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INDEX. 



Copulation, sexual excitement of, comparative, 



902 

 Cord, spinal, hemisection of, degeneration of 



nerve-fibres after, 669 

 effect of, 671-673, 676 

 nerve-impulses in the, afferent pathways of, 



675 



plates of the, dorsal and ventral, 645 

 segmentation of the, 645 

 Corpora Arantii of semilunar valves, 404 

 Corpuscles, blood-, average life of, 343 

 composition of, 347-349 

 isotonic relations of, 334, 335 

 number of, variations in, conditions affect- 

 ing the, 344 

 red, 333 



behavior of, 373 

 blood-speed measured by the speed of the, 



375 



color of, 333 

 composition of, 333 

 destruction of, by ingestion, 343 

 evidences of friction of, 373 

 form of the, 330 

 formation of, by the erythroblastic cells 



of red marrow, 343, 344 

 function of, 333 

 haemoglobin of, condition of the, 333 



nature and amount of, 335 

 movement of, observation of, 372 

 number of, 333, 344 

 origin and fate of, 343 

 reproduction of the, 343 

 specific gravity of, 333 

 varieties of, 331 

 colostrum, 203, 204 

 salivary, 161, 221 

 touch-, 836 , 



Corpus luteum, 893 



Cortex (cerebral), afferent impulses of the, com- 

 posite character of, 700 

 pathways through gray matter of the, 702 

 variations in association of, 701 

 area of the, 729 



areas of the, centres and, separateness of, 691 

 latent, 702 



localization of, 682, 683 

 result of stimulation upon, 683 

 mapping of the, 684, 689 

 sensory and motor, 683-687, 693 



determination of, 696 

 size of the, 690 

 subdivisions of, 690 

 association-fibres of, 697 

 centre for color-vision in the, 785 

 fibres of the, increase in the, 729 

 impulses leaving the, course of, 695 

 metabolism of the, in old age, 743 

 movements from the, control of, 694, 695 

 relation of cell-bodies in the, 729, 730 

 visual area of the, subdivision of, 712 

 Corti, cells of, 822 

 organ of, 821 

 rods of, 821-823, 825 

 Coughing, 562 



diagnostic importance of, 563 

 Cowper's glands, 887 

 secretion of, 885 

 "Crazy bone," the, 65 

 Creatin, 278, 993 

 Creatinin, 278, 994 

 Crespl, formula, 280 



Cretinism, sporadic, feeding of thyroids in, ef- 

 fect of, 737 



Criminals, brain-weight of, 722 

 Crying, 562 

 Crypts of Lieberkiihn, 184, 246 



Crystals, Charcot's, 884, 885 



haemoglobin, 337, 338 



Curare experiment on the independent irrita- 

 bility of muscle, 41 

 Cyanamide, 985 

 Cyanate, ammonium, 985 

 Cyanide, methyl, 985 



potassium, 985 

 Cystein, 990 

 Cystin, 990 

 Cytology, 30 

 Cytoplasm, 20, 81 



differentiation of, from protoplasm of the cell- 

 nucleus, 22 



d-FEUCTOSE, 1005 



d-galactose, 1006 

 d-glucose, 1005 

 " Dangerous region," 389 

 Daniell cell, the, 43 

 Deafness, cause of, 696 



Death from extirpation of the thyroids, 208 

 symptoms preceding, 208 



from removal of suprarenal capsules, 40 



of living protoplasm, molecular alteration, 23 



of the tissues, 929 



rise of body-temperature after, causation, 604 



somatic, 929, 930 



Death-processes, effect of, on conduction, 92 

 Deciduse, the, 909-912 

 Decomposition, bacterial, intestinal, 248 

 Decussation of nerve-fibres, 647, 680, 681, 768 

 Defecation, 324 



involuntary factor in, 324 



mechanism of, 324, 325 



voluntary factor in, 324, 325 

 Degeneration, nerve-, Wallerian, 633 



of nerve-fibres, of the central system, 634 

 secondary, 687 



of non-medullated nerve-fibres, 633 



of nucleated portion of nerve-fibres, 635 

 Deglutition, 310 



Kronecker-Meltzer theory of, 313 



nervous control of, 314 



cesophageal, number and time elapsing be- 

 tween, 313, 314 



sound, 312, 313 



stages of, 310, 311 

 Demilunes (cells), 160 

 Dendrons, neuric, 607 

 Depth-perception, 801 

 Deutero-proteoses, 230 

 Deutoplasm, 888, 889 

 Dextrose, 218, 1005 

 Diabetes mellitus, 206, 207, 293 



sugar in the urine in, 268 

 Dialysis defined, 251 

 Diaphragm, movements of the, respiratory, 506 



structure of the, 506, 507 

 Diastase, 218 

 Diastole, auricular, 370, 396 



ventricular, 370, 396, 405 

 Diet, accessory articles of, 296, 298 



composition of healthy, 305 



effect of, on respiratory quotient, 545 



influence of, on body-temperature, 578 



on heat-production, 591 

 Dietetics, object of, 304 



Diets, effect of various, on gastric secretion, 181 

 Digestion, action of steapsin in, physiological 



value of, 245 



of unorganized and organized ferments on, 

 249 



albuminoid, 288 



bile in, physiological importance of, 265, 266 



carbohydrate, 292 



di-saccharides of, 247 



