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GENEEAL INDEX 



Vitamines, chemical nature and physi- 

 cal properties of, iii, 342. 



antineuritic vitamin (water-solu- 

 ble B), iii, 342. 



antiscorbutic (C Factor), iii, 345. 



fat-soluble vitamin (fat-soluble 



A), iii, 345. 



discovery of, iii, 341. 



distribution of, in food, iii, 346. 



fat-soluble (fat-soluble A), iii, 345. 

 distribution of, in food, iii, 346. 



importance given to, iv, 242. 

 in tetany, i, 644. 



in treatment of beriberi, iv, 894. 



metabolic disturbances in infancy 

 and early childhood due to deficiency 

 of, iv, 806. 



metabolism of, iii, 341. 



digestion and absorption, iii, 347. 



end, iii, 350. 



intermediary, and physiological 



action, iii, 347. 

 special features of, iii, 351. 



relation of, to bone metabolism, iv, 

 769. 



role of, in dietetic treatments of 

 certain digestive diseases, iv, 610. 



table of, iii, 352-355. 



therapeutic use of, iv, 242. 

 Voit, Carl, on metabolism, iii, 5, 65. 

 Vomiting, antispastic action of epi- 



nephrin in, i, 139. 

 metabolism in, iv, 614. 



nausea of pregnancy, ovarian ther- 

 apy in, i, 157. 



1 of autonomic origin, i, 332. 



of children, cyclic. See ' Cyclic 



vomiting of children. 

 Von Graef s sign, i, 319. 

 von Haller, Albrecht (1708-1777), on 



respiration, in history of metabolism, 



iii, 11. 

 von Liebig, Justus (1803-1873), iii, 44. 



caloric value of meat, iii, 49. 



classes of foodstuffs according to, iii, 

 50. 



isodynamic equivalents, iii, 49. 

 table of, iii, 50. 



Munich period of, iii, 53. 



on alcohol, comments, iii, 49. 



on energy production, iii, 47. 



on formation of fat, iii, 49. 



on formation of f eces and absorption 

 of bile, iii, 49. 



on metabolism, difficulties of cal- 

 culating, iii, 48. 



on metabolism in fasting, iii, 46. 



on metabolism of a horse, iii, 48. 



von Liebig, Justus,, on muscle power, 

 criticism of Frankland's comparison 

 of with steam engine, iii, 54. 



source of, iii, 53. 



on oxidation of various foods, iii, 49. 



on respiration, iii, 46. 



on sugar, cleavage of, iii, 47. 



oxygen requirement for combustion 

 of foods, iii, 50. 



plagiarism of ideas of, iii, 51, 52. 



ultimate disposal of products of me- 

 tabolism according to, iii, 51. 



Voit's description of services of, iii, 

 46. 



War edema, iii, 415 ; iv, 158. 



War neuroses, attributed to hypo- 



adrenia, ii, 323. 

 Water, and salts, subcutaneous feeding 



of, iii, 816. 



as a dietary constituent, iii, 275. 



drinking with meals, iii, 280. 



influence of diminished water in- 

 take on metabolism, iii, 279. 



influence of increased water in- 



gestion on metabolism, iii, 277. 



on basal metabolism, iii, 279. 



content of, in blood, iii, 311. 



in body, iii, 311. 



in normal thyroid gland, i, 245. 



deficiency of, effect of, on metabo- 

 lism, iii, 717. 



discovery of composition of, by 

 Cavendish, iii, 15. 



- distilled, iii, 292. 



drinking of, with meals, iii, 280, 283, 

 287, 288, 294. 



effect of, on metabolism, iii, 717. 



deficiency of, iii, 717. 



mineral waters, iii, 718. 



experiments of Lavoisier on nature 

 of, iii, 19. 



external use of, for therapeutic 

 measures. See Hydrotherapy. 



ice, iii, 293. 



importance of, to human body, iii, 276. 



influence of, on absorption, iii, 291. 

 on blood pressure and blood vol- 

 ume, iii, 291. 



on gastric digestion, iii, 281. 



on intestinal flora and putrefac- 

 tion, iii, 291. 



on pancreatic digestion, iii, 289. 



on salivary digestion, iii, 281. 



influence of diminished water intake 

 on metabolism, iii, 279. 



influence of increased ingestion of, 

 on basal metabolism, iii, 279. 



