1024 



INDEX. 



Alexia, 221 



Alexins, 425 



Alimentary canal, movements of, 713 



glycosuria, 802 



principles of food, 738 

 Alkalinity, true, 416 



titration, 419 

 Altitude, effect of, on red corpuscles, 



439 



Amboceptors, 425 

 Ametropia, 319 

 Amines, 809 



Amino-acetic acid, 793, 1009 

 Amino-acids as part of protein mole- 

 cule, 793, 1009 

 Aminocaproic acid, 794, 1009 

 Aminoglutaric- acid, 1009 

 Aminopropionic acid, 793, 1009 

 Aminopurins, 850 

 Aminosuccinic acid, 794, 1009 

 Aminovalerianic acid, 794, 1009 

 Ammonia nitrogen in urine, 846 



salts, relation of, to urea, 847 

 Ammonium carbamate as precursor 

 of urea, 848 



carbonate as precursor of urea, 847 

 Amylase, 796 

 Amylolytic enzyme, 747 

 Anacrotic pulse, 526 

 Anaglyph, 379 

 Anaphylaxis, 748 

 Anelectrotonic currents, 107 

 Anelectrotonus, 87 

 Angstrom unit, 336 

 Anisotropous substance in muscle, 20 

 Anode as stimulus to muscle, 87 

 to nerve, 87 



physical, 93 



physiological, 93 



Anomalous trichromatic vision, 354 

 Anoxemia, 706 

 Anterior commissure, 187, 217 



roots of spinal nerves, 82 

 Antidromic impulse in vasodilator 



nerve-fibers, 82 

 Antigen, 424 

 Antilytic secretion, 763 

 Antiparalytic secretion, 763 

 Antithrombin, 463 

 Antrum pylori of stomach, 719 

 Anus prseternaturalis, 807 

 Apex-beat of heart, 545 

 Aphasia, motor, 219 



sensory, 221 

 Aphemia, 219, 221 

 Apnea, 699 

 Apraxia, 221 

 Arginase, 849 



Arginin, 794, 849, 990, 1015 

 Argyll-Robertson pupil, 327 

 Arterial pressure. See Circulation. 

 Artificial muscle of Engelmann, 72, 73 



Artificial respiration, 655, 664 



stimuli of nerve-fibers, 84 

 Ascending paths in spinal cord, 169 

 Aspartic acid, 794, 1009 

 Asphyxia, 700 



effect of, on heart-rate, 599 

 Aspiratory action of thorax, 661 

 Association areas in brain, 223, 225 

 system of fibers in cerebrum, 185 

 Astereognosis, 204 

 Astigmatism, 320 

 Atropin, action of, on heart, 589 

 on iris, 328 



on salivary secretion, 762 

 on sweat secretion, 864 

 Auditory center in cortex, 212 

 nerve, course of, in brain, 213 



effect of secretion of, 408 

 sensations. See Ear. 

 striae, 215 



Auricle. See Heart. 

 Auriculoventricular bundle of heart, 



536, 576 



effect of compressing, 577 

 node, 538 

 Auscultation, 552 

 Autacoid substances, 867 

 Autolysis, 961 

 Autolytic enzymes, 750 

 Automaticity of heart-beat, 569 

 Autonomic fibers from brain, 255 

 from sacral cord, 256 

 from spinal cord, 253 

 nerve-fibers, normal stimulation of, 



257 

 nervous system, general relations 



of, 251 

 Axial stream in arteries and veins, 



482 

 Axon reflexes, 151 



BACTERIAL action in intestines, 807 

 Balance experiments in nutrition, 893 

 Balloon ascensions, effect of, 708 

 Barometric pressures, effect of, 706 

 Bartholin, duct of, 752 

 Basilar membrane, function of, 399 

 Bathmotropic nerve-fibers to heart, 



585 



Bechterew's nucleus, 214, 235 

 Bell-Magendie law, 82 

 Beri-beri, 904 

 Bilateral representation in motor 



areas, 199 



Bile, composition of, 813 

 curve of secretion of, 820 

 effect of occluding bile-ducts, 821 

 ejection of, into duodenum, 820 

 functions of, summary, 822 

 quantity of, 813 

 secretion of ; 818 



