570 INDEX 



Bile-salts, 261 



secretion of, 105, 213, 214 

 Bilirubin, 261 

 Biliverdin, 261 



Bipolar ceils — see Rod and Cone 

 Bladder, 176 



Biastomeres OAao-rb?, a bud ; M^po^. a division), 538 

 Blind spot of eye. 426, 427 

 Blister, how formed, 541 

 Blood, 93-129 



arterial and venous, 123-129 



in capillaries, 31, 170 



chemical composition of, 105 



circulation of, 23, 64 



evidence of indirect, 77 



coaKulation of, 04, 110 



composition of, 105 



corpuscles, 94-105, 223 



under intlaniniation, 80, 82 



longest possible course of. 41 



crystals, 99, 126 



flow, rat« of, 61, 64 



functions of, 23, 116 



gains and losses to, 170-175, 206 



gases in, 106, 124 



heat of. 25, 66, 105, 202 



of hepatic vein, sugar in, 217 



microscopic examination of, 93 



oxygen carried by, 24, 106, 127 



platelets, 82, 104 



portal, 215 



pressure, 59 



solids in plasma of, 108 



specific gravity of, 105 



of splenic vein, paucity of red corpuscles in, 223 



transfusion of, 117 



quantity of, in body. 116, 561 



supply, its influence on respiratory centre, 161 



weight of, in the body, 267 

 Blood vessels 30 et seq. 



peculiar epithelial lining of, 546 

 regulation of, by vaso-motor nerves, 67, 205, 496 

 of the retina, 431 

 Blushing, how effected, 66, 69 

 Body, human, general build of, 8, 561 



diagraiiitiiati(' section of, 11 



clemtMits present in, 562 



e(|uilibrium of, 523 



joints of. 318 et seq. 



various movements of the, 326 et seq. 



weights of various parts, 268, 561 



work done by, 282 

 Bone, canaliouli of. 310 



cancellated structure of, 308 



structure of, 304, 307, 311 

 Bones, considered as levers, 305, 314 



corpuscles, 313 



number of, in body, 14 



