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INDEX. 



Plasmine, in clotting of blood, 32 

 Pons Varolii, 584 



gray matter of, 623 

 Posterior column of spinal cord, 531 

 Presbyopic eye, 748 

 Pressure, arterial, 138 

 in capillaries, 143 

 in veins, 138 

 Products of digestion, course taken by fats, 



325 



by proteids, 327 

 by sugar, 326 

 by water and salts, 326 

 Proprionic acid, 889 

 Prostate gland, 834 

 Protagon, 98, 895 



Proteid bodies, characters of the more im- 

 portant, 253 

 Proteids, 866 



classification of, 257 

 coagulated, 875 



dec6mposition of, by digestion, 878 

 general composition of, 28 

 xanthoproteic test for, 28 

 Protoplasm, 20 

 Pseudopodia, 121 



Psychical processes, duration of, 725 

 Ptomaines, 313, 345, 896 

 Pulse, 176 



anacrotic, 185, 190 

 katacrotic, 185 

 methods of recording, 176 

 venous, 190 



Pulse-curve, characters of, 181 

 Pulse-curves described by sphygmographic 



levers, 177 

 Pulse-tracing from an artificial model, 



179 

 from carotid artery of healthy man, 



185 

 Pulse-wave, anacrotic, causes of, 190 



changes of, along the arterial tract, 



182 

 diacrotic, 185 



cause of, 185 

 features of, 182 

 length of, 185 

 predicrotic, 189 

 velocity of, 184 

 Pupil, movements of, 751 



nerves governing, 753 

 Purkinje', cells of, 653 

 Purkmje's figures, 760, 762 

 Pyramidal cells, 656 

 Pyrexia, 504 

 Pyriform lobe, 700 



fvUADRIGEMINAL bodies, 625 

 y Quality of sound, 801 



Quantitative determination, 898 

 Quantity of aqueous vapor exhaled, 344 



of blood, 53 



mode of estimating, 54 



of carbonic acid exhaled, 344 



of organic matters exhaled, 345 



RAPIDITY of circulation, 150 

 in capillaries, 154 

 in veins, 154 

 of clotting of blood, 27 

 Reaction of urine, 409 

 Bed-blind, 774 



blood-corpuscles, 37 



counting of, 42 



apparatus for the, 42 

 diameter of, 37 

 disintegration of, 42 

 number of, 41 

 shape of, 37 

 structure of, 37 

 study of, 37 



marrow in bone, a source of red cor- 

 puscles, 43 

 Reflex actions, 130 



nature of, 130 

 of spinal cord, 564 

 inhibition, 203 

 Refraction, 745 

 Regulation of heat, 499 

 Reissner, membrane of, 795 

 Rennin, 250 

 Reproduction, 832 



corpus luteum, 840 



of menstruation, 840 

 of pregnancy, 840 

 development of embryo, 842 

 allantois, 844 

 placenta, 847 

 segmentation of ovum in, 



842 



vascular area, 843 

 Graafian follicle in, 838 

 impregnation of ovule, 841 

 menstruation, 838 

 organs of, 832 



Fallopian tubes, 835 

 male, 835 

 ovaries, 835 

 uterus, 834 

 vagina, 834 

 ovule in, 841 

 ovum in, 838 

 spermatozoa in, 841 

 Respiration, 332 



absorption of oxygen in, 361 

 apncea in, 384 



apparatus for taking tracings, 337 

 asphyxia in, 336, 386 



phenomena of, 386 



carbonic acid exhaled, amount of, 344 

 changes of air in, 344 

 Cheyne-Stokes, 385 

 complemental air in, 334 

 dyspncea in, 336, 380 

 effect of breathing foreign gases, 388 

 of changes in atmospheric pres- 

 sure, 389 



of muscular exercise on, 383 

 exhalation of aqueous vapor, 344 

 of carbonic acid, 344, 364 

 of organic matters, 345 

 expiration, 342 



