472 



INDEX. 



A]'liicTcin, 306 

 Aplysio-purpurin, 307 



Appaiatus, for changes in gaseous consti- 

 tuents of muscle, 319, 350 



Aqueous Humor, 452 



ARN STEIN, blood pigment in intermittent 

 fever, 162 



ARONSTEIN, pure serum-albumin, 63 



Articular Rheumatism, blood in, 158 



Ascitic Fluid, 235 



Ashes of Serum, composition of, 69 



Blood, determination of, 177 ; by 



Rose's method, 179 



Bone, determination of, 285 



Axis-cylinder of nerve fibres, 421 



AYRES und KUHNE, retina, 463 



BABBINGTON, blood in diabetes, 170 



Bacillus anthracis, in splenic fever, 161 



Bacillus malariae, 162 



BACON, FRANCIS, views as to a vital spirit, 

 409 



BAUMANN on chitin, 300 



BECQUEREL and RODIER, specific gravity 

 of blood, 26; blood in disease, 138 ; fibrin 

 in disease, 142 ; fats of blood in disease, 

 143; classification of anaemia, 145 

 147 ; blood in chlorosis, 151 ; scurvy, 

 156; purpura hemorrhagica, and hae-. 

 mophilia, 157 ; blood in acute rheuma- 

 tism, 157 ; febricula or ephemeral fever, 

 159; typhoid fever, 159; classification 

 of anaemia in heart disease, 166 ; fibrin 

 in pulmonary affections, 167; bone in 

 caries, 284 



BEDDOES, calls attention to the older re- 

 searches of Mayow, 409 ; his discussion 

 of Girtanner's essay, and views of 

 muscular irritability, 413 



Beef-tea, 326 



Bees' wax, 264 



BEIGEL, excretion of urea, 386 



BENEKE, excretion of urea, 386 



BERNARD, CLAUDE, on CO-haemoglobin, 

 104, 105 ; sugar in lymph, 224 ; on glyco- 

 gen, 334 



BERNHARDT, water in spinal cord and me- 

 dulla oblongata, 446 



BERNSTEIN on functional current, 347 



BERT, gases of the blood, 204 



BERTHELOT on chitin, 300; tunicin, 303 



BERZELIUS, reaction of dead muscle, 359; 

 marrow, 277; blood in disease, 138 



BIBRA (VON), blood of Helix pomatia and 

 Cephalopods, 132; osteomalacia, 281; 

 rachitis, 283; comparative analysis of 

 teeth, 293; analysis of fossil teeth, 294; 

 analysis of feathers, 298 



BIERMER, pernicious anaemia, 154 



Bile, preparation of rnucm from, 257 



BILHARZ. parasites in blood, 161 

 Pnlharzia haematoliu, 161 

 Bilirubin in pus, 245 

 BIRCH, DE BURGH, bone, 273 



BISTEOW, C 2 H 2 -haemoglobin, 107 



BLAINVILLE (DE), on blood cells 



BI.ANKENHORN, protagon, 427 



Blood, physical characters of, 23 ; method 

 of collection of pure arterial or venous 

 blood for analysis &c., 23; organic con- 

 stitution of, 25 ; specific gravity of, 26 ; 

 reaction of, methods of its determination, 

 26; composition of, 126; gases of, 126; 

 effect of reducing agents on, 99 ; guaia- 

 cum test for, 102 ; amount of haemo- 

 globin in, 1 03 ; amount of iron in, 103 ; 

 amount of water in, 139. Action of car- 

 bonic oxide on, 104; action of nitric 

 oxide on, 106; action of acetylene or 

 ethine on, 107; action of hydrocyanic 

 acid on, 107 



Coagulation of, 27 ; determination of 



its commencement, 27; duration of 

 various stages, 27; rapidity of in dif- 

 ferent animals, 28; formation of fibrin 

 in, 28 ; circumstances affecting coagu- 

 lation, 29; theories of, 42; influence 

 of salts on, 53; non-coagulation of 

 the blood in living vessels, 55 



Methods of investigating: determi- 

 nation of sp.gr., 174; of reaction, 176; of 

 water, 177; of solids, 177; of ashes, 177 

 (by Rose's method, 179); of fibrin, 180 ; of 

 haemoglobin, 182; of iron, 186; of cho- 

 lesterin, 187 ; of lecithin, 187 ; of fats, 

 187 ; of urea, 190 ; of uric acid, 193 ; 

 of sugar, 194 ; of w eight of moist cor- 

 puscles, 195; of gases, 196. Analysis of 

 gases of, 206. Total quantity in body, 

 determination of, 215. Carbonic oxide 

 in, its detection, 219 



of muscle, see Muscle 



of Invertebrates, 129: functions 



of, 129; characters of, 129; chemical 

 composition of, 130; colouring matter 

 of, in Sipunculus mulus, 131; haemo- 

 globin of, 130 ; green colour of, in An- 

 nelids, 131; blue, of Mollusca and 

 Molluscoida, 132 ; blue, of Octopus, 

 133; composition of in Cephalopoda, 

 134 



changes in, produced by iron, 152 



changes in, in disease, 136: Intro- 

 duction to, 136 ; proportional variations 

 of principal constituents, in diseases in 

 general, 139; e.g. water, 139; coloured 

 corpuscles, 139; haemoglobin, 139; fibrin, 

 142; serum-albumin, 142; fats, 143; 

 cholesterin, 143 ; lecithin, 143 ; sugar, 

 143; urea, 143; uric acid, 143; ex- 

 tractives, 143 ; hypoxanthine, 143; salts, 

 143; gases, 143; respiratory capacity 

 of, 144 



changes in, in particular diseases, 



145: In disorders of nutrition, 145: 

 e.g. anaemia, 145; chlorosis, 150; leu- 

 cocythaemia, 152 ; progressive perni- 

 cious anaemia, 154; scurvy, 156; haemo- 



