INDEX 



Regeneration of nerve-cells, 749 



of tissues, 864 

 Renal secretion, theories of, 400 



tubules, 397 

 Rennin, 303, 379 

 Reproduction, sexual, 865 

 Reserve air, 207 

 Residual air, 208 

 Resistance, electrical, 533 

 measurement of, 534 

 thermometer, 493, 579 

 Resonance tone of ear, 576 

 Respiration, accessory phenomena of, 203 

 afferent nerves of, 214, 272 

 apparatus, 224 



chemistry of, 223 248, 275-278 

 Cheyne-Stokes', 221 

 comparative physiology of, 192 

 cutaneous, 258 

 efferent nerves of, 211 

 external and internal, 192 

 frequency of, 206 

 heat lost in, 483, 497, 528 

 internal, 243 



influence of vagi on, 213, 272 278 

 of ' higher paths ' on, 213 

 of muscular exercise on, 216 

 influence of, on blood- pressure, 



249-256 

 on capacity of pulmonary vessels, 



252 



in condensed and rarefied air, 255-258 

 gaseous changes in, 224-229 

 mechanical phenomena of, 197 

 of muscle, 245-248 

 the first, 875 

 types of, 202 



Respiratory automatism, 715 

 capacity, 208, 274 

 centre, 211 



action of alcohol on, 165, 220 

 chloroform on, 219 

 venous blood on, 217 

 centres, spinal, 220 

 ' dead space,' 209 

 impurity, permissible, 227 

 organs, anatomy of, 193 

 pressure, 210 

 quotient, 225, 278 



in excised muscles, 248 

 in muscular work, 227 

 sounds, 203 

 tracings, 204, 205, 271 

 .Restiform body, 678, 679, 689, 700 

 and direct cerebellar tract, 682 

 and gracile and cuneate nuclei, 685 

 constituents of, 689 



Retina, curves of excitation of, 823, 824 

 development of, 660 

 fatigue of, 826 

 minimal stimulus of, 593 

 photography of", 804 

 sensibility of, for colours, 829 

 structure of, 781 



Retinal bloodvessels, shadows of, 810, 863 

 image, formation of, 857 



size of, 785 

 Rheocord, 537 

 simple, 616 



Rhinencephalon, 750 

 Rigor mortis, 585 



analogies to muscular contrac- 

 tion, 586 

 production of carbon dioxide in, 



247 



removability of, 588 

 time of onset of, 588 

 neat-, 587, 627 

 Ritter's tetanus, 639, 656 

 Rods and cones in vision, 813 

 Rolando, fissure of, 743 



substance of, 671, 675 

 Rontgen rays, for study of gastric move- 

 ments, 289 

 Roots of spinal nerves, functions of, 696- 



699, 767 



section and stimulation of, 767 

 Root-fibres, posterior, course of, in cord, 

 680-682, 700 



Saliva, amylolytic action of, 375 

 chemistry of, 295, 375 

 functions of, 297 

 paralytic secretion of, 340 

 reflex secretion of, 340 



in vomiting, 292 

 Salivary centre, 341 

 corpuscles, 296 

 glands, 296 



Salivary glands, action-currents of, 646 

 cranial nerves of, 334 

 sympathetic nerves of, 336 

 removal of, 490 

 Salt-hunger, 473 

 Salts in diet, 480 



in metabolism, 473-475 

 in milk, 474 

 Saponin, action of, on blood-corpuscles 



35.62 

 Sarcolactic acid in muscle, 583 



in rigor mortis, 585, 586, 627 

 Scalene muscles, in inspiration, 200 

 Schemer's experiment, 799, 53 

 Sciatic nerve, to expose, 185 

 Secondary contraction, 644, 651 



with heart, 179, 644 

 Secretion, internal, 482-490 



of kidney and pancreas, 483 

 of liver, 482 

 of ovary, 484 

 of pituitary body, 489 

 of spleen, 490 



of suprarenals, 487, 189, 622 

 of testes, 484 

 of thyroid, 485, 530, 531 

 of thymus, 499 

 paralytic, 340 



Secretory pressure of saliva, 334 

 Self-digestion of stomach, 330, 384 

 Semicircular canals, 732, 839, 840 

 Sensation, relation of, to stimulus, 8t;6 



localization of, 856 

 Senses, the, 771 

 Sensory areas, 748-751 



paths to brain, 680-685, 688, 690, 697, 



699, 700 



Sensori-motor functions of motor cortex, 

 751. 754 



