INDEX 



ABDOMINAL aorta, compression of, 107 

 Abduction of vocal cords, 143 

 Aberration, achromatic, 189 



spheric, 190 

 Absorption, 217 



and elimination, rapidity of, 219 

 Acceleration of heart, 88 

 Accommodation reflex, 184 

 Achromatic aberration, 189 

 Action current of frog's heart, 60 

 of muscle, 59 

 of nerve, 60 



of cocain, 167 



of glucose, 221 



of secretin, 214 



of sodium chlorid, 221 

 Acuity of dynamic sense, 180 



of temperature sense, 170 

 Adaptation to touch sensations, 168 

 Adduction of vocal cords, 143 

 Adrenal extract, influence of, on into .- 



tine, 219 

 Adrenalin, effect of, on blood-pressure, 



110 



Afferent impulses, summation of, 157 

 After-images, negative, 201 



of temperature, 169 



positive, 200 



Air, entrance of, into circulation, 115 

 All-or-none law, 82 

 Ameboid motion, 21 



Ametropic artificial eye, ophthalmoscopic 

 examination of, by direct method. 

 195 



eye, 188, 189 



Amyl nitrite, effect of, on blood-pres- 

 sure, 110 



Anelectrotonus, 63 

 Anodic excitation of nerve, 64 

 Aorta, abdominal, compression of, 107 

 Aortic insufficiency, schema of, 102 



stenosis, schema of, 102 

 Apex-beat of heart, 95 

 Apothecaries' weight, 229 

 exact equivalent, 230 

 Aristotle's experiment, 167 

 Arterial blood, 68 



blood-pressure, direct method of de- 

 termining, 103 



pulse, character and velocity, 129 

 heart action and relation between, 129 



Artificial eye, ametropic, ophthalmo- 

 scopic examination of, by direct 

 method, 195 



emmetropic, ophthalmoscopic ex- 

 amination of, by direct method, 

 194 

 opthalmoscopic examination of, by 



indirect method, 196 

 respiration, 140 

 Asphyctic blood, 68 

 Asphyxia, 135 



Associated movements of eyes, 200 

 Astigmatism, 189 

 detection of, 194 

 measurement of, 194 

 Atmospheric pressure, decreased, effect on 



lungs, 148 



Atropin, action on heart, 87 

 Auditory fatigue, 174 

 Auscultation, 139 



Axes, visual, convergence of, influence of, 

 203 



BABINSKI phenomenon, eliciting, 160 

 Bile, secretion of, 215 

 Binocular fusion pf dissimilar images, 203 

 vision, relation of, to judgments of 



direction, 203 

 of distance, 203 

 of solidity, 203 

 Bladder, innervation of, 225 

 Blind spot, 199 



contours of, 199 

 Blood, arterial, 68 

 asphyctic, 68 



cells, red, human, counting of, 73 

 chemical tests for, 78 

 coagulation of, 69 

 corpuscles, red, enumeration, 70 



simultaneous count, 73 

 relative amounts, 70 

 white, enumeration of, 71 

 simultaneous count, 73 

 crystals, 78 

 experiments on, preparation of animal 



for, 67 

 flow through lungs, effect of variations 



in intrathoracic pressure on, 147 

 velocity of, differences in, schema 

 illustrating, 103 



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