INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 337 



CONDIMENTS, 231 



CRYSTALLOIDS, 251 ; crystalline character of, 251 ; solutions of, 

 252; osmotic pressure of, 252; molecular weight of, 252, 

 253; diffusion of, 253; and absorption, 254; examples of, 

 254 



CUL-DE-SAC, gastric, 189 



CYSTICERCI, 135 



CYTASE, 170; and cellulose, 284 



DEAD MATTER, 135, 136 



DEFECATION, act of, 35 ; time of, 40 



DEGLUTITION, voluntary control of, 4 ; involuntary character of, 

 4 ; experimental observations on, 4 ; muscles concerned in, 

 4; of liquids, 5, 6; of solids, 5, 6; in cats, 5; in fowls, 5; 

 in dogs, 6; in man, 6; time required for, 6; nervous con- 

 trol of, 41; centre for, 41 



DEXTRIN, 99, 102; and maltose, 104 



DEXTROSE, and maltase, 104; as chief sugar of the body, 282, 

 283 



DIABETES, starvation, 284, 285; from sodium chloride injec- 

 tions, 315 



DIASTASE (see Amylase) 



DIET and gastric secretion, 192; and pancreatic secretion, 216 



DIFFUSION, 250, 257, 258; of colloids and crystalloids, 252, 253, 

 254, 257, 258; of gases, 257; of chemicals into protoplasm, 

 271, 272 



DIFFUSION VELOCITY, of salts, 276, 277 



DIGESTIVE GLANDS, adaptation of, to food, 234 



DISSOCIATION, electrolytic, 260 



DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT, 272 



DUODENUM, passage of food into, 14; effect of acid in, 20; 

 secretion of, 245 ; ferments found in, 245 



DYSENTERY, SHIGA bacillus of, 317 



ELECTROLYTE, 260 



ELECTROLYTIC DISSOCIATION, 260 



EMOTION, effect of, on alimentary movements, 44 



EMULSIFICATION of fats, 240 



EMULSIN, 8 



