INDEX. 



1331 



" Luxus consumption" of food, 393, 627 



Lymph, the, a medium of exchange be- 

 tween blood and tissues, 13, 14, 403; 

 salts present in, 39 ; migration of white 

 corpuscles into, 292 ; coagulable, in in- 

 flammation, ib.y microscopical charac- 

 ters of, 400; clotting of, 400; chemical 

 composition of, varying, 401 ; total 

 diurnal flow, 403 ; movements of, 403 ; 

 its flow increased by muscular move- 

 ments, 405 ; transudation of, nature of 

 the process, 406; its functions in the 

 eye, 971 



capillaries, compared with blood 



capillaries, 398 



corpuscles, 400 



spaces, passage of the white corpus- 

 cles into, 43 



Lymphatic arrangements of brain and 

 cord, 824 



Lymphatic glands, their influence on 

 lymph, 401; lymphatic system, 398; 

 prominence of, in infancy, 1148 



Lymphatics of the eye, 970-975 



Magnetic interrupter, 63 



Majendie, foramen of, 826 



Making and breaking currents and 

 shocks, 57-65; contractions with the 

 constant current, 111 



Male breathing, diaphragmatic character 

 of, 433 



Male organs of reproduction, 1114 



Malleus, the, 986 



Maltose, 315 



Mammary gland, 610; changes in, during 

 secretion, 610; dormant, characters of, 

 611; at birth, 615; relations of, to the 

 nervous system, 618 



Manometer, for measuring blood-press- 

 ure, 156, 157 ; maximum and minimum, 

 210, 211; endocardiac pressure shewn 

 by, 191-197; Gad's manometer, 196; 

 Krehl's, ib.; Fick's, 220; vaso-motor 

 actions observed by, 277 



Marey's pneumograph, 430 ; tambour, 192 



Marrow, red, formation of red corpuscles 

 in, 35 ; yellow, of bones, 605 



Massage, metabolism excited by, 669 



Mastication, how effected, 372 



Meatus, auditory, external, 983 ; internal, 

 993 



Meconium, 1127; sources of, 1131; chemi- 

 cal composition, 1131 



Medulla, loss of, in vaso-constrictor 

 fibres, 274; retention of in vaso-dilator 

 fibres, 275 



oblongata, cardiac effect of stimula- 

 tion of, 249 ; centre for nerves of taste 

 in, 277; for vaso-motor impulses in, 

 277-280; for constrictor impulses in, 

 279-284; for secretion of saliva, 335; 



for deglutition, 375; for vomiting, 380; 

 for respiration, 473; effect on blood- 

 pressure of successive sections of, 283; 

 diabetic area of, 575 ; see also Bulb 



Meibomian glands, 978 



Melting-point of various fats, 606 



Membrana pupillaris, absorption of, be- 

 fore birth, 838; tympani, 983, 989 



Membrane-manometer of Hurthle, 194- 

 196; 219 



Meniere's disease, 733 



Menstruation, 1111-1113; causation of, 

 1112 



Mercurial gas-pump, Ludwig's, 444, 445 ; 

 Pfliiger's, 445; Alvergniat's, 446 



Metabolic processes of body, 559 



Metabolism, defined, 39 ; water of, 41, 42 ; 

 increased by exercise, 305 ; by proteid 

 food, 617, 626,654; of muscle, products 

 of, 591; of nervous tissue, 592; of 

 glands, 593; proteid, its complexity, 

 599; nitrogenous, 625; products of, 

 653; of muscle, the chief source of 

 heat, 639; conducted in the tissues, 

 651 ; course of products of, 653 ; nervous 

 control of, 654 ; rapidity of, in infancy, 

 1147 



Metals, retention of, in the liver, 355 



Metameres, hypothetical, of spinal cord, 

 139, 140 



Methaemoglobin, spectrum of, 460 



Micro-organisms, their actions in diges- 

 tion, 394 ; in expired air, 442 



Micro-unit of heat defined (footnote), 96 



Micturition, mechanism of, 545; nervous 

 mechanism of, 546; centre for, 547; 

 voluntary and involuntary, 548 



Migration of the white corpuscles, 43 ; in 

 inflammation, 292; aided by changes 

 in vascular walls, 294 



Milk, action of gastric juice on, 327, 329; 

 of rennet on, 330; double mode of 

 secretion of, 616; nature of, 612; con- 

 stituents of, 613; uterine, 1122, 1129 



Millon's reagent for detection of protein, 

 17 



Mitral valves, their action, 185 



Molecular basis of chyle, 403; where 

 elaborated, 418 



Moll, glands of, 978 



Morse key, 59 



Movements in living bodies, 2; amoe- 

 boid, 36, 37, 137, 292; of body, how 

 accomplished, 51 ; ciliary, 52, 134 ; mus- 

 cular, heat given out during, 95, 644; 

 cardiac, visible, 181; of alimentary 

 canal, 371-387; gastric, 383; intestinal, 

 ib. ; amoeboid, of lymph corpuscles, 

 400; Brownian, in chyle globules, 403; 

 muscular, flow of lymph increased by, 

 404; respiratory, 428; bilateral, 760; 

 coordinating machinery of, 729; of 



