1180 



INDEX. 



Spot, blind, of retina, 916 



Spring-manometer, 195 



Stagnation stage of inflammation, 293 



Stapes, or stirrup bone, 986 



Starch, action of saliva on, 314; chemi- 

 cal composition of, 314 ; action of pan- 

 creatic juice on, 314, 315; 'animal,' 

 569 ; its value in diet, 661 



Starvation, its effect in checking produc- 

 tion of glycogen, 563, 567 ; changes in 

 body during, 620 ; fall of temperature 

 attending, 649 



Stearin, its presence in blood, 47 ; a con- 

 stituent of animal fat, 606 



Stellate ganglion, composite nature of, 

 255 



Stereoscope, ocular movements affected 

 by the, 953 ; principle of construction, 

 966 



Stethometer of Burdon-Sanderson, 431 



Stimuli defined, 53 ; various kinds of, 

 56 ; necessary characters of, 121 



Stimulus, reflex actions varied according 

 to nature of, 699 



Stolnikoff s method of measuring the 

 ' out-put ' of the heart, 197 



Stomach, nervous supply to, 339 ; its se- 

 cretion of gastric juice, ib., 340 ; move- 

 ments of, 377 ; changes of food in the, 

 388 



Storage of bile in gall-bladder, 367 ; of 

 glycogen in the liver, 565, 571 



Striation of muscle tissue, 86 



Stroma of red corpuscles, its composition, 

 32 ; embryonic formation of, from pro- 

 toplasm, 35 



Stromuhr of Ludwig described, 173 



Strychnia, reflex action as affected by, 

 703 



Substance, living, compared with dead, 

 3, 86; metabolic changes in, 39-41; 

 chemical composition, 41 



Substances, visual, hypothetical, 901 



Succus entericus, its nature and action, 

 363 



Sugar, its presence in the blood, 48, 573; 

 normally present in blood and chyle, 

 414 ; formed by saliva from starch, 316 ; 

 course taken by, during digestion, 414, 

 421; in diabetic urine, 522; its con- 

 version into glycogen, 569; a product 

 of metabolic changes, 570 ; its value in 

 diet, 661 



Sulcus, crucial and sigmoid, of dog's 

 brain, 740 



Sulphur in proteids, 17, 630; in urine, 

 518 



Suprarenal bodies, the, 601 



Swallowing, mechanism of, 373 ; its action 

 on tympanic air pressure, 996 



Sweat, how secreted, 551, 555; composi- 

 tion of, 552 



Sweat-fibres of different animals, course 

 of, 557 



Sweat-glands, 558; action of pilocarpin 

 on, 557 



Sweat-nerves, 558 



Sweating in lower animals, 556 ; nervous 

 mechanism of, 555 ; a reflex act, 557 



Sympathetic system, fibres to plain 

 muscles supplied by, 133; its connec- 

 tion with spinal nerves, 141 



Syntonin, 88 



Systole, auricular and ventricular, 181- 

 185 ; ventricular, a simple contraction, 

 190; and diastole, comparative dura- 

 tion of, 212-214; amount of blood 

 driven by each, 153, 217; work of 

 papillary muscles in, 183, 184 



Systolic plateau, the, 197, 202, 207, 216 



Tactile sensations, 1037; localization of, 

 1039 



Tambour, Marey's, 192 



Tambour-sphygmoscope of Hiirthle, 220 



Tarsus of the eyelids, 976 



Taurocholic acid, 356 



Tears, secretion of, 978 



Tectorial membrane, 1011 



Teeth, order of their appearance, 1149 



Tegmentum, the, 815 



Temperature of living bodies, 2; as 

 affecting clotting, 20 ; irritability, 125, 

 128; plain muscle, 134; ciliary action, 

 136 ; vaso-motor fibres, 271, 288 ; action 

 of gastric juice, 328; action of rennet, 

 330; point of saturation of gas, 440; 

 absorption of oxygen by liquids, 462 ; 

 the cutaneous vessels, 555; perspira- 

 tion, 550, 555 ; storage of glycogen, 566 ; 

 sense of taste, 1031 



of expired air, 440; regulation of, 



by evaporation from the skin, 555; by 

 variations in loss of heat, 641, 643; by 

 the nervous system, 645, 646; of cold- 

 blooded animals, 641 ; of warm-blooded 

 animals, 641; normal, range of, 647; 

 high, phenomena of death from, 649; 

 low, effects of, 650; its relation to 

 amount of food needed, 668; of body, 

 maintenance of, 645; sensations of, 

 1041, 1056; terminal organs for sensa- 

 tions of, 1056 ; sense of, in parts other 

 than external skin, 1043 



Tendon reflexes, ' knee-jerk,' 705, 717 



Tenonian cavity and Tenon's capsule, 

 971 



Terminal organs, special sensations due 

 to, 1053; for sense of touch, 1054; for 

 sense of pressure, 1056 ; for sense of heat 

 different from those for sense of cold, 

 1056 ; cutaneous, their nature, 1057 



Tetanic contraction, its nature, 55 ; due 

 to repetition of stimuli, ib., 121 



