INDEX 



891 



Serous glands, 295 

 Serum, 36, 45 



albumin, 45, 60 

 globulin, 38, 45, 60 

 proteids in starvation, 437 



source of, 436 

 Shock, 693 

 Sighing, 222 



Single vision, theories of, 804 

 Sixth nerve, or abducens, 722 

 Skate, electrical organ of, 650 

 Skatol, 308, 359 

 Skin currents, 647 



impulses from, in equilibration, 731 

 varnishing of, 259 

 Sleep, 761 



cerebral circulation in, 762 



depth of, 764 



intra-cranial pressure in, 763 



plethysmographic tracings from arm 



in, 763 



theories of causation of, 762 

 Smell, 847 



centre for, 750 



Snake venom, effect of, on coagulation, 43 

 Sneezing, 222 



Soret's haemoglobin band, 49 

 Sound, cranial conduction of, 843 

 Specific energy, 758, 845 

 Spectroscope, 46, 62 

 Speech, 266 



Spermatozoa, development of, 865 

 Spherical aberration, 794 

 and irradiation, 833 

 Sphygmograph, 90, 182 

 Sphygmomanometer, 104 

 Spinal accessory nerve, 724, 726 

 Spinal cord, action currents of, 645, 659, 702 

 anatomy of, 674 



ascending tracts of, 676, 680 685 

 automatic functions of, 712-715 

 centres of, 715 

 conduction of impulses by, 696- 



704 



descending tracts of, 676, 685 

 excitability of fibres of, 696 

 functions of, 696-716 

 hemisection of, 701 

 complete section of, 676, 693 

 removal of, 694 



action of strychnine on, 710, 768 

 white matter of, 675 

 Spinal ganglion, cells of, 664 



relation of, to posterior root- 

 fibres, 680 



Spinal reflexes, 704-712, 768 

 centres for, 707, 708 

 inhibition of, 705, 768 

 relation of brain to, 705, 706 

 Spirometer, 207 

 Splanchnic nerves, 152 

 Spleen and blood-formation, 32 

 and blood-destruction, 33 

 and formation of bile-piyinent, 490 

 and formation of trypsin, 490 

 removal of, 490 

 Spongioblasts, 660 

 Spring myograph, 560 

 ' Staircase ' or ' treppe,' 133, 566 



Standing, 737 



Stannius' experiment, 142, 175 

 Stapedius, 839, 843 

 Stapes, 838, 842 



Starch, action of acids on, 23, 300 

 digestion by saliva, 297, 375 

 tests for, 23 

 Starvation, metabolism in, 461, 462 



serum proteids in, 437 

 Stasis, 57 

 Stationary air, 208 

 Steapsin, 306 

 Stenson's experiment, 588 

 Stercobilin, 311, 359 

 Stereoscope, 806 

 Stereoscopic vision, 806 

 Selling's sacral and cervical nuclei, 674 

 Stimulants, 481 



Stimuli, summation of, 571, 623 

 Stomach, absorption from, 352 

 auto-digestion of, 330, 384 

 excision of, 356 

 movements of, 288 

 nerves of, 290 



Stroma of coloured corpuscles, 27 

 Stromuhr, no 



Strychnia, action of, on cord, 577, 710, 768 

 Sublingual ganglion, 333 

 Substance of Rolando, 664, 671 

 Succus entericus, 315 



action of, in digestion, 357 

 influence of nerves on, 347 

 Sugar, absorption of, 372, 383 

 destruction of, in blood, 453 

 estimation of, by Fehling's solution, 



431 



by polari meter, 432 

 in blood, 402, 446, 449, 452 

 excretion of, by kidneys, 402, 406, 



526 



fate of, in organism, 449 

 formation of, in liver, 446 

 and muscular contraction, 584, 585 

 in urine, 395, 435 

 phenyl-hydrazine test for, 431 

 Trommer's test for, 23 

 yeast test for, 431 

 Sulphocyanide in saliva, 296, 375 



in urine, 392 

 Sulphates in urine, 392 

 estimation of, 422 

 Summation of stimuli, 571, 623 

 Superior laryngeal nerve and respiration, 



215, 272 



Superposition of contractions, 571, 623 

 Supplemental air, 207, 274 

 Suprarenal capsules, secretion of, 487, 189, 



622 



extract, action of, 147, 189, 488, 622 

 Surface of body, relation to mass, 479, 512 

 Suspensory ligament, 782 



iu accommodation, 788 

 Sutures, 190 

 Swallowing, effect of, on pulse-rate, 146, 



184 

 Sweat, 416 



centres, 419 

 nerves, 418-420 

 quantity of, 418 



