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INDEX. 



"Spleen-pulp," destruction of red cor- 

 puscles in, 36 

 Spring-manometer, 245 

 Stagnation stage of inflammation, 359 

 Stasis of circulation in inflammation, 



359 



Stearin, its presence in blood, 51 

 Stellate ganglion, composite nature of 



the, 316 

 Stimuli denned, 57 



,, various kinds of, 60 

 ,, necessary characters of, 140 

 Stolnikoff's method of measuring the 



'out-put' of the heart, 247 

 Striation of muscle-tissue, 91 



,, of cardiac muscle- tissue, 304 

 Stroma of red corpuscles, its composi- 

 tion, 32 

 embryonic formation of, from 



protoplasm, 36 



Stromuhr of Ludwig described, 223 

 Substance, living, compared with dead, 



3, 97 

 ,, ,, metabolic changes in, 



41-43 

 ,, ,, chemical composition 



of, 43 



Sugar, its presence in the blood, 52 

 Sulphur in proteids, 17 

 Sympathetic system, fibres to plain 



muscles supplied by, 158, 162 

 Sympathetic system, its connection with 

 spinal nerves, 173 

 ,, ganglia of the, 178 



Syntonin, 99 

 Systole, auricular and ventricular, 231- 



235 



,, ventricular, a simple contrac- 

 tion, 240 



and diastole, comparative dura- 

 tion of, 262-264 

 ,, amount of blood driven by each, 



203, 267 

 ,, work of papillary muscles in, 



233, 234 

 Systolic plateau, the, 247, 252, 256, 266 



Tambour, Marey's, 242 

 Tambour-sphygmograph of Hiirthle, 270 

 Temperature of living bodies, 2 

 as affecting clotting, 20 



irritability, 145, 148 

 ,, ,, plain muscle, 163 



,, ,, ciliary action, 167 



,, ,, vaso- motor fibres, 



333, 353 

 Tetanic contraction, its nature, 59 



,, due to repetition of 



stimuli, 59, 141 

 Tetanus, phenomena of, 79-84 



,, carbonic acid evolved during, 



105 



exhaustion of irritability from, 

 152 



Thermopile, various forms of, 107 

 Thrombi, white, their nature, 49 

 Tigerstedt, his method of measuring 



cardiac out-put, 248 

 Tissue, connective, 189-192 

 Tissues not indispensable for life, 3 



,, classification of, 6 



,, similarity of histological ele- 

 ments of, 41 



,, contractile, 55-170 



,, nervous, 171-187 



vascular, 188 et supra 

 Tone, arterial, 326, 350 



general, 338-346 



,, bulbar vaso-motor centre for, 342- 

 349 



,, intrinsic nature of, 349 

 Tortoise, persistence of ventricular beat 



in, 301-304 

 Tricuspid valves, 232 

 Tuning-fork, velocity measured by, 71, 



72 



Unit, physiological, defined, 6 

 Urari, the nature of its action, 58, 88 

 Urea a constituent of the blood, 52 

 ,, absent from muscle-tissue, 104 

 ,, as nitrogenous waste, 104 

 Utricle, primordial, 4 



Vagus, inhibitory action of, 184 



,, government of heart beat by, in 



frog, 244, 306 

 ,, cardiac augmentor and inhibitory 



fibres in, 296, 307, 333 

 Valves of veins, 199, 221 

 of the heart, 199 

 ,, their action in circula- 

 tion, 232-235 

 ,, sounds caused by their 



closure, 239, 240 

 ,, ,, tricuspid, their action, 



233 



,, ,, semilunar, of the pul- 

 monary artery, 

 234 



of aorta, 239, 257 

 Eustachian, 232 

 Vasa vasorum of arteries, 197 



of veins, 199 

 Vascular mechanism, 188-376 



,, main features of, apparatus, 



200 

 main regulators of, apparatus, 



289, 305, 324 

 walls, their action on the blood, 



27 



,, ,, alteration of, in inflam- 



mation, 359 

 Vaso-motor action, 324-354 



,, ,, arterial tone due to, 326 



effects of, 338 



,, ,, cutaneous and splanch- 



nic, compensatory, 373 



