INDEX. 



References to the Practical Exercises are in black figures. 



ABDOMINAL breathing, 202 

 Abducens, or sixth nerve, 722 

 Aberration, chromatic, 794 



spherical, 794 

 Absorption of light, 778 



oi the food, 363 



physical introduction to, 360 

 theories of, 366-368 



of cane-sugar, 365, 372, 383 



of carbo-hydrates, 372 



of fat, 370, 382 



of proteids, 372 



from the stomach, 352, 365 

 Accelerator nerves of heart, 139 

 Accessory nucleus, 723 

 Accommodation, 786, 857 



mechanism of, 788 

 Acerebral tonus, 734 

 Acetone, in urine, 433 



in diabetes, 453 



Aceto-acetic acid in diabetes, 453 

 Acid albumin, 21, 302, 378 

 Acidity of gastric juice, 301, 351 

 Action currents, 629, 630-638, 628, 653 



diphasic, 630 



electromotive force of, 634 



of eye, 647 



of glands, 646 



of heart, 631, 644, 653 



of human muscles, 635 



of phrenic nerves, 635 



in polarized nerves, 641 



of spinal cord, 645, 659, 702 



reflex, 663 



theories, of, 636 

 Adenin, 444 



'Adequate' stimuli, 758, 772 

 Aerotonometer, 240 

 Afferent impulses, decussation of, 701 



paths of, 703 

 After-images, 826 

 Agraphia, 752 

 Albumin, reactions of, 21 



in urine, 395, 402, 406, 428, 435 

 Albuminates or derived albumins, 21 

 Albuminous glands, 295 [188 



Albumoses, action of, on blood-pressure, 

 on coagulation, 43, 45, 188 



tests for, 22, 377 



in urine, 429 

 Alcohol, action of, on respiratory centre, 



165, 220 

 Alcohol in diet, 481 



Alexins, 56 



Alimentary canal, anatomy of, 281 



length of, 280 



glycosuria, 527 

 Alkali- albumin, 22, 306, 381 

 Allantois, formation of, 870 

 Alloxan bodies, 444 

 Amblyopia after occipital lesion, 749 

 Amnion, 870 



Amoeboid movement, 28, 545 

 Ampere, 533 



Amyl nitrite, action on the pulse, 93, 183 

 Amylolytic stage of gastric digestion, 350 

 Amylopsin, 306, 379 

 Anabolic changes in living matter, 19 

 Anacrotic pulse, 94 

 Anaesthesia by A C E mixture, 58 



by chlora'l, 189 



by morphia, 58, 176 



by pressure on brain, 763 

 Anelectrotonus, 595, 597 

 Angular gyrus and vision, 749 

 Animal heat, 491 

 Ankle- clonus, 707, 708 

 Anions, 362 



Annulus of Vieussens, 139, 179 

 Anterior horn, cells of, 674 



connections of, 686 

 Antero-lateral ascending tract, 676, 683 



descending tract, 677, 687 



ground bundle, 677 

 Anti-peptone, 308 

 Antipyretics, 516 



Antiseptics for operations, 190, 530 

 Antrum pylori, 288 

 Aorta, effect of compression of, 179 

 Apex-beat, 79, 182 

 Aphasia, motor, 751 



sensory, 753 



temporary, 753 

 Apnoea, 218 



Apomorphine as an emetic, 379 

 Arcuate fibres, external, 685 



internal, 684 

 Arginine, 443 



Argyll-Robertson pupil, 791 

 Artery, to insert cannula into, 58 

 Articulation, positions of, 267 

 Ascending degeneration, 676 

 Aspartic acid, 443 

 Asphyxia, 217 



effect of, on circulation, 162, 179, 186 



in the foetus, 875 



