INDEX TO VOLUME I 
Matter, solid: influence of, in promoting coagula- 
tion of blood, 128. 
Mazonn, J. F.: on muscular fibre-cells, 16. 
Medico-Chirurgical Society Committee : percentage 
of chloroform by volume recommended for 
anaesthesia, 170. 
Medullary sheath: of sciatic nerve, 100. 
of spinal cord, 100. 
different in chemical composition from axial 
cylinder, IOI. 
difference in structure between sheath and 
cylinder, 102, 103. 
fibroid arrangement of, 103. 
fatty matter in, 103. 
diminution in size in fibres of nerve roots as they 
pass inwards through columnar regions, 104. 
Meissner (of Bale): nerve cells in mammalian 
intestine, 41. 
demonstration of ganglionic apparatus in sub- 
mucous tissue of intestine, 91; verified by 
author, 91. 
Membranes, serous. See Serous. 
Mental emotion: a cause of death under chloro- 
form, 139; instances (Snow; R. Mackenzie), 
130. 
Meredith : avoids vomiting from chloroform during 
ovariotomy and after-sickness by using Jun- 
ker’s inhaler, 166. 
Mesenteric nerves. See Nerves. 
Mesentery: flow of lacteal in mouse’s, 25. 
Methylene bichloride: Paul Bert’s experiments 
on, 162; his law of percentages, 162. 
compared with chloroform, 175. 
Mice, young: more tolerant of chloroform than 
adults (Snow and author), 162. 
Micrococci: in acute abscesses, 407. 
presence of, in acute abscesses in accident, 408. 
enter system in rabbits lowered by phosphorus, 
408. 
develop in pus of abscess when inflammation 
produces serious febrile disturbance, 409. 
Micrococci of suppuration: do not survive unless 
local or general disorder exists, 408. 
Micrococcus of septicaemia, 380. 
MICRO-ORGANISMS, RELATIONS OF, TO 
DISEASE (1881), 387. 
Micro-organisms: cause shrinkage of blood-clot, 
196. 
relations of, to diseased processes in wounds, 399. 
neither inflammation nor suppuration always due 
to, 400. 
importance of, in regard to inflammation and 
suppuration exaggerated, 400. 
not present in healthy tissues, 408. 
do not survive in healthy body unless introduced 
in certain amount, 408. 
Microzymes: exposure to air and evolution of 
(Burdon Sanderson), 277. 
Milk: prevention of fermentative changes in, 310. 
production of viscous fermentation in, by 
bacteria, 321. 
lactic acid fermentation not produced by 
exposure of milk to atmosphere, 324. 
different actions of organisms on, 324. 
leptothrix filaments in, 325. 
coagulation of, 323. See also Coagulation. 
souring of, in summer weather, 324. 
dark pigment formed in, by growth of organism, 
329. 
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Milk (continued) : 
black deposit not caused by distinct ‘ pigment 
bacterium ’, 332. 
putrefaction of, 341. 
no inherent tendency to souring in, 342. 
no lactic acid fermentations in, when boiled 
and protected, 342. 
boiling of, does not prevent souring, 342. 
fermentations of other kinds in, caused by 
inoculation with unboiled water, 343. : 
estimation of number of bacteria in, 348. 
experimental production of lactic acid fermenta- 
tion in, 349. 
purification by heat, 358; difficulty of purifying, 
358 (footnote), 359; method of overcoming 
the difficulty, 360. 
almost all kinds of bacteria thrive in, 360. 
development of Bacterium lactis in, 362. 
as it comes from healthy cow contains no 
material. causing fermentative changes nor 
organisms, 364. 
Milk abscess: case of, treated antiseptically, 407. 
Milk, artificial: for experiment with organisms, 
216, 
preparation of, 316. 
Milk, boiled: process of charging, for experiment, 
313- 
Milk, curdled : growth of mould on surface, 374. 
Milk, souring: organisms in (Pasteur), 342. 
caused by lactic acid ferment, 366. 
cause of odour in, 376. 
bacteria become smaller in, 374. 
Milk, unboiled : not spontaneously prone to lactic 
acid fermentation, 344. 
organisms in, 344. 
contains no organism or ferment, 347. 
Miller: on lactic acid fermentation, 341. 
Minute organism. See Organism. 
Morphia: followed by administration of chloro- 
form produces insensibility to pain, leaving 
patient conscious, 174. 
hypodermic injection of, as a preliminary to 
chloroform administration, 174. 
Morton, W. T. G.: experiments on himself and on 
animals to discover anaesthesia, 135. 
painless extraction of tooth under sulphuric ether, 
135; demonstration of its use in Massachusetts 
General Hospital, 135. 
| Mould, blue, in milk, 363 (footnote). 
Mould, green, in milk, 363 (footnote). 
Mouse: flow of lacteal fluid in mesentery of, 25. 
Movements of heart. See Heart. 
Mucor mucedo in milk, 363 (footnote). 
Mucor vacemosus: in milk, 363 (footnote). 
and alcoholic fermentation, 379 (footnot/e). 
Mucus, vesical: the special ferment of urine, 358. 
Miller: disposition to coagulate in liquor san- 
guinis of frog filtered from corpuscles, 133. 
MUSCULAR FIBRE: INVOLUNTARY, 
NUTE STRUCTURE OF (1856), 15. 
Muscular fibre, involuntary : K6lliker’s views on, 15. 
J. F. Mazonn on, 106. 
G. V. Ellis on, 16. 
structure of, 218. 
Muscular tissue: in web of frog’s foot, 18. 
in intestine of pig, measurement of, 22. 
longitudinal striae in, 23. 
in stomach of rabbit, 23. 
‘ dots’ in, 
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