GENERAL INDEX 



709 



Barral (1819-1884), experiments of, on 

 metabolism of human beings, iii, 

 38. 



Barsickow's group of muscular dystro- 

 phies, ii, 906. 



Basal metabolic rate, definition of, i, 

 484. 



determination of, Boothby and San- 

 diford, iii, 611. 



Basal metabolism, iii, 607. 



comparison of, per kgm. and per sq. 

 meter, of surface, table, iii, 610. 



formula? for predicting in healthy 



adults, iv, 32. 

 in anemia, iii, 822 ; iv, 567. 



in children, iv, 32. 



in fever, and Yan't Hoff's law, iv, 

 121. 



influence on, of age, iii, 612. 



of physical characteristics, iii, 



608. 



of sex, iii, 614. 



in leukemia, iv, 567. 



in pneumonia, lobar, iv, 124. 



in shock, iv, 257. 



meaning of term, iv, 31. 



of blood transfusion, iii, 828. 



of children, at puberty, iii, 654. 



up to puberty, iii, 649. 



awake and sleeping, table, iii, 



658. 



influence on, of muscular ac- 

 tivity, iii, 654. 



of sex, iii, 652. 



of fat and thin boys, table, 



iii, 658. 



of infants, from two weeks to one 

 year of age, iii, 642. 



influence on, of age, iii, 646. 



new-born, iii, 632. 



influence on, of crying, iii, 637. 



of food and external tem- 

 perature, iii, 638. 



of sex, iii, 635. 



of radiation, iii, 883. 



determinations in thyroid disorders, 

 principles of, i, 484. 



See also Metabolism, basal. 

 Basedow-iodin, i, 301. 



Basedow's disease, and iodin poisoning, 

 i, 301. 



See also Exophthalmic Goiter. 



treatment of, by rontgen rays, iii, 

 887. 



Baths, cold, and cold douches, iii, 863. 



effects of, iii, 856.^ 



extra energy, iii, 858. 



fever reduction, iii, 856. 



Baths, cold, effects of, on heat produc- 

 tion, Ignatowski, iii, 857. 

 -Lusk, iii, 858. 

 -Matthes, iii, 857. 

 -Rubner, iii, 858. 



redistribution of blood, iii, 859. 



refreshing, iii, 850. 



friction in, iii, 863. 



effervescent, iii, 865. 



hot, effects of, on metabolism, iii, 

 860, 861. 



on oxygen consumption, iii. 

 860, 861. 



on pulse and blood pressure, 



iii, 862. 

 on respiratory quotient, iii, 



861. 



on temperature of body, iii, 

 860, 861. 



- with sand, iii, 863. 



influence of mechanical and chemi- 

 cal stimulation accompanying, iii, 

 862. 



in treatment of edema, iv, 194. 



mustard, iii, 863. 



peat and mud, iii, 867. 



radio-active, iii, 867. 



salt, effects of, iii, 863. 



on blood pressure, iii, 865. 



on metabolism, iii, 863, 864. 



sweat secretion, iii, 867. 



Battey, Robert, operation of, in excis- 

 ing normal ovaries for relief of neu- 

 rotic condition (1872), i, 66. 



Baumann, Eugen, discovery of iodin 

 content in thyroid (1895), i, 84. 



discovery of iodothyrin in body, sug- 

 gesting relation of thyroid gland to 

 iodin metabolism, i, 63. 



Bayliss-Starling, doctrine of hormones 

 or chemical messengers, i, 62. 



Beeswax, iii, 185. 



Bence-Jones protein, chemical nature 

 of, iv, 486. 



discovery of, iv, 485. 



digestive products of, iv, 486. 



history of, iv, 485. 



in bfood and lymph, iv, 487. 



in bone, question of, iv, 485. 



introduction to, iv, 485. 



in urine, iv, 486. 



metabolic studies of cases excreting, 

 tables of, Folin and Denis, iv, 490, 

 491. 



-Hopkins and Savory (multiple 

 myeloma case), iv, 492, 493. 



-Hopkins and Savory (three 

 different cases), iv, 494, 495. 



