INDEX 593 



Permeability of membrane, 192 



Perspective, aerial and solid, 450 ff„„t„j k„ omntinn 



Perspiratiou (per. through ; spiro, I breathe) affected by emotion, 

 201 



amount of matter lost by. 199 



sensible and insensible, 198 

 Pes of the crus cerebri, 528 

 Petrosal (jrerpa. a rock) bone, 372 

 Pever's patches, 256 



Phalanges (<f>dXav^. a rank of soldiers), 18 

 Pharyngeal muscies. 517 

 Pharvnx (^ipi/.-f, the throat), 10. 129 235 

 Phosphene (*w?, Ught : <i>aCrtj. I display). 429 

 Phosphorus present in human body. •''62 

 Phrenic l't>prif. the diaphragm) nerves, 1.^8 

 Physiology, human, defined. 4 



ultimate analysis of, 536 

 Pia mater, 453. 465 „ ^ ,. •, ,n^ .oj 



Pigment {pigmentuyn. paint) cells of choroid. ■»01.„*''* 



of web of frog, /8, 81 

 Pillars of the diaphragm, 143 



of the fauces, 229 

 Pineal gland. 503, 504 . 



Pituitary (pituita, phlegm or mucus) body, o02 



Pivot joint, 321 ^ n, no ^r^y 



Plasma (nXda-^a. workmanship) of the blood, 94-98, 107 



solids in, 108, 114 

 Platelets, blood-. 82, 104 

 •• Playing at sight," 527 

 Pleura (TrAeupa. a rib or side), 13d 



Plexuses of the sympathetic system. 49o „o,„„= 7q t;ni 



Pneumogastric (r-n;^<o.'. lung : yao-r-ip, the stomach) nerves, /3, 501 



heart's action arrested by means of, 496 

 Poisoning by carbonic acid, 163, 164 . -j^ i«, 



by sulphuretted hydrogen and carbonic oxide, 164 

 Polymorphous layer of cerebral cortex, 515 

 Pons Varolii, 500, 501, 506 

 Portal (porta, a gat«), circulation, 40. 210. 211. 21/. 249 



passage ot lood into the, 266 

 Position, erect, how maintained, 17 

 Posterior cornu, 457 . 



nerve roots, sensory in function, 4<3 



root, ganglion of the, 456 

 Postero-median'tract of spinal cord, 491 

 Potatoes, 563 



as food, 273, 563 



Pressure, atmospheric, 154 . . , , j ■ • • ..• i ^q 



on heart, diminished durmg inspiration, lo9 



partial, of gases. 154 



sensations of, 352 

 " Pressure spots." 352 

 " Primitive sheath " of nerve-fibres, 461 



Pronation (promts, face downwards) of hmbs, 325 „,„nroa+iP 



Protein (^pi>ros, first ; eI5o9, shape) material, acted^on^by pancreatic 



blood corpuscles formed 



of, 97, 103 

 composition of, 108 



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