460 



INDEX 



Proximate principles, 327 



sources of, 332 

 Pseudoglobulin, '206 

 Pseudopodia, 208 . 

 Ptomaines, 373 

 Ptyalin, 345 



fate of, 373 

 Puberty, 432 

 Pulmonary valve, 234 

 Pulse, anacrotic, 268 



arterial, 262 



capillary, 270 



cause of, 262 



characters of wave, 263 



form of wave, 264, 269 



height of wave, 264 



high tension, 269 



length of ware, 264 



palpation of, 268 



rate of, 268 



rate, 268 



rhythm, 268 



tension, 269 



velocity of wave, 263 



venous (see Venous pulse) 



volume of, 268 

 Pulsus celer, 269 



parvus, 268 



plenus, 268 



tardus, 269 

 Pupil, 119 



contraction of, 125 

 Purin bodies, 391, 416 



bodies, endogenous and exo- 

 genous, 417 

 Purkinje's cells, 175 



images, 129 



Pyloric end of the stomach, 339 

 Pyramidal tracts, 166 

 Pyramids of the medulla, 170 

 Pyrocatechin, 420 



QUADRIUKATES, 417 



RADIATION of heat from skin, 383 

 Radicals, organic, 443, 

 Ranvier, nodes of, 76 

 Reaction, 99 



of degeneration, 48 

 Receptaculum chyli, 380 

 Reception of stimuli, 191 

 Recti muscles (eye), 135 

 Rectum, 341 



Recurrent laryngeal nerve, 254, 325 

 Red marrow of bone, 217, 218 

 Red nuclei, 176, 180 

 Reduced alkaline ha-matin, 213 

 Reflex action, 87, 90 



function of the spinal cord, 158 

 Refraction of light, 122 



Reid on absorption, 379 



Relation of haemoglobin and its 



derivations, 214 

 Remak's ganglion, 252 

 Rennet, 333 

 Rennin, 352 



source of, 353 

 Reproduction, 432 

 Reserve air, 303 

 Residual air, 303 



contraction period of (see Systole) 

 Respiration, 294 et seq. 



effect on air breathed of, 313 



effect on the blood, 314 



at high altitudes, 307, 318 



influence of heart's action on, 310 



internal, 319 



mechanism of, 294 et seq. 



movements in (special), 302 



nervous mechanism of, 306 



physiology of, 296 



rhythm of, 305 

 Respiratory centre, 306 



action of, 306 



effect of absence of oxygen on, 

 307 



effect of accumulation of waste 

 products in the blood, 307 



effect of carbon dioxide on, 307 



effect of temperature of animal 

 on, 310 



modifications in activity of, 307 

 Respiratory interchange, extent of, 

 320 



interchange, factors modifying, 

 320, 321 



quotient, 314 



quotient, effect of diet on, 321 

 Restitorm bodies, 167 

 Rete testis, 433 

 Reticulum, 340. 

 Retina, 121 et seq. 



blood vessels of, 122 



nature of changes in, 130 



stimulation of, 128 



rods and cones of, 121 

 Retractor oculi, 135 

 Rhythmic contraction of the heart, 

 250 



contraction, propagation of, 251 



contraction, starting mechanism 



of, 251 



Rigor mortis, 72 

 Riva Rocci B.P. apparatus, 274 

 Rolandic area, 199, 200 

 Rolando (see Fissure) 

 Roof nucleus of the cerebellum, 175 

 Roots of the spinal nerves, 150 

 Roy's cardiometer, 249 

 Rumen, 340 





