INDEX 



1151 



Blood pressure, arterial, effect of age 



on, 370 



of change of position on, 372 

 of deep breathing on, 371 

 of eating on, 371 

 of labor on, 371 

 of menstruation on, 371 

 of muscular exercise on, 371 

 of pregnancy on, 371 

 of sleep on, 370 

 factors influencing, 370 

 graphic method of recording, 368 

 in animals, 364 

 in various arteries, 364, 366 

 methods of determining, 362 

 recording, Crampton's index of 



conditions in, 372 

 direct method, 362 

 indirect method, 362, 366 

 palpation method, 366 

 variations in, 365 

 causes, 391 

 pulsatory, 377 

 respiratory, 390, 486 

 capillary, 376 

 venous, 373 



indirect method of recording, 374 

 negative, area of, 374 

 variations in, cardiac, 388 

 respiratory, 390 



causes, 391 

 reactions of, 164, 248 

 residual, 229 

 serum, 171, 212 

 sodium chlorid in, 169 

 specific gravity, 162 

 velocity, 402 



determination of, 404 

 chemical method, 397 

 direct method, 394 

 indirect method, 397 

 stream, volume, 394 



measuring of, calorimetric 



method, 397 

 sugar content, 169 



supply, cerebral, regulation of, 443 

 taste, 162 

 temperature, 162 

 total quantity, 226 

 transfusion of, 230 

 urea content, 170 

 viscosity of, 166 

 whole, composition, 167 

 Blood-vessels, elasticity of, 358 

 innervation of, 411 

 nervous regulation of, 411 

 Blue-blindness, 888 

 Bodies, opaque, 795 

 purin, 1051 

 tigroid, 563, 564 

 translucent, 795 



Body cavities, absorption from, 1033 

 ciliary, 819 



different regions, temperature of, 

 1094 



Body fat, source of, 1044 

 history of foodstuffs in, 1037 

 metabolic requirements, 1052 

 proteins, source of, 1048 

 sugar supply of, regulation, 1042 

 temperature, 1093 



effect of baths on, 1098 

 of clothes on, 1101 

 of nervous depressants on, 1106 

 of varnishing skin on, 1105 

 factors varying, 1095 

 in various regions, 1094 

 regulation of, 1097 

 rise of, after death, 1105 

 voluntary factors controlling, 1101 

 Body-sense area, 681 

 localization, 681 

 Bohr's aerotonometer, 491 

 Bolometer, resistance, 1099 

 Bolus, food, 1001 

 Bone-marrow, myeloplaxes, 207 

 Bones, cranial, conduction of sound 



waves by, 779 

 ear, 764, 766 



movements, 767 



Bernstein's chemical method of meas- 

 uring volume of blood stream, 401 

 Botulism, 1035 

 Boyle's law, 1025 

 Brain, growth, 717 



human, convolutions of, 667 



weight of, 666, 718 

 Brain-sand, 981 



Breasts. See Mammary glands. 

 Breathing, deep, effect on arterial blood 



pressure, 371 



Brewster's stereoscope, 876 

 Brightness, 880 

 Brodie recorder, 399 

 Brodie and Russell's method of esti- 

 mating coagulation time of blood, 219 

 Bronchi, 451, 452 

 Bronchial capacity, 481 



murmur, 477 

 Bronchiolar tubules, 451 

 Bronchioles, 451, 452 

 Brownian molecular motion, 37 

 Brown-Sequard's inhibition theory of 



sleep, 723 



Bruit de souffle, 368 

 Buds, lateral, 108 

 Buffy coat, 212 

 Bulb, olfactory, 644 

 Bulbocavernosus muscle, 1127 



reflex, 599 



Bulbospiral fibers of ventricles, 266 

 Bundle, anterior ground, 613 



tectospinal, 616 

 Held's, 616 

 lateral ground, 613 

 Lissauer's, 616 

 Monakow's, 616 

 of Helweg, 616 

 of His, 264 

 septomarginal, 616 



