INDEX. 



633 



The Numbers refer to the Paragraphs. 



Devergie, M., his table of development of 



foetus at different ages, 769 

 Diabetes, 715 



Diatheses, gouty, 714; saccharine, 715; tu- 

 bercular, 714; inflammatory, 717 

 Diet-scale, see Food 

 DIGESTION, 



General account of, 77, 85; in lower Ani- 

 mals, 435; alimentary materials, 430; 

 their respective destinations, 431 

 433; inorganic substances, 434; re- 

 lative digestibility of different kinds of 



food, 

 453 



451, 452; importance of bulk, 



Processes of, 436447; mastication and 

 insalivation, 436 ; deglutition, 437 ; con- 

 dition of stomach in, during health, 

 438 ; disorder of, 439 ; Dr. Beaumont's 

 researches on, 438, 439, 444453; 

 sense of hunger, 440 442; sense of 

 thirst, 443 ; entrance of food into sto- 

 mach, 444; movements of stomach, 

 444; expulsion into duodenum, 445; 

 passage along intestines, 446,447 ; dis- 

 charge of faeces, 447 

 Chemical phenomena of, 448 460; pro- 

 perties and action of gastric juice, 449 

 453 ; its chemical action, 454 ; artificial 

 solution of food, 455, 456; Schwann's 

 researches on pepsin, 455 ; Wasmann's 

 researches, 456 ; similarity of azotized 

 proximate principles, 457; reduction 

 of food to form of albumen, 457; com- 

 position of protein, 458; conversion of 

 saccharine and oleaginous principles, 

 460 



Influence of nerves upon, 235, 236 

 Interstitial, according to Dr. Prout, 468 



Direction, law of visible, 336 



Discs of Blood, see Corpuscles 



Distance, adaptation of eye to, 329 ; esti- 

 mate of, 341 



Domesticability of Animals, 50,53, 280 



Donne, M., his observations on Milk, 685, 

 689; on temperature in disease, 720 



Dorsal vessel of Articulata,29 



Double consciousness, 296 



Dreaming, 295, 296 



Dugong, heart of, 476 



Dulong, his researches on animal heat, 

 727 



Dumas, his analysis of fibrin, 553 



Duration of life in individual parts, 645, 

 646 



Dzondi, on deglutition, 437 



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Ear, general action of, 104 ; comparative 

 structure of, 350, 351 ; distribution of au- 

 ' ditory nerve in, 352; uses of membrana 

 tympani,356; of tympanic cavity, 357 ; 

 of labyrinth, 358, 359 ; of external ear and 

 meatus, 359, 360 



Echinodermata, 19 



Educability.of Birds, 50,280; of Mamma- 

 lia, 53, 280; of Man, 71,279 



Edwards, Dr., his experiments on respira- 

 tion, 533, 536, 538, 539; on animal heat, 

 728, 730 



Efferent nerves, 112, 116, 162 



Egg, see Ovum 



Egg-shell, Membrane of, 554 



Ehrenberg, on limits of vision, 333 



Eighth Pair of Nerves, see Glosso-pharyn- 

 geal, Par Vagum, and Spinal Accessory 



Elasticity, of arterial walls, 500, 501 



Elastic tissues, 638 



Embryo, early development of, 758770 ; 

 formation of germinal mass, 758 ; of ger- 

 minal membrane, 758, 759; of vertebral 

 column, 760 ; of amnion, 761 ; of vascu- 

 lar area and umbilical vessels, 762; of 

 branchial arches, 763; of allantois, 764; 

 of umbilical cord, 765; influence of mo- 

 ther on, 768 ; table of development, 769 ; 

 size and weight of at birth, 770 



Embryonic development of brain, 214, 215, 

 217; of cephalic nerves, 243 ; of lungs, 

 526; of blood-corpuscles, 575; of liver, 

 655 g; of kidney, 667 c,- of heart, 762; 

 of circulating apparatus, 766 ; of diges- 

 tive cavity, 767 



Emissio seminis, 108, 203,738 



Emotions, influence of on nutrition and se- 

 cretion, 423, 425429 



Emotional actions, 258, 260 265, 288,290 



Empiricism, rational, 11 



Enamel, 632 c, 634 



Encephalon, comparative anatomy of, 215 

 218; proportions of different parts, in 

 Fishes, 213, 214; in Reptiles, 216; in 

 Birds, 217; in Mammalia, 218; in Hu- 

 man Embryo, 214, 215, 217; functions of, 

 258293 



Epidermic tissues, 620 622 ; epidermis, 

 620; nails, 620; epithelium, 621; nutri- 

 tion of, 612, 622; functions of, 651 



Epilepsy, 299 



Epithelium, 621 ; the real secreting struc- 

 ture, 651 



Erectile tissue, 519 



Eustachian tube, uses of, 357 



Eustachian valve, uses of, 766 



Excretion, objects of, 92; of carbonic acid, 

 92, 521 ; of nitrogen, 93, 670, 679; result 

 of decomposition, 468, 648; elements of, 

 previously in blood, 469, 520, 648 



Excretions, outlets of, guarded by spinal 

 cord, 202, 203 



Exhalation, by lungs, 550; influenced by 

 mental state, 429 ; from skin, 702, 703 



Experiments on nerves, fallacies of, 122 

 124 



Expiration, act of, 530 



Exudation corpuscles, 560, 596, 601, 609 



Eye, general action of, 103; an optical in- 

 strument, 329; adaptation of, to distance, 



