INDEX 



825 



Facilitation, 474, 489 

 Facultative anaerobes, 610 

 False equilibrium, 309, 313 

 Faraday constant, 191 



portrait of, 171 



Faraday's views on catalysis, 306 



Faraday-Tyndall phenomenon, 74, 79 



Fat as source of energy for muscle, 279, 449 



digestion of, 375 



formation of, from carbohydrate, 278 



metabolism of, 277 



not formed from protein, 279 



value of, as food, 253 



Fatigue distinguished from inhibition, 501 



in muscle, 451 



in nerve, 390 



cells, 471 



centres, seat of, 423, 451, 475, 491 



in stellar ganglion, 491 



of electrical organ, 659 



of inhibition, 422, 423 



part played by, in reflexes, 501 



products, washing away of, 451 

 Fermentation, energetics of, 610 



heat production in, 594 

 Ferments, 307 



Ferric hydroxide, colloidal, 64 

 Fertilisation, increased permeability in, 141 



of ovum, 291 

 Fever, 271, 288, 289, 458 



Fibrin, action of pepsin on, as acid effect, 398 

 Figure of merit of galvanometers, 639 

 Filtration theory of glomerular function, 336 

 Final common path, 471, 475, 477 

 always open, 489 



equilibrium, enzyme no member of, 309 

 Fischer, Emil, portrait of, 261 



Fish, osmotic pressure of blood of, 165 



Fistulae, method of, 371 



" Fitness" of carbon dioxide, 201 



of water, 228 

 Fixation of cells, 12, 16 



of dyes by heat, 67 

 Fixed air, Black on, 606 



cells, conclusions drawn from, 16 

 Flavones, 597 



Flow through tubes, 241 

 Flowers, colours of, 597 

 Fluorescence, 556 



in* cells, 9 

 Foam, 77 

 Fog, 77 



Food, changes of, in digestion, 373 



molecules and biogens, 18 



necessary constituents of, 247 



special requirements as cell components, 



255, 256 

 as constituents of hormones, 256 



use of, 246 



Food-stuffs, chemical complexity of neces- 

 sary, 248 



Forced breathing, 631 



Form of energy in muscle, 443 



Formaldehyde, action of, on cell membrane, 

 136 



formed by light in presence of iron, 564 



in photo-synthesis, 564 



polymerised by light, 566 

 Free energy, 27 



nerve endings, stimulation of, 501, 510 

 Freezing point, determination of, 155 

 Frey's hairs, 514 



Friction, 304 



of solute, 157 

 Frictional electricity, 90 

 Frog, renal mechanism of, 356 

 Fructose from formaldehyde, 564 

 Fulgides of Stobbe, 568 

 Function, mathematical, 36 



of nerve fibre determined by ending, 



426 

 Functional activity and electric charge, 127 



changes in permeability, 124 

 Fungi, food requirements of, 248 

 Fusion of pseudopodia, 22, 129 



Gall, work of, on the brain, 480 

 Galvanometer of Moll, 638 



string, 638, 639, 640 

 Galvanometers, 637 

 Gametes, 291, 293 



Gas bladder of fishes, 361 



ions, 31, 170, 581 



law, 32 



Gaskell, portrait of, 678 

 GaskelFs heart clamp, 679 

 Gastric juice, chemical mechanism of secre- 

 tion, 372 



secretin, 710 



Gay Lussac's law, 147 



Gel, 78 



Gels, structure of, 14, 98 



General physiology denned, vii 



meaning of, 291 

 Geotropism, 529 



Giant molecules, 17, 607, 725 



Gibbs' principle, 55 



Gizzard, 373 



Glands, modes of stimulation of, 343 



Glomerulus of the kidney, 336 



Glucose consumption by glands, 342, 343 



by tissues, 273 



diagram of metabolism of, 273 



in corpuscles and plasma, 122, 126 



used by muscle, 449 

 Glucuronic acid, 277 



