936 



GENERAL INDEX 



Bacterial action in intestinal canal, 495 



Bacteriolysins, 70 



Bacterium urea?, 782 



Balsam copaiba, elimination in urine, 744 



Bang's method of estimating sugar, 764 



Barium, 22 



Basal requirements in metabolism, 841, 



864 



Basedow's disease, 355 

 Baumann's test for dextrose, 209 

 Beer vinegar bacteria, enzymes of, 10 

 Beeswax, 232 



Be"la v. Bitto's reaction for acetone, 776 

 Bence- Jones protein, 749 

 Benzaldehyde, oxidation to benzoic acid, 



6 

 Benzene, behavior in animal body, 736- 



737 



Benzidine blood test, 753 

 Benzoylation of carbohydrates, 208-209, 



711, 762 



Benzoylchloride test for dextrose, 208 

 Benzoyl cystine, 148 

 Betaine, 239, 550 

 Bezoar stone, oriental, 404, 501 

 Bial's reagent for pentoses in urine, 203, 



770 



Bifurcated air, 812 

 Bile acid test, Pettenkofer's, 396 

 Bile acids, 395-405 



absorption, 394, 517 



detection in animal fluids , 405, 



755 



in blood, 260, 316 

 in urine, 517, 755 

 place of formation, 416 

 preventative of putrefaction in 



intestines, 495 

 Bile, 392-419 



action on proteins, 490 



as activator of steapsinogen, 489 



as preventative of peptic zymolysis, 



489 

 characteristics and constituents of, 



394,395,411 



chemical formation of, 415 

 concretions, 405, 419 

 crystallized Plattner's, 396 

 decomposition in intestine, 493, 494 

 diastatic action, 488 

 effect of exclusion from intestines, 



394, 515 



effect on protein digestion, 447 

 Hiifner's, 398 



in stomach contents, 489, 490 

 its formation, 392 

 occurrence in urine, 517, 755, 756, 



757 



on absorption of fats, 489, 495, 515 

 Pettenkofer's test for, 396 

 preventative of putrefaction in in- 

 testines, 495 

 properties in disease, 415 

 quantitative composition of, 412, 413 

 solvent action on fatty acids, 512. 



Bile mucus, 394, 415 



Bile pigments, 395, 405-412 



reactions of, 407, 408, 756, 



757 



passage into urine, 756 

 Gmelin's test for, 407 

 Bile salts, 395 

 Biliary fistula, 392, 496 

 Bilicyanin, 405, 408, 410 

 Bilifulvin, 405 

 Bilifuscin, 405, 410 

 Bilihumin, 405, 410 

 Biliphsein, 405 

 Biliprasin, 405, 410 

 Bilipurpurin, 410 

 Bilirubin, 405-409 



Ehrlich's test for, 407 

 Hedenin's test for, 411 

 Huppert's test for, 407 

 occurrence in serum, 260 

 putrefaction of, 494 

 relation to blood-pigments, 288, 



290, 405, 417, 418 

 relation to hsematoiind, 290, 



406, 416-418 

 transformation into urobilin, 



494 



Biliverdin, 405, 407, 409, 604 

 in excrements, 499 

 in feces, 499 

 Biogen molecule, 4 

 Biological protein reactions, 259, 502 

 Bismuth, passage into milk, 637 

 Bitter substances, effect upon secretion, 



438, 458 

 Biuret, 99, 653 

 Biuret base, 85 



reaction, 653 

 test for proteids, 99 

 Blister-fluid and its constituents, 342 

 Blood, 242-326 



after partaking food, 321, 507 

 analyses, quantitative, 312-318 

 arterial and venous, 269, 318, 801- 



802 



asphyxiation, 269, 803 

 behavior in starvation, 262, 320, 



324, 840 



buffy^coat of, 299 

 casts, 752 

 clot, 244, 246 



composition under various con- 

 ditions, 318-324 

 defibrinated, 244 

 detection of, 290 

 enzymes and antienzymes, 247, 



248, 249, 252, 259 

 general behavior, 242, 296-299 

 in gastric contents, 449 

 in invertebrates, 248, 292, 307 

 in urine, 752-754 

 quantity of in body, 324 

 Blood corpuscles, 264-268, 292-296 

 changes in volume, 32 

 composition of, 229,293 



