922 



INDEX. 



Aminothiolactic acid, 907 

 Aminovalerianic acid, 727, 907 

 Aminopurins, 778 

 Ammonia compounds in urine, 773 



salts, relation of, to urea, 775 

 Ammonium carbamate as precursor 

 of urea, 775 



carbonate as precursor of urea, 775 

 Amylolytic enzyme, 683 

 Amylopsin, 729 

 Anacrotic pulse, 489 

 Anaglyph, 357 

 Anelectrotonic currents, 101 

 Anelectrotonus, 83 

 Anisotropous substance in muscle, 19 

 Anode as stimulus to muscle, 82 

 to nerve, 82 



physical, 89 



physiological, 89 

 Anoxemia, 649 

 Anterior commissure, 177, 204 



roots of spinal nerves, 77 

 Antidromic impulses in vasodilator 



nerve fibers, 78, 568 

 Antilytic secretion, 698 

 Antiparalytic secretion, 698 

 Antipeptone, 726 

 Antithrombin, 433 

 Antrum pylori of stomach, 660 

 Anus praBternaturalis, 738 

 Apex beat of heart, 500 

 Aphasia, motor, 206 



sensory, 208 

 Apnea, 643 

 Arginase, 776 

 Arginin, 728, 776, 896, 912 

 Argyll-Robertson pupil, 307 

 Arterial pressure (see Circulation) 

 Artificial muscle of Engelmann, 69 



respiration, 602, 612 



stimuli of nerve fibers, 80 

 Ascending paths in spinal cord, 162 

 Aspartic acid, 727, 907 

 Asphyxia, 644 



effect of, on heart-rate, 549 

 Aspiratory action of thorax, 608 

 Association areas in brain, 209, 211 



system of fibers in cerebrum, 177 

 Astereognosis, 191 

 Astigmatism, 302 

 Atropin, action of, on heart, 539 

 on iris, 308 



on salivary secretion, 697 

 on sweat secretion, 791 

 Auditory center in cortex, 200 



nerve, course of, in brain, 201 

 effect of section of, 385 



sensations (see Ear) 



stria?, 203 

 Auricle (see Heart) 



Auriculoventricular muscle bundle, 

 496 



Auriculoventricular muscle bundle, 



effect of compressing, 527 

 Auscultation, 504 

 Autolysis, 868 

 Autolytic enzymes, 685 

 Automaticity of heart beat, 514 

 Autonomic fibers from brain, 237 



from sacral cord, 239 



from spinal cord, 236 

 nerve fibers, normal stimulation of, 



239 

 nervous system, general relations 



of, 234 

 Axial stream in arteries, 448 



in veins, 448 

 Axon reflexes, 144 



BACTERIAL action in intestines, 739 



Balance experiments in nutrition, 

 810 



Balloon ascensions, effect of, 651 



Barometric pressures, effect of, 650 



Bartholin, duct of, 687 



Basilar membrane, function of, 377 



Bathmotropic nerve fibers to heart. 

 535 



Bechterew's nucleus, 201, 220 



Bell-Magendie law, 77 



Bilateral representation in motor 

 areas, 187 



Biological reaction, 399 



Bile, composition of, 744 

 curve of secretion of, 750 

 effect of occluding bile ducts, 751 

 ejection of, into duodenum, 749 

 functions of, summary, 751 

 quantity of, 744 

 secretion of, 748 



Bile-acids, composition of, 746 



Bile-pigments, 400, 412, 745 



Bile-salts, importance of, in fat diges- 

 tion, 736 



Bilirubin, 745 



Biliverdin, 745 



Binocular perspective, 356, 358 

 vision, 347 



horopter in, 353 

 struggle of visual fields in, 353 

 value of, in judgments of dis- 

 tance, 359 

 in judgments of size, 359 



Births, ratio of male and female, 902 



Biuret reaction for proteins, 909 



Bladder, urinary, movements of, 784 

 gall, movements of, 750 



Blind spot in eye, 317 



Blood, blood-plates of, physiology 



of, 418 



circulation of (see Circulation) 

 coagulation of, 426 

 condition of carbon dioxid in, 625 

 of nitrogen in, 623 



