INDEX. 



653 



Prosencephalic vertebrae, ii. 597 

 Prostate gland, ii. 541 

 Prostatic portion of the urethra, ii. 

 543 



Proteiue, i. 39 



Proteus, kidney of, ii. 487 



Prout, Dr., on the acid of the gastric 

 juice, ii. 204 ; experiments on di- 

 gestion, 201; on the effects of alcohol 

 in respiration, 406 ; on the classifi- 

 cation of food, 151 ; on the gastric 

 juice, 200 ; on the absorption of the 

 yolk, 619 



Proximate principles, i. 6, 7, 35 



Puberty, ii. 560 



Pulmonary, artery, ii. 386 ; sacs, 385; 

 tissue, 387 ; veins, 335 



Pulmonic circulation, ii. 347 



Pulp, cavity of tooth, ii. 167 



Pulse, ii. 345, 353 ; quality of, 354 ; 

 small, hard, wiry, 357 ; of marmot 

 during hybernation, 425 



Puncta lachrymalia, ii. 43 



Pupil, ii. 25 



Purgatives, saline, action of, ii. 284 



Purkinje, and Pappenheim, on artificial 

 digestion, ii. 209 ; and Valentin, on 

 ciliated epithelium of lateral ven- 

 tricles, i. 290 



Putrefaction, i. 18 



Pyloric, follicles in fishes, ii. 218 ; 

 tubes, 195 ; valve in fishes, 218 



Pylorus, characters of the mucous 

 membrane of, ii. 194 ; effects of ob- 

 struction of, 211 



Pyramids of tympanum, ii. 69 ; of 

 kidney, 486 



Pyramidal bodies of medulla, disease 

 of, i. 344 



QUADRUMANA, intestinal canal of, ii. 

 221 



Quality of sounds, ii. 87 



Quantity of bile secreted in twenty- 

 four hours, ii. 480 ; of blood in the 

 body, 292 ; of urine, 497 



BABBIT, development of spermatozoa 

 in, ii. 547 ; pancreatic duct of, 246 

 Kainey, Mr., on epithelium of serous 

 membranes, ii. 452; on the liga- 

 ments of the uterus, ii. 558; on 

 the pulmonary capillaries, 394 

 Ransom, Dr., on the micropyle, ii. 569 

 Rapp on the nerves of taste, i. 443 

 Rat, spermatozoa of, ii. 546 

 Rate of the circulation, ii. 381 

 Reaction of healthy urine, ii. 497 

 Reaumur on gastric juice, ii. 197 ; and 



Spallanzani on the movements of 

 the stomach, 196 



Receptaculum, chyli, ii. 271 ; semiuis, 

 534 



Recrementitious substances, ii. 450 



Rectum, ii. 217, 266 ; folds of, 226 



Red blood corpuscles, ii. 297, chemical 

 composition of, 309 



Rees, Dr. G. O., analysis of bone, i. 99 ; 

 analysis of lymph and chyle, ii. 282 ; 

 on extractive matters in the urine, 

 ii. 502 ; on urea in milk, 500 



Reflex actions, imperfectly controlled 

 by the will, i. 333 ; in vomiting, ii. 

 214 



Reflexion, laws of, ii. 44 : from retina, 

 51 



Refracting media of eye, ii. 15; power 

 of vitreous body, 33 ; of lens, 36 



Regnault and Reiset on the relation 

 of oxygen and carbonic acid in 

 respired air, ii. 410 



Regurgitant venous pulse, ii. 377 



Regurgitation through valves of heart 

 prevented, 339 



Reichert, on the development of the 

 allantois, ii. 620 ; of the liver, 607 ; 

 of the lungs, 605 ; nervous system, 

 599 ; on the investing membrane 

 and membrana intermedia, 582 



Reid, Dr. John, on asphyxia, ii. 375 ; 

 on the arrangement of the fibres of 

 the heart, 340 ; on the glosso- 

 pharyngeal, 117; i. 145 ; on con- 

 tractility, 341 ; experiments on 

 laryngeal nerves, ii. 122; on the 

 influence of the nerves in hunger, 

 159 ; on loss of nutrition in para- 

 lysed muscles, i. 341 ; on the sym- 

 pathetic, ii. 146 



Remak on the ganglia and nerves of 

 the heart, ii. 139, 342 ; on the de- 

 velopment of the liver, 600 



Rennet, ii. 203 



Reproduction, i. 11 ; ii.524 



Reptiles, air-cells of, ii. 396; blood 

 corpuscles of, 299 ; circulation in, 

 385 ; digestive organs of, 150 ; heart 

 of, 332; intestinal canal in, 218; 

 generative organs of, 535 ; organ of 

 hearing, 65 ; spermatozoa of, 547 



Resilience of lungs, ii. 401 



Respiration, conditions of, ii. 385 ; 

 partly a physical and partly a che- 

 mical process, 415 ; influence of, 

 upon the circulation, 362 ; move- 

 ments of, 396 j objects of, 416 ; 

 theory of, 414 ; connection of func- 

 tion of liver with, 258 ; effects of 



