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GENERAL INDEX 



Progressive muscular dystrophy, paral- 

 lelism between improvement in 

 strength and rise in blood sugar in, 

 iv, 722. 



Prolamins, iii, 83. 



Prolin, iii, 90, 114. 



Prostate, condition of, after castration, 

 ii, 455. 



in old age, ii, 455. 



in subjects demonstrating com- 

 plete atrophy of the testes, ii, 455. 



relation of testes to, ii, 454. 



removal of, ii, 455. 



Prostate gland, administration of tes- 

 ticular extracts following removal of 

 the testes, effect of, ii, 455. 



as an endocrin organ, anatomical 

 considerations, ii, 525. 



effect of feeding of, on metabolism, 

 iii, 785. 



effect of, on growth and development 

 of tadpoles, ii, 527. 



on higher animals, ii, 529. 



on isolated genito-urinary organs. 



ii, 530. 

 effect of prostatectomy on be- 



havior of albino rats, ii, 532. 

 neuromuscular efficiency of 



rats, ii, 533. 

 internal secretion, evidence of, ii, 



526. 

 introduction to, ii, 525. 



physiological considerations, ii, 

 526. 



action of prostatic extracts on 

 isolated genito-urinary organs, ii, 

 530. 



effect of prostate feeding on 

 growth and development of tadpoles, 

 ii, 527. 



effect of prostate feeding on 

 higher animals, ii, 529. 



evidence of an internal secre- 

 tion, ii, 526. 



summary of, ii, 533. 



thromboplastic properties of. ii. 



530. 

 Prostatectomy, effect of, on behavior 



of albino rats, ii, 532. 

 on neuromuscular efficiency of 



rats, ii, 533. 



Prostatitis, thymus gland in, ii, 414. 

 Protamins, iii, 83. 



amount of, required in diet, iii, 

 392. 



as source of glucose supply, iv, 271. 



Bence- Jones. See Bence- Jones pro- 

 tein. 



Protamins, deficiency of, in metabolic 

 disturbances of infancy and child- 

 hood, iv, 804. 



deficient in diet, interference of, 

 with growth, iv, 246. 



excess of, in diet of infancy and 

 early childhood, iv, 786, 787. 



in cerebrospinal fluid, iii, 471. 



in food supply of diabetes, iv, 283. 



value of, in diet, iii, 408. 

 Protein constituents, of edema fluids, 



iv, 160. 



of lymph, normal, iv, 160. 

 Protein destruction, as cause of uremia, 



iv, 393. 



in nephritis, iv, 337. 



Protein diet, optimum versus mini- 

 mum, question of, iii, 119. 



Protein factor, obtaining of, iii, 116. 



Protein intoxication, iv, 230. 



Protein -liquefy ing enzymes, formation 

 of, iii, 670. 



Protein metabolism, and edema, iv, 166. 



effect on, of acids and alkalies, iii, 

 739. 



of alcohol, iii, 764. 



of anesthetics, general, chloro- 

 form and ether, iii, 760. 



of antipyretics, iii, 769. 



of atropin, pilocarpin, etc., iii, 



774. 



of blood poisons, iii, 744. 



of carbon monoxid, iii, 743. 



of cyanids, iii, 748. 



of epinephrin, iii, 782. 



of hot baths, iii, 861. 



of mercury, iii, 756. 



of opiates, iii, 766. 



of oxygen-lack, iv, 543. 

 of phlorizin, iii, 759. 



of phosphorus, iii, 750. 



of saline cathartics, iii, 718. 



of saline waters, iii, 847. 



of thyroid substances, iii, 783. 



of uranium, iii, 757. 



in anaphylaxis, iv, 209. 



in anemia, iv, 574. 

 hemolytic, iv, 576. 



in leukemia, iv, 578. 



in nephritis, iv, 314. 

 -in tetany, i, 632. 



in typhoid fever, iv, 111. 



in undernutrition, iv, 12. 



of rectal feeding, iii, 810. 

 Protein minimum and optimum, iii, 



401. 



experiments on, of Chittenden, iii, 

 402. 



