INDEX 



SS9 



Blood Cont'd 

 quantity of, in body, 85 

 refractive index of, 88 

 specific gravity of, 86 

 sugar level of, 657 



regulation, 671 

 transfusion of, 93, 135, 139 

 viscosity of, 140 

 volume of, 136 

 water content of, 86 

 Blood cell, red, fate of, 93 

 origin of, 92 

 regeneration of, 93 

 stroma of, 91 

 white, 96 

 Blood clotting, 98 

 in diseases, 111 

 in physiologic conditions, 110 

 influence of calcium on, 103 

 influence of tissues on, 104 

 intravascular, 107 



methods of retarding, in drawn blood, 

 99 



negative phase of, 108 

 theories of, 106 

 time of, 100, 108 

 visible changes during, 98 

 Blood corpuscles in mountain sickness, 401 

 Bloodflow : 



clinical conditions affecting anemia, 283 

 cardiovascular diseases, 284 

 fever, 284 



diseases of nervous system, 285 

 mass movement of, 208 

 movement in veins, 214 

 variations in, 282 

 velocity of, 206 

 visceral, 212 



Blood gas manometer, 381 

 Blood platelets, 97 

 Blood pressure, 122 

 diastolic, 127 



effect of hemorrhage on, 135 

 effect of pleural pressure on, 306 

 factors maintaining, 134 

 H-ion of blood on, 237 

 mean arterial, 123 

 in shock, 290 

 systolic, 127 

 tracing, 125 

 Blood vessels, 880 

 elasticity of, 142 

 tone of, 236 



Body fluids, reactions of, 35 

 Body weight and energy production, 539 

 Botulism, 503 

 Bowman, capsule of, 507 

 Bradycardia, 193 

 Brain : 



circulation in, 247 

 vasomotor nerves, 252 

 volume of,' 250 



Breathing, in compressed air, 399 



in rarefied air, 360 



periodic, 363, 371, 376 

 Brownian movement, colloids, 57 

 Bruits, 158 



Buffer action of blood, 374 

 Buffer substances, 36 

 Building stones of protein, 597 

 Bulbosacral outflow, 882 

 Butyric acid, 709 



C 



Cadaverine, 629 

 Caffeine, 635 

 Caisson disease, 402 

 cause of, 403 



decompression of workers, 406 

 prevention, 404 

 symptoms, 402 

 working conditions in, 408 

 Calcium ion, influence on clotting, 103 



influence on heart, 166 

 Calcium rigor, 166 

 Calomel electrode, 30 

 Calorie, 535 

 Calorimeter, 535 

 animal, 536 

 Benedict, 537 

 bomb, 537 

 hand, 281 

 respiration, 536 

 Eussel-Sage, 537 

 Calorimetry, direct, 546 



indirect, 546, 554 

 Canals, semicircular, 873 



removal of, 874 

 Cannabin, 577 ' 



Capillary analysis of colloids, 56 

 Carbamino reaction, 599 

 Carbohydrates, absorption of, 657 

 assimilation limits, 652 

 digestion of, 656 

 and growth, 583 

 metabolism of, 652 

 production from protein, 665 

 saturation limit, 652 

 Carbon balance, 547 

 Carbon dioxide, combining power, 42 

 effect on respiratory center, 352 

 estimation in blood, 390 

 output, 550 



volume percentage in blood, 391 

 Carbon dioxide tension, 337 



in alveolar air, after exercise, 367 

 estimation of, 339, 344 

 in mountain sickness, 361 

 in periodic breathing, 375 

 in arterial blood, 337 

 in venous blood, 342 

 Carbonic acid (see Carbon dioxide) 

 Carboxyl group, 598 

 Cardiac decompensation, 311 



