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INDEX. 



Bacteria, ingestion of, by white cor- 

 puscles, 46-48 

 Bands, bright and dim, in muscle tissue, 



91 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, in cardiac tissue, 



291 

 Bidder's ganglia in heart of frog, 294, 



295 



Bilirubin, its relation with haematin, 35 

 Blood, the, 13-54 



an internal medium of inter- 

 changes, 13, 188, 193 

 clotting of, 15-30 



,, ,, circumstances affecting, 20 



,, ,, causes of, 26 



,, its relation to vascular walls, 27, 



360 



,, corpuscles, see Corpuscles 

 ,, 'laky,' how formed, 32 

 ,, chemical composition, 50-52 

 ,, specific gravity, 50 

 ,, quantity and distribution, 53 

 ,, ,, in a part, mode of measur- 

 ing, 332 



,, ,, results of changes in, 362 

 rate of flow in vessels, 222, 227, 



228 

 ,, ,, ,, dependence of, on vaso- 



motor action, 338 

 ,, amount driven by each heart 



beat, 203, 267 

 quality of, its effect on heart 



beat, 321 



,, ,, its effect on peri- 



pheral resistance, 

 361 



,, ,, as affected by exer- 



cise, 372 



,, circulation of, see Circulation 

 ,, pressure, arterial and venous 

 compared, 203-211, 216 

 ,, ,, in arteries, 203-211 



,, ,, how measured, 204 et supra 

 ,, ,, in veins, 205, 209 



mode of registering, 206 

 in capillaries, 210-213, 216 

 ,, phenomena of, 213 



,, ,, its relation to peripheral 



resistance, 213-220 

 ,, ,, artificial scheme of, 217- 



221 



,, ,, endocardiac, 241-247 

 M ,, aortic and ventricular com- 



pared, 253-260, 287 

 ,, ,, negative, 267 

 > ,, as affected by cardiac in- 



hibition, 312 



,, ,, by stimulation of de- 



pressor, 343 

 M ,, ,, by stimulation of sciatic, 



344 



. by action of drugs, 361 

 > , ,, by changes in amount of 

 blood, 362, 363 



Blood pressure, heart beat in inverse ratio 



to, 323 



,, serum, constituents of, 19 

 ,, supply, its influence on muscular 



irritability, 149 



,, ventricular ' out-put ' of, 247 

 ,, vessels, their influence on fluidity 



of, 28 



Blushing, its cause, 352, 371 

 Body, the, characteristics of in life and 



death, 1, 2 



Bois-Keymond, du, key, 61 

 ,, ,, on muscle-currents, 



111, 112 

 Brachial flexus, constrictor and dilator 



fibres in, 333 



Buffy coat of clotted blood, 16 

 Bulbus arteriosus, absence of nerves in, 

 293 



Calcium salts, their presence necessary 



in clotting of blood, 26 

 Canalis auricularis in lower vertebrates, 



294 

 Capillaries described, 13 



their permeability, 13, 193- 



202 



,, structure, 190 

 ,, blood-interchanges effected in, 



13, 188, 193 

 calibre, 194, 355 

 ,, plasmatic layer in, 356 

 ,, proportion of sectional area 



of, to aorta, 201, 212 

 ,, measurements of blood pres- 

 sure in, 210 

 ,, disappearance of pulse in, 



211 

 ,, peripheral resistance in, 210- 



213, 216 

 Capillary circulation, normal phenomena 



of, 211, 355 



,, ,, as affected by inflam- 



mation, 357 

 Carbohydrates in white corpuscles, 41 



,, in muscle-substance, 103 



Cardiographic tracings, 250, 259 

 Cardio-inhibitory centre, 310, 313 

 Cardiometer, Eoy and Adami's, 249 

 Cells, ciliary, 164 



,, ,, action of chloroform on, 168 

 connective tissue, 189 

 ,, differentiation of, during develop- 

 ment of ovum, 6 

 ,, endocardial, 199 

 epithelioid, of capillaries, 193 

 ,, of arteries, 195 



,, epithelium, 165 

 ganglionic, of heart, 294, 296 

 ,, ,, of spinal cord, 175-178 



,, nerve, of splanchnic ganglia, 178 

 ,, ,, of central nervous system, 



179-181 

 of Purkinje", 293 



