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INDEX 



Oatmeal as a food, 626 



in diabetes, 555 

 Obesity, 568 



Banting cure for, 606 

 treatment of, 570 

 Occipital lesions, 966 

 Oculo-motor nerve, 924, 982, 1023 

 Odours, classification of, 1076 

 (Esophagus, contractions of, 323, 817 



pulse, 99 

 Ohm's law, 725 

 Oleic acid, 556 

 Olein, 4 



Olfactometer, 1076 

 Olfactory bulb, 922 



nerve, 921 



Olivo-spinal tract, 867, 885 

 Oncometer, 507 

 Oophorin, 642 



Ophthalmometer, 1021, 1 105 

 Ophthalmoscope, 1031, II08 



Geneva, 1 1 10 

 Opsonins, 61 

 Optical illusions, 1041 

 Optic lobes, 932 



and inhibition of reflexes, 910, 



996 

 nerve, 922 



radiation, 883, 923 

 thalamus, 883, 932 

 Orcin reaction for pentoses, 528 

 Orientation, mechanism of, 936 

 Ornithin, 587, 613 

 Osmosis, 426 



and diffusion, in lymph formation, 



47i 

 Osmotic pressure, 426 



resistance of coloured corpuscles, 73 

 Ossicles, auditory, 1066, 1069 

 Otoliths, 937 

 Output of heart, 139 

 Ovaries, internal secretion of, 641 

 Ovary, influence on metabolism, 642 

 Overtones, 310, 313 

 Ovum, development of the, 1122 

 Oxalates, action of, on coagulation, 37, 64 



in urinary sediments, 478, 532 

 Oxalic acid, 481 

 Oxidation, seats of, 265 

 Oxidative process, nature of, 271 

 Oxidizing ferments or oxydases, 271, 272, 



306 



Oxybutyric acid, 555, 562, 567 

 Oxydases, 48, 76, 271, 306 

 Oxygen absorption, mechanism of, 263 

 capacity of blood, 251 

 coefficient of utilization of, 697 

 consumption of, 242, 243 



in different animals, 245 

 of different tissues, 268, 271 

 deficit, 620 

 distribution of, in blood, 252 



Oxygen, income and expenditure of, 619 

 partial pressure of, in alveoli, 241 



261, 263 



passage from blood into tissues, 266 

 tension in blood, 258, 261, 262 



Oxyntic cells, 375, 378, 380 



Oxyprolin, 360 



Pain, in internal organs, 901, 1093 

 referred, 891 

 sensations, 1085, 1089, 1116 



paths for, 896 

 Pancreas and glycolysis, 546 



and spleen, mutual relations of, 411 

 influence of nerves on, 405, 407 

 internal secretion, 636 

 islet tissue of, 638 

 removal of, in pregnancy, 638 

 secretory changes in, 376 

 Pancreatic diabetes, 546, 636 



juice, adaptation of, to lactose, 410 

 and bile, adjuvant action of, 



367, 368 

 artificial, 460 

 composition of, 358 

 ferments of, 358-363, 460 

 freezing-point of, 386 

 rate of secretion of, 410 

 secretion, influence of food on, 



409 



Panniculus adiposus, 568 

 Parabiosis, 638, 1146 

 Paradoxical contraction, 832, 844 

 Paraglobulin, 48 

 ' Paralytic ' secretion of intestinal juice, 



414 



of saliva, 397 

 Paraphasia, 972 

 Parasternal line, 90 

 Parathyroid, effects of removal of, 646 



location of, 645 



Parenteral absorption of proteins, 33 

 Parotid, secretory changes in, 375, 376 

 Paroxysmal tachycardia, electro-cardio- 

 gram, 836 



Parthenogenesis, 1123 

 Partial pressure of gases, 248 

 Parturition, 1137 



Peduncle, inferior, of cerebellum, 885 

 Pellagra and vitamines, 632 

 Pelvic nerves, 179, 332 

 Pendulum movements of intestines, 328 

 Pengavar Djambi as styptic, 1001 

 Pentoses, 528, 593 

 Pentosuria, 487 

 Peptases, 361 

 Peptides, 2 

 Peptones and coagulation, 37 



tests for, 10 

 Percussion, 232 

 Perfusion of heart, 205 

 Perikaryon, 850 



