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INDEX. 



Contractile Tissues, 35 



Contraction, simple muscular, 39 



Contraction of muscle affected by load, 

 87 



Contrast, phenomena of, in vision, 537 



Coordinated movements, mechanism of, 

 614 



Coordinating nervous mechanisms, na- 

 ture and seat of, 618 



Coordination of visual movements, ner- 

 vous machinery of, 546 



Corpora quadrigemina, functions of, 638 



Corpora striata, functions of, 636 



Corpuscles of the blood, 11, 12, 22, 26, 

 27, 29 



Corresponding points, 541, 542* 



Corti, organ of, use in the analysis of 

 sounds, 561 



Crassamentum, or blood clot, 13 



Cranial nerves, 648 



,, ,, motor and sensory, 484 



Crura Cerebri, functions of, 641 



Crying, 383 



Curdling of milk, 430 



Cutaneous respiration, 386 



Cyclical changes in body, 691 



Cystin, 758a 



Diabetes, 424 

 Diagrammatic Eye, 492 

 Diagrams : 



Apparatus for experiments with mus- 

 cle and nerve, 42 

 The muscle-nerve preparation with 



clamp, electrodes &c, 43 

 Muscle-curve obtained by means of 



the pendulum myograph, 43 

 The pendulum myograph, 44 

 Curves illustrating the measurement of 



the velocity of a nervous impulse, 46 

 Tracing of a double muscle curve, 48 

 Muscle thrown into Tetanus, 49 

 Tracing produced with the ordinary 



magnetic interrupter of an induction 



machine, 50 



Magnetic interrupter, 51 

 Muscular fibre undergoing contraction, 



55 



Non-polarisable electrodes, 58 

 Electric currents of nerve and muscle, 



59 



Muscle-nerve preparation, 77 

 Variations of irritability during elec- 



trotonus, 79 



Electrotonic currents, 81 

 Simplest forms of a nervous system, 



104 



Apparatus for investigating blood- 

 pressures, 120 

 Tracing of arterial pressure with a 



mercury manometer, 121 

 Large kymograph with continuous 



roll of paper, 123 

 Ludwig's stromuhr, 125 

 Simultaneous tracings from the in- 

 terior of the right auricle, from the 



Diagrams: 



interior of the right ventricle, and 

 of the cardiac impulse in the horse, 

 139 

 Marey's tambour, with cardiac sound, 



140 



Cardio-graphic tracing of cardiac im- 

 pulse in man, 146 

 Normal heart curve, 147 

 Goltz and Gaule's maximum mano- 

 meter, 151 

 Movements and sounds of the heart 



during a cardiac period, 155 

 Pulse curves, 162 

 Pulse tracing from carotid artery of 



healthy man, 165 



Pulse-curve from radial of man, 166 

 Anacrotic pulse-tracing from the ca- 

 rotid of rabbit, 166 



Dicrotism in radial pulse of man, 167 

 Normal pulse-wave in aorta of frog, 167 

 Anacrotic sphymograph tracing from 



the ascending aorta, 168 

 Pulse tracing from the dorsal pedis, 



168 



Influence of changes in the pressure 

 applied to the exterior of the vessel 

 on the form of the curve, 169 

 Normal pulse-curve from carotid of 



rabbit, 170 

 Dicrotic pulse-curve due to loss of 



blood, 171 



Tracing from radial of man, 173 

 Perfusion canula tied into frog's ven- 

 tricle ; Koy's apparatus modified by 

 Gaskell, 179 



Inhibition of frog's heart by stimula- 

 tion of the vagus, 185 

 Last cervical and first thoracic ganglia 



in the rabbit, 190 

 Last cervical and first thoracic ganglia 



in the dog, 191 

 Influence of cardiac inhibition on 



blood-pressure, 194 

 Vagus stimulation, 195 

 Effect on blood-pressure of stimu- 

 lating the depressor nerve in the 

 rabbit, 204 



Rise of blood-pressure from stimula- 

 tion of nostril with smoke, 205 

 Submaxillary gland of the dog with its 



nerves and blood-vessels, 258 

 Influence of food on the secretion of 



pancreatic juice, 265 

 Pancreas of the rabbit, 267 

 Section of a 'mucous' gland, 269 

 Gastric gland of mammal, 273 

 Section of a serous gland, the parotid 



of the rabbit, 274 



Changes in the parotid during secre- 

 tion, 274 

 Thoracic respiratory movements by 



Marey's pneumatograph, 316 

 Apparatus for taking tracings of the 

 movements of the column of air in 

 respiration, 319 



