INDEX 



893 



Urine, examination of, 434 



ferments in, 391 



haematoporphyrin in, 391 



hippuric acid in, 389 



incontinence of, 416 



indoxyl in, 392, 393, 423 



in disease, 392-396 



in starvation, 462, 463 



kreatinin in, 390, 445, 428 



leucin and tyrosin in, 395, 442, 434 

 i methaemoglobin in, 391 



oxalic acid in, 390 



phenol in, 392 



phosphoric acid in, 391, 422 



pigments of, 311, 390 



proteids in, 395, 396, 428-430 



quantity of, 386, 393, 394 



secretory pressure of, 408 



sediments of, 387, 388, 395, 43* 



specific gravity of, 386, 394, 420 



sugar in, 395, 430-433 



sulphuric acid in, 392, 395, 422 



total nitrogen in, 425 



urates in, 387, 395 



urea in, 388, 394, 424 



xanthin bases in, 389, 395 



secretion of, 396 



action of glomeruli in, 406 

 action of ' rodded ' epithelium 



in, 404-406 



Adami's experiments on, 406 

 Heidenhain'sexperimentson, 405 

 Nussbaum's experiments on, 406 

 influence of circulation on, 409 

 of drugs on, 414 

 of nerves on, 409-413 

 theories of, 400 

 work done by kidney in, 404 

 Urobilin, 311, 359, 390 

 Urochrome, 390 

 Uroerythrin, 390 



Vagi, section of both, 220, 278 

 Vagus nerve, 724 



and hypoglossal, union of, 757 

 Vagus, cardiac fibres of, in frog, 134, 171, 



centre, effect of suprarenal extract on, 



189, 488 



in mammals, 139, 178, 185 

 tracings, 135, 136, 173 

 relation of, to respiration, 213, 272 

 Valsalva's experiment, 256 

 Valves of heart, action of, 75, 181 



moment of opening and closure 



of, 87 



of veins, 69 



Valvulae conniventes, 365 

 Varnishing skin, 420, 513 

 Vaso-constrictors and dilators, differences 



between, 150 

 Vaso-dilator fibres of chorda tympani, 154 



nervi erigentes, 155 

 Vaso-motor centres, 158, 159 

 in sleep, 763 

 peripheral, 159, 694 

 Vaso-motor nerves, 148-166 



methods of investigating, 148, 

 149 



Vaso-motor nerves of brain, 151, 154 



cervical sympathetic, 150, 190 



course of, 156 



of heart, 153 



of kidney, 152 



of limbs, 152 



of lungs, 154 



of muscles, 153 



of veins, 155 



in splanchnics, 152 



in trigeminus, 151 

 Vaso-motor reflexes, 160, 186 

 Vein, to put a cannula in, 177 

 Veins, circulation in, 120 

 Veins, pulse in, 119 



vaso-motor nerves of, 155 

 velocity of blood in, 122 

 Vella's fistula, 315 

 Velocity of blood, 105-115 



in arteries, 114, 115 



in capillaries, 109, 118 



in veins, 109, 122 



measurement of, 110-112 

 Velocity-pulse, curves of, 113, 114 

 Velocity of the nerve-impulse, 603, 625 

 Ventilation, 226 

 Ventricles of brain, 666 

 Vesicular murmur, 203 

 Vestibule, 732, 839, 840 



and equilibration, 732 

 VestibuJar branch of auditory nerve, 689, 



723 



Villi, 368 



Vision, colour, 820 



far point of, 797 



near point of, 797 



physical introduction to, 773 



stereoscopic, 806 

 Visual angle, 785 



axis, 796 



centres, 748 



judgments, 807 



path, scheme of, 720 



purple, 816 



regeneration of, 817 

 Vital capacity, 208, 274 

 Vitreous humour, 782 



opacities in, 796, 810 

 Vocal cords, 260, 262 



paralysis of, 271 

 Voice, production of, 259, 261 



pressure in trachea in, 262 



in children, 263 

 Volt, 534 

 Volume of corpuscles and plasma in 



blood, 35 



Voluntary contraction, fatigue in, 568, 

 621 



nature of, 576 

 Vomiting, 292 



centre, 293 



caused by apomorphine, 379, 383 

 Vowels, Helmholtz's theory of, 267 



Hermann's theory of, 268 

 Vowel cavities, 268 



Warrington on changes in motor-cells 



after section of posterior roots, 667 

 Water, production of, in body, 472 



