GENERAL INDEX TO THE FIVE VOLUMES. 



505 



Fneumogastric nerve, summary of 

 the properties and functions of, 



iv. 251 



anaesthesia produced by com- 

 pression of (note), iv. 256 



influence of section of, upon 



stomach-digestion, ii. 284 



Poisonous gases, exhalation of, by 



the lungs, i. 450 



Poisons, absorption of, by the lac- 

 teals, ii. 447 



Polar globule, v. 355 



Pons Varolii (see tuber annulare), 



iv. 398 



development of, v. 400 



Pork, ii. 73 



Portal vein (see liver), iii. 235 



secretion of bile after oblit- 

 eration of, .iii. 253 



development of, v. 434 



Porter, ii. 113 



Potato, ii. 98 



composition of, ii. 98 



sweet, ii. 98 



Pregnancy, influence of, upon sub- 

 sequent fecundations, v. 346 



duration of, v. 446-448 



multiple, v. 451 



Fallopian and abdominal, . .v. 452 



Prehension of solids and liquids, 



ii. 137 

 Primitive trace of the embryon, 



v. 358, 359 



Prisms, refraction by, v. 75 



Prostate, v. 321 



Prostatic fluid, v. 321, 324 



Protagon, iv. 57 



Proteine, i. 73 



Protoplasm, iii. 368, 437 



Proximate principles, general con- 

 siderations, i. 20-24 



inorganic, i. 25 



do. (table), i. 28 



organic non-nitrogenized, . .i. 25 



organic nitrogenized, i. 27 



Ptyaline, ii. 171 



action of, upon starch,. . . .ii. 171 



Puberty, v. 300, 459 



Puberty and menstruation, v. 300 



Pulmonary artery, pressure of 



blood in, i. 341 



first appearance of,. . .v. 432, 433 



Pulmonary circulation, first estab- 

 lishment of, at birth, v. 441 



Pulp-cavitv of the teeth ii. 142 



Pulse, mechanism of production of, 



i. 252 



frequency of, i. 212 



form of, i. 254 



dicrotic, i. 257 



variations in the character 



of, i. 260 



influence of temperature on,.i. 260 



Puncta lachrymalia, v. 143 



Punctum caecum, v. 87, 90 



Pupil, v. 51, 402 



Pupillary membrane, v. 54, 402 



Purkinje, vesicle of, v. 291 



Purpurine, iii. 217 



Putrefaction, i. 73 



of the body after death,. . .v. 463 

 Pyloric muscle, ii. 210 



Quadrilateral canal of the cochlea, 



v. 220 



Ration of the British soldier, . .ii. 126 

 of the United States sol- 

 dier, ii. 127 



Receptaculum chyli, discovery of, 



ii. 425 

 Recti muscles of the eyeball, action 



of, v. 133 



Rectum, muscular fibres of,. . . .ii. 387 



mucous membrane of,. . . .ii. 390 



Recurrent laryngeal branches of 

 the pneumogastrics (see pneu- 



mogastric), iv. 220 



Recurrent sensibility of the ante- 

 rior roots of the spinal nerves, 



iv. 81 



Reflex action, definition of, iv. 299 



of the brain, in dreams,, .iv. 



300,449 



of the spinal cord, iv. 300 



in animals poisoned with 



strychnine or opium, iv. 310 



in decapitated animals, . . .iv. 311 



of the sympathetic system, 



iv. 429, 437 



Refraction by lenses, v. 77 



Refraction, mechanism of, in the 



eye, v. 89 



by the cornea and crystal- 

 line lens, v, 91 



Regurgitation from the stomach, 



ii. 292 



Reissner, membrane of, v. 215 



Remak, fibres of, iv. 24, 425 



Rennet i. 87 



