414 
Blood, coagulation of (continued) : 
effect of temperature on, 116. 
vital theory of, 121; experiment demonstrating, 
I2I. 
influence of contact with ordinary solids on, 127, 
128, 191; experiments on this point, 125, 126, 
128. 
neither oxygen nor rest has any influence, 132. 
summary of process, 132, 133. ; 
and inflammation, 133; experiment on this point, 
133- 
in its practical aspects, 180. 
AUTHOR’S EXPERIMENTS, IQI. 
relation of tissues to, 242. 
in vein of amputated sheep’s foot produced by 
foreign solid substances, 241. : 
takes place more slowly the later it is examined 
after death or amputation, 241 (footnote). 
See also Coagulation. 
Blood, constitution of, 109. 
Blood corpuscles. See Corpuscle. 
Blood fibrine: nature of, 1009. 
Blood, fluidity of : after death, 75; J. Hunter’s ob- 
servations on, 75. 
phenomena due to residual activity in tissues, 
70. 
continues longer in small vessels than in large, 
80, 82. 
in senile gangrene (Gillespie’s case), 80. 
in meningitis (Gairdner’s case), 80. 
in complication of medical and surgical com- 
plaints, 80; observations showing this, 80. 
persistence of, in vessels of amputated limb, 86. 
E. Briicke’s observations on, 108. 
in air-tight receptacles, 113. 
not due to active operation of living vessels, 
198. 
persists in amputated healthy limb, 241. 
Blood, healthy: no spontaneous coagulation of, 
192. 
Blood of horse: rapid subsidence of red corpuscles 
in plasma, 107; ‘sizy’ layer in, 107; experi- 
ment on coagulation of, 108, 189. 
Blood, inflammatory : buffy coat in, 216. 
Blood : influence of living vessels on, 79. 
Blood pressure : untrustworthiness of haemodyna- 
mometric tracings of, 180. 
author’s method of making blood stream write 
its own record, 180, 188. 
Leonard Landois’s method, 181 (footnote). 
systolic and diastolic, relative amounts of, 180, 
181. 
Stephen Hales’s manometrical experiment on, 
181. 
Blood: putrefactive fermentation of, 337 
no inherent tendency in, to putrefy, 33 
Blood, putrefying: organisms in, 338. 
Blood serum. See Serum. 
Blood, stagnation of: produced by local appli- 
cation of chloroform, 226; caused by local 
application of heat, 230; by mechanical irri- 
tation, 230. 
Blood in vessels has no spontaneous tendency to 
coagulate, 127; action of living membrane of 
vessels on, 127. 
Blood vessels: influence of nervous system on, 27. 
dilatation of, by stimulus due to effect on 
_ hhervous centres for arteries, 97. 
injury of, and coagulation, 122. 
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Blood vessels (continued) : 
walls of, deprived of vital properties cause co- 
agulation, 123. 
structures and functions of, 218. 
loss of vitality of walls of, in inflammation, 269. 
Blood-vessels of face : Waller and Budge on regula- 
tion of, by spinal cord, 28. 
Blood-vessels, large: lose vital properties sooner 
than others, 123. 
Bloodless method : Esmarch’s, 177 ; bleeding follow- 
ing itsapplication, 183; no effect on sensation 
or motor power, 183. 
Bloodlessness: production of, in arm, 176; pro- 
duced in limb by position and elastic bandage, 
177; experiment on horse, 177. 
Bowman: on contractile fibres of iris, 1; on me- 
chanism of contraction of pupil, 4; criticism 
of his views, 6. 
Brachial artery. See Artery. 
Brain: temporary constriction of arteries conse- 
quent on removal of, in frog, 33. 
Brain, ‘anaemia ’ of: caused by unwonted eleva- 
tion of head, 173. 
Brain, posterior part of : mechanical irritation of, 
followed by improvement in circulation, 93. 
galvanization of, inhibits heart (Weber), 93. 
Brain and spinal cord: permanent dilatation of 
arteries after removal of, 38. 
Bramah press: application of principle of, to 
treatment of wound of palmar arch, 186. 
Breast, abscess of: following local chill, 407. 
Breathing, obstruction of: during chloroform 
administration, 143. 
not caused by ‘falling back’ of tongue, 144. 
treatment of, 148; by dashing of cold water on 
face and chest, 148; by galvanism, 148. 
Breathing, stertorous: in chloroform anaesthesia, 
143: impossible when the tongue is pulled 
forward, 144; of two kinds: palatine and 
laryngeal, 144; vibration of arytaenic-epiglot- 
tidean folds in, 145. 
British Medical Association: experiments of Chloro- 
form Committee, 158; ethidene recommended 
by, asa substitute for chloroform, 175. 
Brown-Séquard : on elevation of local temperature 
after division of sympathetic nerve in neck, 
27. 
on increase of temperature in paralysed parts 
after transverse section of spinal cord in birds 
and mammals, 28. 
Bricke, E.: observations on the variations in 
colour of the skin of the frog, 48. 
holds that fluidity of blood in living body 
depends on action of vessels, 108 (footnote). 
his experiments on turtles, 108 (footnote). 
his experiments on coagulation of blood in 
turtles and frogs, IIT. 
inquiry into conditions determining coagulation, 
191; author’s investigations, I9I. 
Buchanan, Andrew: coagulation of hydrocele 
fluid by addition of serum of coagulated 
blood, 129, 189. 
Buchner: experimental development of Bacillus 
anthracis out of progeny of hay bacillus, 394. 
Buffy coat in inflammatory blood, Wharton Jones’s 
explanation of, 216. 
in healthy horse’s blood, 217. 
Bullae: occurring after contusion, 271; mistaken 
for gangrene, 271. 
