INDEX TO 
Sharpey, W. (continued) : 
action of heart the cause of circulation, 221 
(footnote). 
calls author’s attention to work by Germans on 
spontaneous changes of colour in frog, 248. 
effects of irritants on cilia, 260. 
Shock, nervous: caused by cold, 405. 
Shoulder joint: pain in, cured by application of | 
actual cautery, 404. 
Simpson, James Young: experiments with narcotic 
vapours, 136. 
first to use chloroform as anaesthetic in autumn 
of 1847, 136. 
large experience of use of chloroform without | 
accident, 137. 
‘ Sizy ’ layer in horse’s blood, 107. 
SKIN: OBSERVATIONS ON 
DISSUE OF (1853), 0. 
Skin, frog’s: pigmentary system of, 40. 
Skin of limbs: 
spinal nerves, 30. 
Skinner (of Liverpool): drop bottle and flannel 
bag for administration of chloroform, 167. 
Sneezing: prevented by violent rubbing of tip of 
nose, 402. 
Snow, John: death from fright when profession 
was made of administering chloroform, 139. 
experiments on effect of varying degrees of 
dilution of chloroform with air on heart, 
140. 
his inhaler for regulating amount of chloroform 
vapour in inspired air, 140. 
his attribution of deaths under chloroform to 
paralysis of heart, 140. 
statistics of deaths under chloroform during ten 
years, 142. 
chloroform administration in sitting position, 
147 (footnote). 
difference of effects of chloroform according to 
dosage, 158. 
experiments on dosage of anaesthetics, 162. 
two ways in which chloroform may kill, 163. 
percentage of chloroform by volume _ recom- 
mended for anaesthesia, 170. 
MUSCULAR 
Solids: influence of, on coagulation of blood, 127, | 
128, 1O1. 
Sore throat. See Throat. 
Spallanzani: the heart and the circulation in 
tadpoles, 221 (footnote). 
Spiegelberg, O.: demonstration that movement of 
intestines is increased by mechanical irritation 
of cord, 92. 
attributes increased peristalsis of intestine after 
death to arrest of circulation in part, 92. 
uterine contractions promoted by mechanical 
irritation of cord, 96; andarrested by powerful 
galvanization through spine, 96. 
Spinal cord: effect of division of all nerves from 
one side of arteries of lower limb, 30. 
method of demonstrating constriction of arteries 
in web of frog’s foot on irritation of, 32. 
variations of calibre in arteries (in frog) caused 
by removal of spinal cord at different levels, 
33, 35- 
hypothesis of spot about middle of, specially 
regulating contraction of vessels, 42; experi- 
mental evidence against this, 42, 43. 
mechanical irritation of, causes increase of move- 
ment of intestine, 92. 
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Spinal cord (continued) : 
medullary sheath of, roo. 
impairment of regulating function on calibre of 
vessels by chloroform, 224 (footnote). 
Spinal cord—divided—constriction of arteries on 
irritation of posterior segment of, 37. 
Spinal cord—undivided—contraction of arteries 
from irritation of anterior part of, 37. 
Spinal cord: Brown-Séquard’s observations on 
increase of temperature in paralysed parts 
after transverse section of, 28. 
Schiff’s observation on dilatation of small vessels 
in bat’s wing after destruction of lower cervical 
and upper dorsal regions of, 28. 
Waller and Budge on regulation of dilatation of 
pupil and vessels of face by, 27. 
Spinal system: influence of, on heart’s action, 
92, 93. 
influence of, on hollow viscera, 97. 
Splenic fever, bacterium of, described by Rayer 
and Davaine, 387 (footnote). ; 
caused by Bacillus anthracis, 388. 
vaccination against, 392. 
produced by injections of modified hay bacillus, 
390. 
SPONTANEOUS GANGRENE FROM ARTERI- 
TIS AND THE CAUSES OF COAGULATION 
OF THE BLOOD IN DISEASES OF THE 
BLOOD-VESSELS (1858), 69. 
Spontaneous gangrene: of lower limb from in- 
flammation of arteries, case of, 60. 
pathological appearances in, 70. 
Spontaneous generation: suspicious 
alleged facts, 284. 
evidence against, 310 
Stasis of blood in inflammation, 211. 
Sterilization by heat: method of, 354. 
Stertor, spurious: caused by approximation of 
vocal cords, 145 (footnote). 
Stertorous breathing. See Breathing. 
Stilling: description of medullary sheath, 102. 
his view as to constituents of nerve fibre, 102. 
this not confirmed by author, 102, 103. 
Stitches, tight: inflammation of skin produced 
by, 401. 
causing oedema and death of tissue, 402. 
nature of 
| Striae, longitudinal, in involuntary muscular fibre, 
Be 
He 
Stricture, urethral: shivering after passage of a 
bougie in, 4o1. 
Strumous disease, of joints: treatment of, 400. 
Strumous diseases: exaggerated tendency 
regard them as of infective nature, 400. 
complete extirpation of degenerated tissues not 
essential for cure of, 410. 
Strumous inflammation: treatment of, 409. 
Sugar: action of Torula cerevisiae on, 377. 
alcoholic fermentation of, 378. 
Sulphuric ether. See Ether. 
Suppuration: not always due to micro-organisms, 
400. 
micrococci not sole causes of, 407. 
Swallow: inability to, causing not hunger, but 
discomfort in epigastrium, 402. 
Sylvester: his method of artificial respiration, 173. 
Syme: chloroform given five thousand times 
without a death, 137. 
case of insusceptibility to chloroform, 143 (/oo- 
note). 
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