INDEX 



Bile, secretory pressure of, 414 



spectrum of, 365 

 Biliary fistula, 369, 412 

 Bilirubin, 364 

 Biliverdin, 364 

 Bioplasm. See Protoplasm, and Living 



matter 



Bipolar ganglion cells, 856 

 Bird's blood, coagulation of, 36, 43 

 Biuret reaction, 8, 459 

 Bladder, 510 



pressure in, in micturition, 510 

 Blastoderm, 1125 

 Blind spot, 1044, 1064, 1107 

 mapping the, 1064 

 Blood, bird's, 36 



carbon dioxide content of, 26, 255 



chemical composition of, 47 



circulation of, 80 



coagulation of, 33, 62 



composition of, 49 



-corpuscles, coloured, composition 



of, 50 



osmotic resistance of, 73 

 crenation of, 16 

 destruction of, 21 

 dextrose in, 50, 540, 717 

 enumeration of, 18, 67 

 formation of, in embryo, 20 

 gaseous metabolism of, 252 

 life-history of, 20 

 in pernicious anaemia, 21 

 red, 15 



destruction of, 2 1 

 origin of, 20 



rouleaux formation of, 16 

 shadows or ghosts of, 70 

 size of, 15 

 structure of, 15 

 white. See Leucocytes 

 distribution of, 56, 189 

 electrical conductivity of, 26. 68 

 flow, calorimetric method of mea- 

 suring, 122 



in different organs, 127 

 in feet, 127 

 in hands, 126 



measurement of, 219 

 functions of, 59 

 gases of, 245-266 



estimation by ferricyanide, 250 

 quantity of, 250 

 tension of, 258 



results, 261 

 guaiacum test for, 76 

 kinetic and potential energy of cir- 

 culating, 119 

 laking of, 70 



measurement of velocity of, 120-124 

 morphology of, 14 

 opacity of, 70 

 pigment, microscopic test for. 78 



Blood pigment, preparation of, 73 

 plasma, proteins of, 47, 572 



relative volume of, 27, 68 

 plates, 18 

 platelets and coagulation, 39, 40 



anticoagulants and preserva- 

 tion of, 40 

 disintegration of, 40 

 functions of, 62 

 precipitin test for, 31 

 quantity of, 55 

 in lungs, 224 

 which may be lost, 191 

 reaction of, 24, 62 

 regeneration of, 22 

 relative volumes of corpuscles and 



plasma, 27, 68 

 serum, electrical- conductivity of, 



26, 27, 68, 386 

 freezing-point of, 386 

 specific gravity of, 26, 62 

 sugar in, 47, 499, 502, 533, 540, 547 



549, 55i, 552, 636, 657, 717 

 temperature of, 680, 711 

 testing for adrenalin in, 656, 657, 662 

 tests for, 45-47 

 titratable alkalinity, 25 

 vaso-constrictor property of shed, 45 

 velocity of , 117-127 



in arteries, 119, 125 

 in capillaries, 120, 130 

 in veins, 120, 134 

 measurement of, 120, 122, 219 

 vessels, suturing, 1144 

 viscosity of, 23, 502 

 volume of corpuscles and plasma 



27,68 

 why it does not clot in the vessels, 



45 

 Blood-pressure, arterial, measurement of, 



107 



and acapnia, 184 

 curves with elastic manometers, 93, 



in 

 with mercurial manometers, 



no, 112, 210 

 effect of changes of posture on, 190, 



213 

 of extracts of bone-marrow on, 



671, 673 



of freezing the cord on, 184 

 of hemorrhage and transfusion 



on, 191, 214 

 of kidney on, 671 

 of muscular exercise on, 115,213 

 of nervous tissue on, 673 

 of peptone on, 173, 215 

 of pituitary on, 668 

 of proteoses on, 173, 215 

 of suprarenal on, 171, 216, 655 

 of testicle on, 642 

 of thymus on, 645 



