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INDEX 



Diffusion of impulses in the cord, 



198 

 Digestion, 54 



of albuminoids, 66 



of carbohydrates, 66 



of fats, 67 



gastric, 59 



intestinal, 61, 69 



intra- or extracellular, 22 



pancreatic, 62 



of proteins, 66 



salivary, 58 



summary of, 66 



Digitalis, action of, on kidneys, 51 

 Diplopia, 231 



Diuretics, action of, 50, 51 

 Drowning, 131 



Du Bois Reymond^s law, 178 

 Ductus arteriosus, 253 



venosus, 252 



ELECTRICAL phenomena in muscle 



and nerve, 189 

 Electro tonic changes, 179 



current, 191 

 Embryonic fiber, 186 

 Emmetropia, 230 

 Endocardiac pressure curves, 200 

 Energy of food, 139 



liberated by muscle, 189 

 Enterokinase, 35 

 Enzymes, 22 



classification of, 56 



reversibility of action, 57 



uricolytic, 143 

 Eosinpphiles, 82 

 Equilibrium, allonomous, 21 



autonomous, 21 



of body, 153 



carbon, 151 



nitrogenous, 148 



sense of, 239 

 Erythroblasts, 81 

 Erythrocytes, 78 

 Erythrodextrin, 58, 67 

 Euglobulin, 83 

 Eupnea, 130 

 Eustachian valve, 253 

 Excitation wave, cardiac, 102 

 Excretion, 26 

 Exercise, influence of, on metabolism, 



145, 150 



on pulse rate, 97 

 Exhaustion, 183 



Expiration, 124 



forces, muscles of, 125 

 Expiratory centre, 135 

 Exteroceptive fields, 205 

 Extracts from intestinal worms, 69 

 Eye, functions of, 228 



position of, 228 



FACIAL nerve, 207 



Far point, 230 



Fat, absorption of, 67 



chemistry of, 56 



combustion equivalent of, 140 



digestion of, 61, 62, 63 



metabolism, 146 



origin of, 146 

 Fatigue, cause of, 187, 223 



local feeling of, 223 



of muscle, 183 



of nerve, 185 



production of, 223 

 Feces, composition of, 65 

 Fechner's law, 242 

 Fertilization, 250 

 Fetal circulation, 252 

 Fetus, nourishment of, 252 

 Fever, 152 



Fibrillary contractions, 109 

 Fibrin, 85 



ferment, 85 

 Fibrinogen, 83 

 Filtration, 26 

 Final common path, 196 

 Food, combustion equivalent of, 140 



composition of, 54 



definition of, 22 

 Foodstuffs, classification, 54 

 Foramen ovale in fetal heart, 253 

 Forced movements, 209 

 Fovea centralis, 233 

 Franklin theory of color vision, 236 

 Furfurol, 63 



G 



GASES in blood, respiratory changes, 



128 



partial pressures of, 129 

 poisonous inhalation of, 79 

 tension of, in blood, 129 

 Gastric digestion of proteins, 60 

 juice, composition of, 59 

 secretion, effect of diet on, 33 

 normal mechanism of, 31 



