INDEX. 



421 



Arteries, pulse in, 201, 209, 227 



,, changes of calibre in, 306, 622 

 ,, supply of vaso-inotor nerves to, 



307, 319 

 ,, effect on blood- pressure of their 



contractility, 320 

 ,, intrinsic tone of muscular wall 



of, 329 



as affected by age, 343, iv. 411 

 basilar, 627 

 of the brain, 1131 

 ,, bronchial, 534, 617 

 of the eye, iv. 165 

 helicine, in erectile tissue,iv.371 

 hepatic, 707 

 radial, 257260 

 renal, 644, 657 



in amphibia, 666 

 splenic, 737 

 umbilical, iv. 383 



venous blood in the, iv. 384 

 Arterioles, 193 



Artificial pulse, tracings of, 216, 258 

 Arytenoid cartilages, iv. 308 

 Ash of muscle, salts in, 102 

 ,, ,, nerves, salts in, 123 

 Asphyxia, phenomena of, 599, 606, 611, 



625 

 increased peristaltic action in, 



469 



its effect on the vascular sys- 

 tem, 624 



,, how produced, 599 

 Astigmatism, iv. 48 

 Ataxy, locomotor, 1103 

 Atrophy, acute, of liver, decrease of urea 



in, 755 

 Atropin, cardiac inhibition counteracted 



by, 300 

 ,, salivary secretion arrested by, 



400, 417 



; ,, its action on sweating, 700, 701 

 ,, its effect on the pupil, iv. 44 

 ,, on accommodation, iv. 45 



Auditory epithelium, structure, iv. 234 



,, hairs, iv. 233 

 Auerbach, plexus of, 441 

 Aura, forms of, preceding epileptiform 



attacks, 1087, 1093 

 Auricle, histology of, 275 

 Automatism of heart and brain, analogy 



of, 1115 



Automatic action, 183, 920 

 Axis-cylinder of nerve fibre, 115, 116 

 ,, ,, of nerve fibre, impulses 



transmitted by, 118 

 ,, of nerve fibre, disintegration 



of, after severance, 144 

 ,, ,, process, in nerve cells of 

 spinal cord, 177, 178 



Babe, the, composition of as compared 



with adult, iv. 403 

 digestive processes of, iv. 405 



Babe, nervous system of the, iv. 407 

 Bacteria, ingestion of by white corpus- 

 cles, 46 



,, results of their presence in ali- 

 mentary canal, 428, 477 

 Bacterium photometricum, its reaction 



towards light, iv. 115 

 Bands, bright and dim, in muscle tissue^ 



29 

 ,, ,, in cardiac tissue, 



275 

 Banting, his method of reducing fatness, 



844 



Basis, molecular, of chyle, 500 

 Bat, the, gastric glands of, 412 

 Beats, in musical sounds, iv. 230 

 Beehive, temperature of, 810 

 Bertiui, columns of, 636 

 Bidder's ganglia in heart of frog, 278, 



279 



Bile, characters and composition, 421 

 ,, secretion of, 434, 435 

 ,, action on food, 424 

 ,, ,, on fats, 475 

 ,, antagonistic to peptic action, 424, 



476 



,, storage of in gall-bladder, 435 

 ,, resorption of under pressure, 439 

 ,, osmotic passage of fat facilitated 



by, 517 



,, manufactured by hepatic cells, 713 

 ,, relation of to formation of urea, 



749 



foetal secretion of, iv. 389 

 Bile-acids, their formation, 747 

 Bile capillaries, 710 

 ,, ducts, 708 

 pigments, 38, 423, 744 

 salts, 423 



Bilin, its composition, 424 

 Bilirubin, its relations with haematin, 



35, 744 



composition of, 423 

 ,, formation of, 746, 748 

 Biliverdin, its composition, 423 

 Birth, changes of the lungs at, 537 



,, of circulation at, iv. 393 

 Bladder, muscles of, 680 

 Blastodermic vesicle, iv. 382 

 Blind spot of retina, iv. 110 

 Blindness, total and partial, 1077 

 Blood, the, 1353 



an internal medium of inter- 

 changes, 13, 186, 191 

 ,, clotting, 1530 

 ,, ,, circumstances affecting, 20 



,, ,, causes of, 26 



its relation to vascular walls, 27, 



339 



,, corpuscles, see, Corpuscles, blood- 

 ,, 'laky,' how formed, 32, 560 

 ,, results of injection of, 671 



,, chemical composition, 49 51 

 ,, specific gravity, 49 



