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INDEX. 



Blood, menstrual, character of the, 896 

 movement of the, in capillaries, minute arte- 

 ries and veins, 371-377 

 of pregnancy, 916 



of various animals, nutritive value of, 482 

 of the mammalian heart, 482 

 peptones and proteoses in, 256 

 properties of the, general, 331-347 

 reaction of, 332 



regeneration of, after hemorrhage, 361 

 solutions of, isotonic, 334 

 specific gravity of, 332 

 spectra of, absorption, 338 

 structure of, histological, 331 

 sugar of the, form of, 257 

 temperature of the, 577 

 time spent by the, in a systemic capillary, 395 

 transfusion of, 362 

 urea present in the, amount of, 275 

 venous, proportions of O and COj in, 519, 520 



speed and pressure of, compared, 393, 394 

 Blood and the alveoli, interchange of C and C02 



between the, 522-527 



and the tissues, interchange of O and COa be- 

 tween the, 527 



Blood-circulation. See Circulation. 

 Blood-clotting. See Coagulation. 

 Blood-corpuscles. See Corpuscles. 

 Blood-flow, capillary, 372 

 causes of the, 369 

 course of the, 368 

 in the small vessels, direct observation of, 



372 



summary of, 377 

 through the kidneys, 195 



the lungs, 395 



venous, subsidiary forces assisting the, 387 

 Blood-leucocytes. See Leucocytes. 

 Blood-passages in the frog's heart, 471 

 Blood-path, circle of the, 368 



pulmonary, 370 

 Blood-plasma. See Plasma. 

 Blood-plates, 347 

 Blood-pressure, aortic, 377-383 



arterial, capillary, and venous, 377-383 



causes of, 383-389 

 causation of, 383, 385 



arterial and venous, manometric and 

 graphic, method of studying, 377-380 

 manometric trace of, 381, 382 

 capillary, 376, 438 



why pulseless ? 387 

 cardiac, effect of stimulation of cardiac 



nerve-fibres on the, 463-467 

 changes in, from stimulation of the brain, 



due to reflex action, 494 

 effects of respiratory movements on, 555 

 intracranial, 735, 736 

 symptoms of bleeding in relation to, 383 

 the mean arterial, capillary, and venous, 382 

 venous, causation of, 386 

 Blood-pressures within the ventricles, 416 

 Blood-proteids of lymph, 363 

 Blood-serum, 331-334 



action of, bactericidal, 334 



globulicidal, 334 

 Blood -speed and pressure compared, 393 



in arteries, capillaries, and veins, 390-395 



in large vessels, measurement of, 390, 392 



in the arteries, 393 



in the capillaries, 393 



in the minute vessels, 375 



in the veins, 393 



varies inversely as the collective sectional 



area of its path, 394 



Blood-stream, evidence of the more rapid move- 

 ment of the central part of, 373 



Blood -stream, pulmonary, 395, 396 

 Blood-supply and heart-beat, relation of, in the 



coronary circulation, 477 

 effect of the, on nerve and muscle, 73 

 importance of the, upon the respirations, 566 

 influence of the, on body-temperature, 579 

 of the brain, 723, 734-736 

 Blood-vessels, chorionic, 912 



clotting within the, production of, 358 

 condition of the, due to asphyxiation, 553 

 contractility of the, early experimental 



demonstrations of, 482-486 

 innervation of the, 482-501 

 large, speed of the blood in, 390-392 

 minute, speed of the blood in, 375 

 placental, 912 

 retinal, 767 



small, flow in the, direct observation of. 372 

 why blood does not clot within the. 359. 



See Arteries, Capillaries, Veins. 

 Body, chemistry of the, 943-1021 

 equilibrium, dynamic, 833, 843, 845-849 



static, 849 



locomotion of the, 860 

 "Body of Aranzi," 404 

 Body-activity, influence of, on heat-production, 



592 



Body-fat, origin of, theories of, 290, 291 

 Body-heat. See Heat, also Temperature. 

 chemic production of, 302 

 specific, 948 



Body -growth before and after birth, 924, 925 

 diminution of, progressive, 926, 928 

 influence of race upon, 926 

 rapidity of, relative, in both sexes, 926 

 Body-metabolism, 282-302 

 Body-surface in relation to heat-dissipation, 



594, 595 



Body-temperature. See Temperature. 

 Body-weight in death, 930 



influence of, on heat-production, 590 



loss of, from starvation, 301 



relations between weight of central nervous 



system and the, 719 

 Bone a mineral, 969 

 Bones, action of muscles upon the, method of, 



857 



in human skeleton, number of, 855 

 muscles of, contraction and reaction of, 107 

 of the skull, conduction of sound-sensation 



through the, 815 

 union of. See Articulations. 

 " Border cells," 178 



Brain, atrophy of the, in old age, 720, 726 

 blood-supply of the, 734 

 frontal lobes of, effect of removal of, 703 

 growth of the, 724 

 hemispheres of the, effect of injury to the 



two, 699, 700 



nervous pathways within the, 696-702 

 nerves of the, vaso-motor, 494 

 relations of the, to vaso-motor centres, 493 

 removal of the, in animals, result of, 705-715 

 sensory and motor regions of the, 684-687 

 specific gravity of the, 716 

 " speech-centre " of the, 698, 702 

 water in the, percentage of, 716 

 weighing the, method of, 718, 719 

 white matter of, composition of, 150. See also 



Encephalon. 



Brain-weight among the insane, 722 

 at birth, 726 

 comparative, 718, 719 



of eminent men, Manouvrier's table, 721 

 decrease in, in old age, 742, 928 

 differences in, conditions determining, 718 

 increase in, with age, 724 



