INDEX. 



695 



Venous Blood, 



-Action of, on Sweat Centre, 551. 



-Occasional brightened colour of, 404, 40G. 



— Meyer's view, 405 S^ note. 



Venous, or Passire Congestion, 439, 453. 



Venous Sinus, 



-Action of Drugs on, 311. 



-EHect on, of 



— Electrical Stimulation, 617. 



{a) in normal condition, 573, 576. 



Maximal, 577. 587-8. 



Minimal, 577, 586-7. 



{h) under the intiuence of Cold, 575, 



589, dmgs. 608-9. 



Maximal, 593. 



Minimal, 591. 



— (c) under the influence of Heat, 



Maximal, 595. 



Minimal, ih. 



{d) under the influence of Strychnia, 



Maximal, 600. 



Minimal, 599. 



-Function ascribed to, 309-10. 



-Stimulation of, in relation to the 



— Refractory period of the Cardiac Cycle, 



574. 

 Venous Sinus of the Frog's Heart, 

 — Function of, in regard to contractions 



thereof, &c., 560, 561. 

 — Stannius's experiment on, described and 



explained. 557 et seq. 

 Venous System, Diktition of, by Shock, 



431-2. 

 Ventricles, Ventricidarj see also Electrical 



Stimulation of the Frog's 



Heart, and Inhibitory 



Influence. 

 -Action of Digitalis on, 315. 

 -Effect on, of 

 — Electrical Stimulation, 



(a) in normal condition?, 573, 576. 



Maximal, 577, 581-4, 



Minimal, 577, 578-81. 



(i) under the influence of Cold, 



Maximal, 590. 



Minimal, 589. 



— (c) under the influence of Heat, 



Maximal, 594. 



Minimal, 593. 



{d) under the influence of Strychnia, 



Maximal, 597-8. 



Minimal, 596. 



-Function ascribed to, 309-10. 

 -Pulsation of, 528-30, 541-2. 

 Ventricle, Auricle, and Venous Sinus, 

 -Movements of, under Artificial Stitnula- 



tion, how studied, .577. 

 — apparatus employed, 577, 578. 

 Ventricles of Morgagni, in relalion to 



Closure of the Glottis. 025-7. 



Ventricular and Auricular Contractions, 

 -effect on of Stimiilation to Ventricle 



Auricle, &c., researches ov, 573. 

 Ventricular bands of the Larynx, 

 -Animals in which absent and present,634-6 

 -function of, in 



—Closure of the Glottis, 391, 642. 

 Veratrine, 

 -Action of, on 

 — Accelerating apparatus of the Heart.. 



314-5. 

 — Inhibitory ganglia of the Heart, 314. 

 — Vagus-roots, 298-9. 

 -beneficial in Exophthalmic Goitre, 424. 

 Vessels, see Blood Vessels. 

 Vibriones, Action of Drugs on, 244. 

 Viper, Poison of, Fontana's experiments 



on, 381, 385-6. 

 Visceral Nerves, effect of Stimulation of, 



on the Pulse, 15. 

 " Vital spirits," 12. 

 Vital and Chemical Energy, 224-5. 

 Vocal cords, see also False do. 

 -true nature of, (Wyllie), 527. 

 -want of, cause of ditiicully in Vomiting. 



641,642. 

 Vocalisation in the Cat tribe, mechanism 



of, 632. 

 Voluntary movements, 

 -Cerebral Centre for, (Ferrier), 14. 

 -Voluntary Nervous Centres, 

 — excitement of, as possible cause oP 



Quickened Breathing, 329. 

 -Vomiting, associated with Cough, Drugs 



affecting, 57. 

 -causes of, 640-2. 

 in different Animals, relation to, of the 



development of the Fals- 



Vocal Cords, ill., 640-2. 

 -effect of, 641. 



-Nerve centre for, location of, 571. 

 Vomiting and Purging, 

 -induced by Casca Bark, 458, 459, 463-5. 



W'SHAPED Easy Chairs, special advan- 

 tages of, 533, 536. 



Walking on the flat or up-hill, in relation to 

 Heart-distent ion, (Ludwig), 17. 



Walshe, Dr., definition bv, of Angina 

 Pectoris, 191. 



Walz, volatile principles obtained by, 

 from Digitalis, 36-7. 



Warm, 



-and Cold Blood, Circulation of, in Inves- 

 tigations, 267. 



-food as an Expectorant, 570. 



-rooms and crowded assemblies, dilata- 

 tion of the Arterioles (and of 

 the surface veins) in, 404, 405. 



