INDEX. 



1559 



Arteries, pulse in, 201, 209, 227 



,, changes of calibre in, 306, 622 

 ,, supply of vaso-motor nerves to, 



307, 319 

 ,, effect on blood- pressure of their 



contractility, 320 

 ,, intrinsic tone of muscular wall 



of, 329 



as affected by age, 343, 1549 

 basilar, 627 

 of the brain, 1131 

 bronchial, 534, 617 



of the eye, 1303 



,, helicine, in erectile tissue, 1509 

 hepatic, 707 



radial, 257260 

 renal, 644, 657 

 ,, in amphibia, 666 



,, splenic, 737 



umbilical, 1521 



venous blood in the, 1522 



Arterioles, 193 



Artificial pulse, tracings of, 216, 258 

 Arytenoid cartilages, 1446 

 Ash of muscle, salts in, 102 

 ,, ,, nerves, salts in, 123 

 Asphyxia, phenomena of, 599, 606, 611, 



625 

 , , increased peristaltic action in , 



469 



its effect on the vascular sys- 

 tem, 624 



,, how produced, 599 

 Astigmatism, 1186 

 Ataxy, locomotor, 1103 

 Atrophy, acute, of liver, decrease of urea 



in, 755 

 Atropin, cardiac inhibition counteracted 



by, 300 

 ,, salivary secretion arrested by, 



400, 417 



its action on sweating, 700, 701 

 ,, its effect on the pupil, 1181 

 ,, ,, on accommodation, 1183 



Auditory epithelium, structure, 1346 



hairs, 1346 

 Auerbach, plexus of, 441 

 Aura, forms of, preceding epileptiform 



attacks, 1087, 1093 

 Auricle, histology of, 275 

 Automatism of heart and brain, analogy 



of, 1115 



Automatic action, 183, 920 

 Axis-cylinder of nerve fibre, 115, 116 

 of nerve fibre, impulses 



transmitted by, 118 

 of nerve fibre, disintegration 



of, after severance, 144 

 process, in nerve cells of 

 spinal cord, 177, 178 



Babe, the, composition of as compared 



with adult, 1541 

 ,, digestive processes of, 1543 



Babe, nervous system of the, 1545 

 Bacteria, ingestion of by white corpuscles, 



46 



,, results of their presence in ali- 

 mentary canal, 428, 477 

 Bacterium photometricum, its reaction 



towards light, 1253 

 Bands, bright and dim, in muscle tissue, 



. 29 

 ,, ,, ,, in cardiac tissue, 



275 



Banting, his method of reducing fatness, 



844 



Basis, molecular, of chyle, 500 

 Bat, the, gastric glands of, 412 

 Beats, in musical sounds, 1367 

 Beehive, temperature of, 810 

 Bertini, columns of, 636 

 Bidder's ganglia in heart of frog, 278, 



279 



Bile, characters and composition, 421 

 ,, secretion of, 434, 435 

 ,, action on food, 424 

 ,, ,, on fats, 475 

 ,, antagonistic to peptic action, 424, 



476 



,, storage of in gall-bladder, 435 

 ,, resorption of under pressure, 439 

 ,, osmotic passage of fat facilitated 



by, 517 



manufactured by hepatic cells, 713 

 ,, relation of to formation of urea, 



749 



,, foetal secretion of, 1527 

 Bile-acids, their formation, 747 

 Bile capillaries, 710 



ducts, 708 

 pigments, 38, 423, 744 



salts, 423 



Bilin, its composition, 424 

 Bilirubin, its relations with haBmatin, 



35, 744 



composition of, 423 

 formation of, 746, 748 

 Biliverdin, its composition, 423 

 Birth, changes of the lungs at, 537 



,, ,, of circulation at, 1531 



Bladder, muscles of, 680 

 Blastodermic vesicle, 1520 

 Blind spot of retina, 1248 

 Blindness, total and partial, 1077 

 Blood, the, 1353 



,, an internal medium of inter- 

 changes, 13, 186, 191 

 clotting, 1530 



,, circumstances affecting, 20 

 ,, causes of, 26 

 its relation to vascular walls, 27, 



339 



corpuscles, see Corpuscles, blood- 

 'laky,' how formed, 32, 560 



,, results of injection of, 671 

 chemical composition, 49 51 

 specific gravity, 49 



