418 
Corpuscles, blood, white: aggregation of, 214. 
appearance of, in irritated part, 237. 
free from adhesiveness in healthy part, 238. 
Cotton wool: sterilization of, 236 (footnote). 
Counter-irritation: erroneously regarded as ex- 
ploded, 400. 
applied to loins in suppression of urine, 401. 
physiological, 402 ; examples of, 402, 403. 
as a means of treating inflammation, 403. 
examples of its action, 403. 
in inflammation, explanation of its action, 403. 
Counting bacteria: method of, 348. j 
Crico-thyroid membrane: opening of, in respira- 
tory obstruction during chloroform adminis- 
tration, 148. 
Croonian Lecture on Coagulation of the Blood, 109. 
Curare. See Urari. 
Cutaneous pigmentary system of the frog, 48. 
Cutis anserina: KGlliker’s explanation of, 9. 
induced by artificial excitation of cutis, 12. 
Davaine: described bacterium of splenic fever, 
387 (footnote). 
Davey: observations on coagulation of blood, 75. 
Davy, Humphry: his suggestion of nitrous oxide 
gas as an anaesthetic, 135. 
Death in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary at beginning 
of first operation at which it was intended to 
use chloroform, 138. 
Death from fright when mere profession was made 
of administering chloroform (Snow), 139. 
Death under chloroform: how caused, 137; only 
case of, witnessed by author, 137; result in 
this case attributed by him to shock, 138; 
from mental emotion, 139. 
Decomposition: coagulation of blood in, 81; ob- 
servations on this, 81 (footnote). 
caused by lifeless agents, 339. 
Dentists : chloroform given by, in sitting position, 
147 (footnote). 
Dematium fuscisporum: in milk, 321. 
its bacteric nature, 321. 
a fungus allied to Dematium pullulans, 331. 
different modes of germination, 331. 
Dematium pullulans (de Bary), 321. 
Determination of blood: different from inflamma- 
tory congestion, 231. 
Detrusor: temporary paralysis of, in man, as result 
of injury, 97. 
Dichloride of ethidene more fatal than chloroform, 
175. 
Disease: relations of micro-organisms to, 387. 
Diseases of blood-vessels: causes of coagulation 
of blood in, 69. 
Diseases, zymotic, 335. 
Dropsical effusions: c 
of blood, 130. 
indistinguishable from pure liquor sanguinis, 
130. 
congealed by aqueous humour and by material 
from non-vascular part of cornea (Schmidt), 
bSi 
Dust, atmospheric: filamentous fungi and torulae 
In, 253. 
method of filtration, 354. 
prevention of entrance into glasses, 357. 
Dust: organic germs in, 312. 
oagulability of, on addition 
Ecchymosis, post mortem, 84. 
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EFFECTS OF THE POSITION OF A PART ON 
THE CIRCULATION THROUGH IT (1879), 
176. 
Effusions, dropsical. See Dropsical. Fi 
Ehrenberg: reference to his classification of 
bacteria, 309. 
Ellis, G. V.: on involuntary muscular fibre, 16. 
Emulsin: action of, on amygdalin, 339. 
Epidermis: exfoliation of, after injury, 269. 
Epigastrium: examples of sympathy of oeso- 
phagus and, 403. 
Epiglottis: vibrations of, in stertor, 145. 
traction on tongue does not pull it forward, 145. 
Epiphysis, ossifying, of bone of calf’s leg, 204. 
Epes raising arms as means of stopping, 
188. 
Epithelium cells: 
268. 
Esmarch’s bloodless method in operations, 177. 
bleeding following, 183. 
Ether, chloric. See Chloroform. 
Ether (1882): chloroform largely superseded by, 
in Great Britain, 155. 
change in mode of administration, 156. 
action of, on heart, 157. 
special risks of, 157. 
close method of administering, 156. 
death caused by, from congestion of the lungs 
(Parsons), 156; from acute bronchitis, 156. 
death from failure of heart under, 158. 
death from fright, at commencement of inhala- 
tion of (Lowe, referred to in footnote), 160. 
Paul Bert’s experiments on, 162; law of per- 
centages, 162. 
causes sickness during administration more than 
chloroform, 166; deaths owing to this, 166. 
causes after-sickness less than chloroform, 166. 
administration of, preceded by nitrous oxide, 174. 
Ether and chloroform: their respective advan- 
tages, 154. 
Ether, sulphuric: Morton’s painless extraction of 
tooth under, 135. 
greater safety of, as anaesthetic (Mason Warren), 
sensitiveness of, to irritation, 
r5 3: 
Ethidene dichloride : recommended as anaesthetic 
by Chloroform Committee of British Medical 
Association, 159. 
more fatal than chloroform, 175. 
Excision of wrist: operation for, 176. 
Ewart: spores in Bacillus anthracis, 384 (footnote). 
Exostosis from os humeri removed from a young 
lady: notes of examination of, 201. 
Exudation, acute inflammatory: distinguished 
from that of dropsy by coagulability, 199. 
of liquor sanguinis in inflammation, 269. 
Eylandt: author of name ‘arrectores pili’, Io. 
Fainting fit: effect of lowering head in, 188. 
Femoral artery. See Artery. 
Ferment: self-multiplication of, the essence of 
fermentation, 339. 
Ferment, lactic: rarity of, in air, 363; scarce in 
ordinary water, 364; experimental proof of 
this, 364. 
Ferment, vesical mucus: the special ferment of, 
358. 
Fermentation, lactic acid, 341. 
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