424 
Muscular tissue, plain: Ko6lliker’s discovery of 
cellular constitution of, 1. 
Wharton Jones on muscular fibre-cells, 1. 
J. F. Mazonn on, 16. 
G. V. Ellis on, 16. 
Muscular tissue of skin: observations on, 9. 
not present in hairless parts, I4. 
Nélaton: his method of inversion in collapse 
during chloroform administration, 172; case 
illustrating the utility of this method, 173. _ 
Nerve-cells: in amputated limb of frog, producing 
irregular contractions after division of brain 
from cord, 39, 40, 41. 
Nerve-fibres : structure of, 99. 
Nerve of nerve-fibres (in collaboration with 
W. Turner): supplementary observations by 
author, 102. 
Nerve, sciatic: Wharton Jones’s observation on 
dilatation of arteries after division of, 28. 
Pfliiger’s observations on effects of galvanization 
and division of, within spinal cord, 29. 
effects of ligature of, on arteries, 209. 
recovery of contractility of arteries after section 
of, 30. 
effect of section of, in thigh of frog (Wharton 
Jones), 47. 
author’s observations on, 47. 
medullary sheath of, 100. 
axial cylinder of, 101. 
Nerve, sympathetic: Augustus Waller on effect on 
vessels and pupils of galvanization . above 
point of cutting or tying, 27. 
action on heart of branches connecting cord 
with cardiac ganglion, 93, 94, 95, 96. 
Nerves: of iris, 8. 
Nerves, mesenteric : 
testine, 9I. 
Nerves: paralysed by irritants, 259. 
Nerves, vaso-motor: experiments showing action 
of, 30, 31, 45, 46. 
Nerves, visceral: account of inquiry into their 
functions with special reference to so-called 
‘inhibitory ’ system, 87. 
function of, 232. 
Nervous action, excessive: producing inactivity 
of gland cells and other tissues, 273. 
Nervous activity: depression of, by chill, 405. 
Nervous apparatus : and post-mortem peristalsis, 90. 
Nervous centres for arteries: and dilatation of 
blood-vessels, 97. 
Nervous exhaustion: not cause of inhibitory 
influence of vagus, 97. 
Nervous shock, caused by cold, 405. 
Nervous sympathy: law of, 402. 
Nervous system: parts of, regulating contractions 
of arteries, 27. 
control of pigment cells by, 45. 
inflammation caused through, 400. 
its action in production of chronic housemaid’s 
knee, 406. 
Nitrite of amyl: as a cardiac stimulant in collapse 
under chloroform, 174. 
Nitrous oxide gas: as an anaesthetic (H. Davy), 
1357. (HH. Wells),°135. 
effects of, 154. 
mode of administration, 154. 
its uses in dentistry (Evans), 154. 
administration of, followed by ether, 174. 
inhibitory action of, in in- 
INDEX TO VOLUME I 
NoTES OF THE EXAMINATION OF AN EXoOSTOSIS, 
removed by Mr. Syme on October 2, 1853, 
from the os humeri of a young lady aged about 
twenty years (1854), 201. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE STRUCTURE OF 
NERVE FIBRES (in collaboration with 
William Turner 1859), 99. 
Oedema, inflammatory: from bites or stings, 271. 
Oesophagus: bud of kail plant impacted in, 
causing uneasiness in epigastrium, 403. 
Ogston : micrococci in acute abscesses, 406. 
none in chronic abscesses, 407. 
Oidium: growth of, in unboiled and uncon- 
taminated urine, 294. 
in Pasteur’s solution, 295. 
Oidium lactis, 341. 
in milk, 363 (footnote). 
growth on curdled milk, 374. 
Oidium toruloides, a putrefactive ferment in urine, 
304. 
in Pasteur’s solution, 304. 
in albuminous liquid, 305. 
Organism : variation of, under influence of different 
media, 306. 
in putrefying blood, 338. 
Organism, spirilliform: growth of, in urine, 326. 
Organisms: fermentative agency of, 276. 
fissiparous generation in, 281. 
not present in urine drawn off after antiseptic 
treatment of skin around meatus, 278, 284. 
modification of, in urine and Pasteur’s solution, 
328. 
modification of function of, in different media, 331. 
assume specific properties in putrefying dis- 
charges, 333- 
in unboiled milk, 344. 
the cause of all true fermentations in organic 
liquids, 353. 
do not occur in liquids contained in pure covered 
glasses, 354. 
growth of, in milk, 363. 
different fermentative changes produced by, 363. 
development of rare kinds of, in milk in absence 
of ferments, 364. 
Organisms, minute: destroyed by strong watery 
solution of carbolic acid, 311. 
in Pasteur’s solution, identical with large ones in 
urine, 328. 
relation of, to inflammation, 399. 
Organisms, ultra-microscopic fermentative : 
sible existence of, 382. 
Ormsby: ‘close’ method of administering ether, 156. 
Os humeri. See Humerus. 
Oxygen: has no influence on coagulability of 
blood, 132. 
not cause of putrefaction, 283. 
and lactic acid fermentation, 382. 
and growth of organism in fowl cholera, 397. 
pos- 
Paget, James: statement as to use of chloric ether 
in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in summer of 
1847, 136 (footnote). 
effects of irritants on circulation in bat’s wing, 
2 TT, 
reference to structure of blood-vessels, 218 (foo- 
note). 
degenerations of tissue resulting from inflamma- 
tion, 270. 
