of, 675 



