960 



GENERAL INDEX 



Serine, 84, 143 



amounts in proteins, 105, 114, 124, 



144 



Serine anhydride, 143 

 Serolin, 256 

 Seromucoid, 252, 256 

 Serosamucin, 336 

 Scrum. See Blood serum. 

 Serum casein, 250. See Serum globulin. 

 Sex, influence of, on metabolism, 867 

 Sham feeding, 437, 442, 872 

 Shark, bile, 395, 411, 645 

 urea, 317, 41 1,645 

 Shell membrane, of hen's egg, 112-114, 



604 



Side-chain theory, 71 

 Silk gelatin, 123, 124 

 Sinistrin, animal, 170 

 Skatol, 81, 155, 156, 492, 695. 696 



behavior, in animal oody, 492, 695 

 -chromogen, pigments of, 695 

 Skatosine, 165 

 Skatoxyl, 155, 687, 695 

 Skeletins, 121 



composition of, 122 

 Skeleton, 529, 840, 842 

 Skin, 788-794 



and its secretions, 789 

 coloring matters of, 792 

 exchange of gas through, 800 

 excretion through, 794-799 

 Sleep, influence on metabolism, 869 

 Smegma prseputii, 797 

 Snake poison, effect upon blood, 248, 300, 



311 

 Soaps, importance of, for secretions, 457, 



476 

 importance of, for emulsification 



of fats, 489 

 importance of, for their absorption, 



Sodium alcoholate, as a saponification 



agent, 227, 230 

 chloride, physiological solution, 



263, 265 



behavior with food poor 



in potassium, 452-843 



behavior with food rich 



in potassium, 843-844 



effect upon intestinal 



secretions, 466 

 effect upon peptic diges- 

 tion, 447 

 effect upon trypsin diges- 



483 



elimination in perspira- 

 tion, 799 

 elimination in urine, 719, 



720 



influence upon gastric 

 juice secretion, 438, 452 

 quantitative determina- 

 tions, 720, 722 



^compounds, elimination through 

 urine, 727 



Sodium compounds, division among form 

 elements and fluids 

 22, 23 



See also various 



juices and tissues. 



salicylate, as a cholagogue, 394, 



395 



Solanin, 266 



Soldiers, diets of, 874, 879 

 Sorbin, 202 

 Sorbinose, 199, 205, 212 



d-, 212 

 Sorbite, 194 

 Specific dynamic action, 859, 871-872 



rotation, 195 

 Specificity, of enzyme action, 66, 



, of anti bodies, 69 



Speck's method of determining respira- 

 tory gas exchange, 820 

 Spectrophotometric, method, 291, 292 

 Spermaceti, 231 



oil, 231, 232 

 Spermatin, 592 

 Spermatocele fluid and their constituents, 



340 



Spermatozoa, 23, 33, 591, 608 

 of bull, 591 

 Spermine, 590 



crystals, 590 



Sperm reaction, Florence's, 590 . 

 Sphingomyelin, 578 

 Sphingosin, 580 

 Sphygmogenin, 357 

 Spider silk, 123 

 Spiegler's test for proteid, 746 

 Spinal marrow, 583 

 Spirographin, 167 

 Spleen, 350-354 



blood of, 319 



relation to digestion, 353, 473 



relation to formation of uric acid, 



353, 354, 670 



relation to metabolism of iron, 353 

 Spongin, 91, 121, 122 

 Sponginoses, 122 

 Spongosterin, 424 

 Sputum, 821 

 Stachyose, 220 

 Starch, 220-222 



absorption, 509-511 

 calorific value, 429 

 cellulose, 220 

 granulose, 220 

 gum, 222 



hydrolysis, 221, 222, 432, 478 

 Starvation, effect on blood, 262, 321, 325 

 effect on urine, 494, 645, 660, 

 665, 684, 692, 724, 727, 772 

 effect on metabolism, 836-841 

 Steapsin, 478 



stomach, 451 



Steapsinogen, activation of, by bile, 489 

 Stearin, 227 



absorption, 514 

 Stearyl-lecithin, 234 



