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PHYSIOLOGY 



Alimentary protein, 329 

 Alkaloids, absorption, 331 



faeces, 359 



urine, 359 



Allantoin, urine, 382 

 Alloxuric. See Purine 

 Alveoli, secretory, 5 

 Arnidulin, 157, 175 

 Amino- acids, 211, 212, 221, 288, 293, 



384, 387 

 Ammonia, of blood, 336 



of intestine, 336 



of liver, 336 



origin, 384 



of sweat, 491 



of urine, 409 

 Ammonium carbamate, 384, 410 



carbonate, 380, 383, 384, 410 



cyanate, 382, 386 



Amoebae, and proteolytic enzymes, 258 

 Amphopeptorie, 212 

 Amygdulin, 278 

 Amylogenesis, 302, 330 

 Amyloids, digestion of, 179 

 Amylolytic ferment. See Diastase 

 Amylopsin, 96, 208, 212 

 Anabolic processes, 343 

 Animal gum, 402 



starch, 301 

 Anorexia, 17 



Anthrax bacillus, and gastric juice, 180 

 Anti-diaphoretics, 489 

 Anti-diastase, 321 

 Anti-ferments, Ascaridae, 260 

 Anti-peptone, 211 

 Antiseptic action, bile, 220 



gastric juice, 179 

 Antitoxicity, adrenals, 50, 55, 56 



liver, 331 



parathyroids, 35 



thyroid, 22, 27 

 Anuria, auto-intoxication, 338 



cholera, 413 



and cutaneous secretion, 489 



hysterical, 361, 453 



Anus preternaturalis, 126, 128, 217, 228 

 Apomorphine, emetic action, 196, 201 

 Appendices epiploicae, 368 

 Appendix, vermiform, 365 

 Arginine, 384, 392 

 Aromatic compounds, 393 



oxy-acids, urine, 382 

 Arsenic, renal secretion, 443 

 Ascaridae, and digestive ferments, 258, 



260 

 Asphyxia, and bile ducts, 216 



and glycaemia, 308 

 Atropine, action on gastric secretion, 109 



action on milk secretion, 515 



action on salivation, 72 



action on sweat, 489, 498 

 Auerbach's plexus, 198, 233, 246, 247 

 Auto-digestion, 252-260 



Auto-intoxication, 22, 24 

 Autolytic cleavage products, 406 

 Azygos nerve, 516 



Bacillus mesentcricus, 224 

 Bacteria, action, digestive, 223, 225 



action, fermentative, 223, 226 



action, putrefactive, 180, 223, 225 



chromogenic, of sweat, 492 



of faeces, 346 



of intestine, 224, 360 



of stomach, 179, 180, 223 ; action of 

 gastric juice on, 180 



of urine, 380 

 Bacterium coli commune, faeces, 346 



intestine, 224 

 Bacterium ureae, 380 

 Balance, organic, 329 

 Basedow's disease, 28 

 Bile, 134, 207, 212 



action on alkaloids, 333 



action, amylolytic, 209 



action, antagonistic to pepsin, 218 



action, antiseptic, 220 



action, coadjuvant, 221, 281 



action, digestive, 217 ; in vitro, 172, 

 212 



action, emulsifying, 212 



action on mucous membrane, 284 



action, peristaltic, 220 



canaliculi, 131 



composition of, 143, 144 



diastase of, 144 



entero-hepatic circulation, 140 



enzymes, 144 



excretion of, 213 



and fat absorption, 281 



and fatty acids, 220 



fistula, 135 



flow, 216 ; innervation, 141, 215 



and movements of intestine, 237 



origin of, 135, 146, 329 



pressure, 142 



secretion of, 131, 134, 140, 213 



toxicity, 414 

 Bile acids, 143, 220 



ducts, 131, 132, 214 ; contractility, 

 216 ; innervation, 215, 216 



pigments, 144, 146, 360, 398 



salts, 143, 146, 220 

 Bilirubin, 144, 346 



conversion to urobilinogen, 398 



of faeces, 346 ; of liver, 399 

 Biliverdin, 144, 346 



of faeces, 346 

 Biotoxin, 415 

 Biuret test, 173 

 Bladder, 460 



absorption in, 475 



innervation, 470 



nerve centres, 474 



sphincters of, 461, 464 



structure, 460 



