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INDEX. 



Parietal bone, 332, 333. 



Parotid salivary gland, 186. 



Pastry, 189. 



Patella, 332, 333. 



Peaches, 189. 



Peas, green, 189. 



Pepper, 189. 



Pepsin, 173. 



Peptone, 176. 



Periosteum, 19. 



Peritoneum, 161. 



Perspiration, 130 ; amount of, 136. 



Insensible, 135; sensible, 135. 

 Phalanges, 333, 334. 

 Pharynx, 160, 169. 

 Physician's directions, 326. 

 Physiology defined, 3. 

 Pia mater, 235. 

 Pie, 191. 



Pigeon without cerebrum, 241. 

 Pigment cells, 52, 53. 



Of eye, 288. 



Of human skin, 132. 

 Pitch of voice, 312. 

 Pivot joint, 339. 

 Plain muscle fibers, 49, 50, 344. 

 Plants, relation to animals, 205. 

 Plasma, 73. 

 Pleura, 87. 

 Plexus, solar, 66. 

 Plums, 189. 

 Poison ivy, 324. 

 Poisons, 322, 347. 



Irritant, 323 ; neutralizing, 323. 

 Pollen, 121. 

 Pores, sweat, 130. 

 Portal circulation, 177; Vein, 177. 

 Positive after-images, 295. 

 Postcaval vein, 42, 44, 177, 186. 

 Potatoes, 149, 189. 

 Potential energy, in respiration, 93. 

 Poultry, 189. 

 Power, of levers, 16. 

 Precaval vein, 42, 44, 186. 

 Premolars, 164. 

 Preservation of food, 127. 

 Pressure sense, 280. 



Effect on nerves, 37 ; on veins, 58. 

 Prevention of sneezing, 328. 

 Process, articulating, 331 ; lateral, 331. 



Process, odontoid, 335. 



Spinous, 331. 



Processes, of vertebra, 330. 

 Production of heat, 106; of sound, 306. 

 Pronation, 337. 

 Protection of eye, 285. 

 Proteid food, 146. 

 Proteids, 145 ; importance of, 145. 



Vegetable, 147. 



Protoplasm, 4; animal, 202; vegetal, 202. 

 Ptyalin, 168, 176. 

 Puff-balls, 121. 

 Pulmonary artery, 42 ; veins, 42, 43. 



Capillaries, 86. 

 Pulp-cavity, 163, 164. 

 Pulse, 40. 



Punishment, by nature, 227. 

 Pupil, 288, 289. 

 Putrefaction, bacteria of, 127. 

 Pylorus, 175. 



Quality of voice, 312. 



Quantity of blood in organs, 75. 



Rabbit, muscles of leg, 9. 



Nerves of leg, 9. 

 Radiation of heat, 137. 

 Radius, 332, 333. 

 Rainwater, 150. 

 Raspberries, 189. 

 Rate of blood-flow, 59. 



Of heart beat, 39. 



Of respiration, 95. 

 Reaction of blood, 75. 



Time, 262. 



Reading in convalescence, 298 ; heavy 

 books, 296; mornings, 297 ; even- 

 ings, 297 ; outdoors, 296. 

 Receptacle of chyle, 186. 

 Rectum, 188. 



Reference in sensation, 282. 

 Reflex action, 30, 32, 263. 



Essentials of, 32. 



And habit, 267. 



Importance of, 32. 



Of spinal cord of frog, 30. 

 Refracting media of eye, 289. 

 Regulation of blood-flow, 68, 69, 107. 



Of heart beat, 66,67. 



Of lymph-flow, 77. 



