920 



INDEX. 



Bile, influence on peptic digestion, 309 

 pigments of, 279, 453, 913 

 Gmelin's test for, 280 

 resorption of, 291 

 salts, 280 



tests for, 280 



Pettenkofer's, 280 

 secretion of, 288 

 series, 912 

 Bilirubin, 279, 912 

 Biliverdin, 280, 913 

 Binocular vision, 781 

 Bladder, muscles of, 427 

 Blindness, 695 

 color, 774 



Blind spot, filling up of, 779 

 Blood, 24 



carbonic acid in, 360 

 changes in quantity of, 236 

 chemical composition of, 50 

 clotting of, 26 



buffy coat in, 27 

 causes of, 38 

 corpuscles in, 37 

 crassamentum in, 26 

 effect of neutral salts on, 32 

 effect of sodium chloride on, 28 

 effect of temperature on, 31 

 fibrin in, 28 

 fibrin ferment in, 34 

 fibrinogen in, 33 

 in arteries, 37 

 in veins, 36 

 length of time of, 27 

 paraglobulin in, 30 

 plasmine in, 32 

 rapidity of, 27 

 serum in, 29 

 serum-albumin in, 30 

 color of, 37 



brightness of, due to reflection of 



light through corpuscles, 39 

 venous and arterial, 356 

 composition of, 50 

 gases, 349 



methods of obtaining, 346 

 hsematin, 359 



features of, 359 

 method of obtaining, 359 

 haemin, 360 



crystals of, 360 

 haemoglobin, 351 



characters of, 351 

 method of obtaining, 352 

 spectroscopic features of, 353 

 varieties of crystals. 352 

 composition of, methsemoglobin, 360 

 corpuscles, 37 



average number of, in human 



blood, 40 



characteristics of, 37 

 red, structure of, 40 



haemoglobin in, 40 

 white, 43 



effect of deficient aeration on, 382 

 platelets, 49 



Blood plaques, 49 

 pressure, 137 



curves from carotid of rabbit, 140 

 quantity of, its distribution in body, 54 

 rate of circulation, 150 

 relations of oxygen in, 350 

 respiratory changes in, 346 

 supply, influence of, on contractile tis- 

 sues, 113 

 of liver, 289 

 Brain, 584 



absence of signs of volition and intelli- 

 gence, 637 



and spinal cord, lymphatic arrange- 

 ments of, 728 

 membranes of, 728 

 vascular arrangements of, 732 . 

 arteries of, distribution and characters 



732 

 blood-supply of, 734 



methods of investigating, 735 

 bulb of, 589 



fibres of, 598 



central gray matter of, 601 

 cerebro-spinal fluid, 731 

 changes in gray matter of, 595 

 commissural fibres of, 634 

 connections of grny and white matter 



of, 601 



corpora geniculata, 625 

 quadrigemina, 625 



gray matter of, 625 

 corpus striatum, 625 

 cortical fibres, 631 

 cranial nerves, 589 

 embryonic, 584 

 fibres of, 627 

 functions of, 716 



gracile and cuneate nuclei of, 597 

 gray matter of, 601 

 histological features of, 653 

 intermediate gray matter of, 615 

 longitudinal fibres of, 628 

 nature and relations of the several 



nuclei of, 613 

 olivary nucleus of, 596 

 optic thalamus, 615 

 posterior bundles of, 633 



cortical of, 630 

 pyramidal tract of, 628 

 splanchnic functions of, 720 

 structure of, 584 

 superficial gray matter of, 615 

 superior or sensory decussation, 592 

 Brain, tracts from corpora quadrigemina of, 



633 



venous arrangement of, 733 

 white matter of, 530 

 Broca's convolution, 676 

 Burdach. columns of, 540 

 Butyric acid, 889 



CALABAR bean, action of, on pupil, 756 

 U Calorimeters, 494 

 Capillaries, circulation in, 143, 231 



