442 



INDEX. 



Movements, voluntary, as influenced by 



sensory impulses, 1061 

 Mucigeu, a forerunner of miicin, 411 

 Muciu, a constituent of saliva, 357 



in perilymph of vestibule, iv. 206 

 Miiller, radial fibres of, iv. 58 

 Mulberry gall-stones, 431 

 "Mulberry mass" the, iv. 382 

 Multipolar cells of splanchnic ganglia, 



179 



"Muscae volitantes," iv. 52 

 Muscarin, its action on cardiac tissue, 



301 

 Muscle, irritability, 56 



,, contractions, phenomena of, 68, 



77 



,, tetanic, 78 

 wave of contraction, 86 

 gross structure of, 84 

 minute structure of, 88 

 striated, 89, 91 

 ,, under polarized light, 93 

 mobility of, 95 

 chemistry of, 95 104 

 living and dead, contrast of, 95 

 dead, chemical substances in, 96, 



98 



frozen, 98 



rigid, acid reaction of, 99 

 living, reaction of, 100 

 constituents of, 101 

 chemical changes due to con- 

 traction, 104 

 thermal changes, 103, 104, 106, 



151, 807 

 electrical, 106 

 action of the constant current 



on, 134 

 work done by, as influenced by 



fatigue, 139 

 by load, 141 

 ,, by size and form of 



muscle, 142 



,, ,, by temperature, 145 

 influence of functional activity 



on, 148 



exhaustion of, 149 

 oxygen consumed during con- 

 traction, 152 



contractile material of, 153 

 contraction a chemical process, 



154 



plain, structure of, 156 

 ,, arrangement of nerves in, 158 

 ,, chemistry of, 159 

 ,, characters of contraction of, 



159 

 spontaneous contractions of, 



161 



,, tonic contraction of, 162 

 respiration of, 579 

 nutrition of, 148, 824 

 cardiac, 274 

 unlike skeletal muscle, 285 



Muscle, cardiac, histology of, 288 

 ,, nerve-endings in, 118 

 ,, vaso-dilator fibres in nerve sup- 

 ply to, 316 



embryonic, glycogen in, 729 

 ,, relations of metabolism to struc- 

 tural features, 825 



,, governance of nutrition of, 923 

 Muscles, skeletal, result of metabolism 



in, 751 

 ,, ,, their proportion in body, 



789 



,, ,, tone of, 922 



,, rigidity of, 927 



,, ,, their mode of action, iv. 342 



Muscle-currents, 106 



,, ,, negative variation of, 111 

 ,, velocity of, 106 

 Muscle-curves, 68 



,, analysis of, 74 

 ,, ,, variations of, 77 

 ,, ,, tetanic, 78 

 Muscle-nerve preparation, 58 83 



,, ,, ,, muscle current shewn 



in, 111 



,, ,, ,, as a machine, 136 

 Muscle-plasma, 98 

 Muscle-serum and clot, 98 

 Muscle-sound, 140 

 Muscularis mucoste of stomach, 384 

 of resophagus, 392 



,, of intestine, 442 



Musical sounds, characters of, iv. 223 

 Myoglobulin, 98 

 Myograph described, 68, 71 

 Myosin in white corpuscles, 40 



,, in dead muscle, 96 

 Myosinogen in white corpuscles, 40 



,, in living muscle, 99 



Myxcedema, its connection with disease 

 of thyroid, 764 



Nasal passages, inspired air warmed in 



the, 548 



Nausea, sensation of, iv. 287 

 Nerves, irritability of, 56 



' ,, tested by constant 



current, 135 

 ,, end-plates of, probable action of 



urari on, 58 



,, ,, connection of with mus- 



cular fibre, 85 



,, ,, the two parts of, 119 



,, ,, their analogy with elec- 



trical organs, 120, 155 

 ,, structure of, 114, 115 

 ,, arrangement of in striated mus- 

 cle, 118 

 ,, ,, in unstriated 



muscle, 158 

 ,, chemistry of, 121 

 severed, degenerative changes in, 



144 

 ,, mixed, 171 



