554 



INDEX. 



course of, 144-145; middle coat of, 

 144-145 ; epithelium of, 145 ; smallest, 

 entirely composed of connective tissue 

 and epithelium, 146 ; rhythmical move- 

 ments of, in wings of bats, 148 ; ac- 

 tivity of, chiefly and sometimes wholly 

 due to their elastic tissue, 152 ; vari- 

 cose, how produced, 153 ; introduction 

 of pus into, 217. 



Verjauchung, definition of, 500. 



Vertebrae, caries of. See Spondylar- 

 throcace. 



Vesalius, 28, 339. 



Vessels, development of, in new-forma- 

 tions, 89, cf. 447 ; action of, in what 

 really consists, 101-102 ; transudation 

 from, how perhaps favoured and how 

 impeded, 102 ; of liver, 102-104 ; of 

 brain, 104-105 ; of muscular coat of 

 stomach, 105-106 ; in cartilage of new- 

 born child, 107; of bone, 108-112; 

 not all subject to special nervous in- 

 fluence, 283 ; new formation of, -147 

 (note). 



Vessel-Territories (districts of tissue be- 

 longing to vo-ssels), 114; 146; Ii6; 

 281-282. 



Vienna School, on pyaemia, 223 ; on 

 amyloid degeneration, 409, 410; on 

 inflammation, 428-429 ; on typhous 

 matter, 440 ; on tubercle, 619. 



Villi, Intestinal, 365-369 ; structure of, 



866; absorption of fat bj, 367-368 

 muscular fibres and contractility of 

 367-368 ; retention of fat in, 308-369 ; 

 amyloid degeneration in, 422. 



Villous Tumours. See Papillomata. 



Vital Activity, irritation essential to pro- 

 duction of, 325 ; general forms of 

 (function, nutrition, formation), 326. 



Vitreous body, its relationship to jelly 

 of Wharton (mucous tissue) 129. 



Vogt, C., on fibres of lens, 66. 



Wagner, Rud., on the two sorts of pa- 

 pillae in skin, 276 ; on tactile bodies, 

 277 ; on ramification of nerve-fibres, 

 290. 



Waxy Degeneration. See Amyloid De- 

 generation. 



Weber, E. H., on colourless blood-cor- 

 puscles, 184, 185. 



Wharton, so-called jelly of, 126, 129. 



Willis, Thomas, on submucous layer of 

 intestines, 292. 



Woorara, effects of, in paralyzing nerves. 

 333. 



Yolk, cleavage of, 442. 



Zimmermann, on relation between pus-, 

 and solourless blood-corpuscles, 188. 

 627 ; on development of red blood- 

 corpusciea, 259. 



