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INDEX. 



Corpuscles, red, microscopic appearance, 



31 



,, structure, 32 



,, ,, chemical composition, 



33 

 ,, ,, as oxygen bearers, 33, 



35, 38 

 ,, ,, formed in red marrow 



of bones, 37 

 ,, ,, their passage through 



the capillaries, 356 

 ,, ,, diapedesis of, 359 



,, white (see also Leucocytes) 

 ,, their connection with 



clotting, 29 



,, ,, appearance and struc- 



ture of, 38, 39 



,, amoeboid movements of , 



38, 42, 47, 168, 356, 

 358 



,, chemistry of, 40, 52 



,, ,, type of all living tissue, 



41, 44 



,, ,, origin of, 44 



,, ,, migration of, 45, 358 



,, ,, work done by, 46 



,, their action as phago- 



cytes, 46, 47 



,, ,, different forms of, 47 



,, nuclear network in, 47 



,, ,, their behaviour in in- 



flammation, 336-338 

 Cramp abolished by electrotonus, 135 

 Crassamentum or clot, 15 

 Currents of action in a muscle, 113 

 ,, in a nerve, 125 



,, of rest in a muscle or nerve, 



109, 125 



,, _ in electrotonus, 133 



,, electrical, constant and in- 

 duced, 60, 61 



interrupted or faradaic, 66 

 ,, electrotonic, 132 

 Curves, mode of measuring, 236, note 

 Cycle, cardiac, described, 232, 264 

 , ,, duration of phases, 262 



Death, a gradual process, 1 



,, slow clotting of blood after, 27 



of blood corpuscles, 38, 46 

 ,, from failure of heart's action, 



369 



Degeneration of severed nerve, 146, 147 

 ,, of muscle after severance 



of nerve, 147 



,, of constrictor prior to di- 



lator fibres in severed 

 nerve, 333 



Depressor nerve, 343, 375 

 Despretz signal, 74, 75 

 Diapedesis of red corpuscles, 359 

 Diastole of heart's action, 232, 235 

 Dicrotic wave, origin of, 282-287 

 Dicrotism in pulse tracings, 280 



Dicrotism less marked in rigid arteries, 



283 

 Differential manometer of Hurthle, 254, 



255 

 Distress from undue exertion, nature of, 



374 



Division of labour, physiological, 6 

 Dudgeon's sphygmograph, 271 



Elastic fibres in connective tissue, 192 



,, membrane of arteries, 195 

 Elasticity, diminished, in exhausted 



muscles, 152 



,, of arteries, as affecting 



circulation, 214 



,, ,, as affecting dicro- 



tism, 285 



Elastin in yellow elastic fibres, 192 

 Electric changes during muscle contrac- 

 tion, 108 



,, ,, in a nerve impulse, 125 



stimuli described, 60 

 ,, organs of certain animals, 122, 



157 



Electrotonic currents, 132 

 Electrotonus, features of, 130 

 Embryo of mammal, origin of red cor- 

 puscles in, 36, 37 

 ,, ,, glycogen in muscles of, 



103 

 End-plates of nerves, probable action of 



urari on, 59 



,, the two parts of, 121 

 ,, their analogy with electric 

 organs of animals, 122, 

 157 



Endocardium, its structure, 199 

 Energy, potential, of living and dead 



bodies, 1 

 ,, of living body expended in 



, work, 2 



,, of dead body shewn as heat, 3 

 ,, renewed and set free by diffe- 

 rent tissues, 6 



,, of muscle and nerve, 153-157 

 Eosinophile cells, 48 

 Epithelioid or endothelioid cells of ca- 

 pillaries, 193 

 Epithelium of arteries, 195 



ciliated, 164 



Eustachian valve in adult life, 232 

 Exercise, effect of, on the muscles, 150 

 ,, ,, on vascular mecha- 



nism, 372, 373 



Exhaustion of muscle and nerve tissue, 

 145, 151, 152 



Fainting, a result of cardiac inhibition, 



314, 368 

 Faradization, 67 



Fatigue, its effect on muscular irrita- 

 bility, 142, 151, 322 

 ,, sense of, its nature, 151 

 Fats, in white corpuscles, 42 



