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INDEX. 



Mentally-weak children, absence of 

 thymus in, 175; thyroid extract in, 

 175. (See also Idiocy.) 



Mercurial poisoning, muscular weak- 

 ness in, 42; temperature in, 54; vas- 

 cular pressure in, 49. 



Mercury, biniodide as adrenal stim- 

 ulant, 770; and immunizing medica- 

 tion, 770; and haemoglobin dissocia- 

 tion, 99. 



Metabolism, reduction of, as a result 

 of adrenal insufficiency, 153, 167. 



Methaemoglobin, nature of, 103, 128. 



Methsemoglobinuria and adrenal insuf- 

 ficiency, 96, 99, 102, 128. 



Migraine, saline solution in, 785. 



Milk, fluid portion of, as an immuniz- 

 ing serum, 289, 607, 729. 



Mineral poisons, action on adrenals, 39. 



Mineral waters and alkalinity of the 

 blood, 785. 



Morphine, action on neurons, 520, 522. 



Morphine poisoning, temperature in, 54. 



Motor areas of gray substance as sen- 

 sory areas, 508. 



Motor nerves an autonomous system, 

 including vasomotors, 279; and mus- 

 cular contraction, 233, 247, 279; vaso- 

 constrictor function of, 253, 261; and 

 glandular secretion, 262. 



Muscles not supplied with separate 

 vasoconstrictors, 253, 261. 



Muscular atrophy in acromegaly, 514. 



Muscular contraction, confusion in pre- 

 vailing views, 236; functional process 

 of, 261; and motor nerves, 233; source 

 of chemical energy in, 239. 



Muscular hypernutrition and adrenal 

 overactivity, 186, 196, 512. 



Muscular hypertrophy in acromegaly, 

 186, 196, 512. 



Muscular tremor, fibrillary, as a symp- 

 tom of adrenal overactivity, 153. 



Muscular twitchings due to exacerba- 

 tions of adrenal activity, 161. 



Muscular weakness, the adrenals in, 

 40; and adrenal insufficiency, 153, 

 166, 197, 513. 



Myolin and the functional energy of 

 nerves, 543; basophile leucocytes as 

 source of, 725, 727. 



Myosinogen, functions of, in muscle- 

 fiber, 262; neutrophile leucocytes as 

 source of, 703; and the oxidizing 

 substance, 234; physiological chem- 

 istry of, 240. 



Myxcedema and adrenal insufficiency, 

 165, 170; and cretinism, adrenal in- 

 sufficiency in, 165, 170; and cretinism, 



difference between them, 167; the 

 posterior pituitary body in, 514; re- 

 duced tissue-metabolism in, 168. 



Nails, brittleness and striation of, and 

 adrenal insufficiency, 166. 



Narcolepsy in acromegaly, 513. 



Nerves, myelin as source of energy in, 

 534, 536, 543; physiological chemistry 

 of, 532. 



Nervous energy, source of, 533, 536, 543. 



Nervous system, general center of, 483, 

 591. 



Nervous system, including neurons, 

 composed of plasma-fibrils sur- 

 rounded by myelin, 560. 



Neuralgia, the posterior pituitary body 

 in, 777; in acromegaly, 514. 



Neurasthenia, the posterior pituitary 

 body in, 777. 



Neuroglia-cells as links between cir- 

 culation and neurons, 570, 587. 



Neuroglia-fibers as plasma-channels, 

 539, 543. 



Neuroglia-fibrils of the brain and cord, 

 their capillary supply, 582. 



Neuron, circulation of, 539, 559; direct 

 continuation of circulation by some 

 of its dendrites, 552; functions of 

 gemmules, 577; histology of, 518; 

 lecithin, the functional ground-sub- 

 stance of, 557; lymph-channels of, 

 586; physiology of, 519; physiological 

 chemistry of, 518, 519, 552; trans- 

 mission of vibrations between, 579, 

 581; varicosity of, in fatigue and 

 sleep, 522. 



Nicotine poisoning, temperature in, 53; 

 vascular pressure in, 50. 



Nitrite of amyl and haemoglobin dis- 

 integration, 100, 103, 104. 



Nitroglycerin and haemoglobin disin- 

 tegration, 100, 104. 



Numbness in cachectic stage of acro- 

 megaly, 514. 



Nutrition, impaired, as a symptom of 

 adrenal insufficiency, 166. 



(Edema, general, as a symptom of ad- 

 renal overactivity, 153. 



(Edema, laryngeal, iodine as cause of, 

 59. 



Ophthalmoplegia as a symptom of ad- 

 renal insufficiency, 154. 



Opium and anuria, 59. 



Opium poisoning and cerebral activ- 

 ity, 57; muscular weakness in, 42; 

 saline solution in, 667; temperature 

 in, 54; vascular pressure in, 49. 



