Optic atrophy in acromegaly, 515. 



Oxalic-acid poisoning and haemoglobin 

 disintegration, 102; muscular weak- 

 ness in, 43; temperature in, 54; vas- 

 cular pressure in, 49. 



Oxidation of toxics and products of 

 metabolism, 646, 649. 



Oxidation-power of living tissues, 68. 



Oxidizing substance and alloxuric bod- 

 ies, 139; chemistry of, 132; and the 

 digestive organs, 296; diminished 

 consumption of, and adrenal insuf- 

 ficiency, 166; as a constituent of 

 antitoxin, 666, 728, 744; and glandular 

 secretion, 262; and fibrinogen, 734, 

 741, 745, 753; and myosinogen, 234; 

 as a poison-destroying agent, 646, 

 649; as a reagent in all functional 

 processes, 145, 293; source of, 130; 

 and uric acid, 137. 



Oxygen, absorption by tissues, 89; and 

 the adrenal secretion, 67; reduced 

 consumption of, and adrenal insuffi- 

 ciency, 166. 



Pachymeningitis as a symptom of 

 acromegaly, 515. 



Pain, abdominal, of adrenal origin, 22. 



Pallor and central congestion, 33; and 

 adrenal insufficiency, 88, 167. 



Pancreas, internal secretion of, 362, 

 420; functional mechanism of, 381, 

 385, 414; in the formation of glyco- 

 gen, 356, 369. 



Paraesthesia, the posterior pituitary 

 body and, 513, 514. 



Paralysis, adrenal insufficiency in, 44. 



Paralysis agitans as a symptom of ad- 

 renal insufficiency, 153. 



Paralysis and atropine poisoning, 56. 



Parotitis, immunizing medication in, 

 771. 



Peptones, neutrophile leucocytes as 

 source of, 703. 



Pernicious anaemia, urobilin in, 114. 



Pertussis, immunizing medication in, 

 771. 



Peyer's patches, function of, 315, 322, 

 325. 



Phagocytosis and the adrenal system, 

 610; and leucocytosis, 610; mechanism 

 of, 671, 676, 678, 679; neutrophile leu- 

 cocytes in, 688; trypsin as bacteri- 

 cidal agent in, 732. 



Phenacetin and haemoglobin disinte- 

 gration, 100. 



Phlegmasia alba uolens and adrenal 

 insufficiency, 94. 



Phloridzin and glycosuria, 363. 



INDEX. 797 



, 



Phosphorus, as active principle of leci- 

 thin, 177, 533; as active principle of 

 myeliu, 543; as active principle of 

 thymus gland, 179; basophile leu- 

 cocytes and, 718; cell-metabolism 

 and, 697; nervous energy and, 533, 

 536, 543; posterior pituitary body 

 and, 210, 213, 593; proportion of, in 

 nuclein, 532, 683; vital process and, 

 608. 



Phosphorus poisoning, and haemoglo- 

 bin disintegration, 98; muscular 

 weakness in, 43; temperature in, 54; 

 vascular pressure in, 49. 



Physostigma poisoning, and haemo- 

 globin dissociation, 99; muscular 

 weakness in, 43; temperature in, 54; 

 vascular pressure in, 50. 



Pilocarpine and lacrymation, 268; and 

 sweating, 279. 



Pituitary bodies, chemical constitu- 

 ents of, 188; as co-centers in sus- 

 taining vital processes, 483, 593, 606; 

 mutual relations of, 207, 213; phylo- 

 geny of, 491; effects of removal of, 

 187, 190; as the source of adrenal ac- 

 tivity, 215. 



Pituitary body, anterior, as general 

 center of the adrenal system, 186, 

 207, 215; as governing center of ox- 

 idation processes, 606. (See also Ad- 

 renals and Adrenal system.) 



Pituitary body, posterior, as an ag- 

 gregate of neurons, 596; as central 

 sensorium, 598; as center upon which 

 all emotions, shock, etc., react, 606; 

 as governing center of functional ac- 

 tivity, 606; histology of, 493, 500; as 

 general center of nervous system, 

 483, 511, 591; physiology of, 493, 591. 



Pituitary extract, action of, 188, 189, 

 191. 



Plague, immunizing medication in, 771. 



Platelets, nature of, 715. 



Pneumogastric, 421. 



Pneumonia, absence of alkaline salts 

 as cause of death in, 783; adrenal 

 overactivity in, 775; action of dig- 

 italis in, 61; leucocytosis in, 650; 

 pathogenesis of, 775; prune-juice 

 sputum and haemoglobin dissociation, 

 99; stercobilinuria in, 114. 



Poisoning, the adrenals in, 23, 27, 29, 

 34, 36, 37, 39; blood-disintegration in, 

 95, 102, 106; cerebral activity in, 55. 



Poisons, how converted into harmless 

 bodies, 639, 646, 659; and haemolysis, 



' 95, 102, 106; influence on tempera- 

 ture, 50; action on vascular pressure, 



