882 



INDEX 



Conductivity, molecular, 363 

 specific, 363 

 of nerve, effect of temperature on, 



595- 600 



effect of voltaic current on, 596 

 Conjugate deviation, 748 

 Consonants, 266, 267 

 Contraction, law of, 597, 655 



for nerves in situ, 599 

 without metals, 628, 651 

 secondary, 644, 651 

 Contrast, 827 



Co-ordination of movements, 735 

 Cornea, radius of curvature of, 783 

 Corona radiata, 672, 687 

 Corpora quadrigemina, 684, 718, 727 



striata, 514, 671, 728 

 Corpus callosum, 672, 691 

 Cortex of brain, functions of, 739 

 motor areas of, 743 

 sensory areas of, 748 

 Corti, ganglion of, 723 

 Corti's organ, 840, 841 

 Costal breathing, 202 

 Coughing, 222 



Cranial conduction of sound, 843 

 nerves, 717-726 



homologies of, 717 

 Crista acustica, 732 

 Crossed pyramidal tract, 676 

 connections of, 685 

 Cross-circulation through brain, 218 

 Crura cerebri, 680 

 Crusta, 680 

 Cuneate funiculus, 681 

 nucleus, 681, 682 



relation of, to fillet, 684 

 Cuneus, and vision, 749 

 Curara, action of, on skeletal muscle, 550, 



617 



on heart, 141 

 on heat-production, 510 

 Curdling of milk by rennin, 304, 379 

 Currents of action. See Action currents 

 Cutaneous burns, death from, 259 

 excretion, 417 

 respiration, 258 



Cybulski's method of measuring velocity 

 of blood, 113 



Daniell cell, 173, 517 

 ' Dead space,' respiratory, 209 

 Deaf mutes, equilibration in, 733 

 Decussation of afferent impulses, 701 



of efferent impulses, 701 



of fillet, 684 



of optic nerve, 719, 748 



of pyramids, 679, 687 

 Defaecation, 291 

 Deficiency phenomena, 694 

 Degeneration of muscles, 609, 714 



of nerves, 605 



reaction of, 609 

 Deglutition, 285 



centre, 287 



nerves of, 287 



sounds, 349 

 Demarcation current, 629, 652 



theories of, 636 



Dendrites, 662 



amoeboid movements of, 663 



and sleep, 764 



in dementia, 766 



Dentate nucleus of cerebellum, 689 

 Depressor nerve, 145, 160, 191 

 Descending degeneration, 676, 685 

 Development of embryo, 867 

 Dextrin, tests for, 23 



formed in salivary digestion, 298, 376 

 Dextrose, Trommer's test for, 23 



estimation of, in urine, 431 

 Diabetes, 394, 449, 451 



levulose used up in, 453 



pancreatic, 452, 483 



phloridzin, 452, 527 



sugar-destroying power of blood in, 



453 



Diapedesis, 56 



Diaphragm in respiration, 199 

 Diastase, 299 

 Dicrotic wave, 92 

 Dietaries, standard, 475-479 

 Dietetics, 475-482 

 Differential rheotome, 634 

 Diffusion, 360 



of gases, 230 

 Digestion, bacteria and, 357 



chemical phenomena of, 294-315 



of fats, 356 



in intestine, 353 



in stomach, 350 



mechanical phenomena of, 283-289 



time required for, 383, 384 

 Digestive glands, structure of, 318 



juices, action of drugs on, 347 

 secretion of, 317 



organs, in different animals, 280 

 Diopter, 788 

 Diplopia, 720, 804, 834 

 Direct cerebellar tract, 676, 682 



pyramidal tract, 676 

 Discharge of ventricle, period of, 87 

 Dispersion in eye, 794 



by a prism, 776 

 Diuretics, 414 



Double conduction in nerve, 601 

 Double images, neglect of, 806 

 Dromograph, in 

 Ductus arteriosus and ductus venosus, 



872 



Dura mater, 669 

 Dyspnoea, 217, 272 



heat-, 218, 272 



Ear, anatomy of, 837 



ossicles of, 838, 841 



resonance tone of, 576 

 Eck's fistula, 328, 441 

 Ectoderm, 19 

 Efferent impulses, decussation of, 687, 701 



paths of, 701 

 Egg-albumin, excretion of, 403 



reactions of, 21 

 Elasticity of muscle, 548 

 Electric fishes. 648 

 Electrocardiogram, human, 645 

 Electrodes, unpolarizable, 542, 652 

 Electrolytes, 362 



