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GENERAL INDEX. 



CONCHIFERA continued. 

 organs of motion, i. 700. 

 skin and its appendages, i. 705. 



1. mantle, i. 705. 



2. siphons, i. 707. 



3. shell, i. 707. 



cardinal edge, i. 708. 

 general structure, i. 707. 

 hinge, i. 707. 

 ligament, i. 7C8. 

 valves, surfaces of the, i. 710. 

 external surface, i. 710. 



1. the hooks, i.710. 



2. the belly of the shell, i. 7 1 1 . 



3. the edges, 1.711. 



4. thelunula, i. 711. 



5. the corselet, i. 711. 

 internal surface, i. 712. 



formation of mother-of-pearl and of 



pearls, i. 712, 713. 

 Concretions, or pseudo-calculi, iv. 8G. See PRODUCTS, 



ADVENTITIOUS.- 

 found in the paunch and reticulum of Ruminantia, 



s. 538. 



polypous, in the heart, ii. 648. 

 of prostate gland, iv. 158. 

 Concussion, depression of the heart's action consequent 



on, i. 723. 



Condillac's dreams, iv. 687. 

 Condiments, employment of, in diet, ii. 15. 

 Condyles of femur, iii. 44. 

 humerus, external, i. 217. 

 internal, i. 217. 



extensorius of humerus, ii. 1GO. 

 of the tibia, ii. 168. 

 Condyloid foramen, i. 732. 

 posterior, i. 732. 

 anterior, i. 732. 

 processes, i.732; ii. 215. 

 Condylopeda, i. 245. 



Conferva fontinalis, arrangement of the sexual reproduc- 

 tive organs of the, s. 220. 



Confervoiil Alga?. See Algce ; REPRODUCTION, VEGETABLE. 

 Conflux of Majendie, anterior, iii. 640. 

 inferior, iii. 640. 

 posterior, iii. 638. 640. 688. 

 superior, iii. 640. 



Congenital deformities. See TEKATOLOGY. 

 Conger, tongue of the, iv. 1146. 

 Congestion of the liver, iii. 183. 



o. general congestion, iii. 184. 

 b. hepatic venous congestion, iii. 184. 

 e. portal venous congestion, iii. 184. 

 of the venous sinuses of the spinal cord, iii. 713. 

 convulsions, iii. 713. 

 spinal apoplexy, iii. 713. 

 Conglobate glands, i. 23. 

 Congregation, instinct of, both in man and in the lower 



animals, iii. 16. 



imperfect societies of insects, iii. 16. 

 for society alone, iii. 16. 

 of males in the pairing season, iii. 16. 

 for emigrating together, iii. 16. 

 for feeding together, iii. 16. 

 for some common work, advantageous to the 



community, iii. 16. 

 occasional association, iii. 17. 

 .of higher animals for various purposes, grega- 

 rious animals, iii. 17. 

 Coni vasculosi of epididymis, iv. 979. 

 Conical appendages to head of Pteropoda, iv. 175. 

 Conium, use of, in cases of muscular disturbance, iii. 



721. H. 



Conjoined tendons, the, i. 6. 

 Conjunctiva (in human anatomy), ii. 173. 176 ; iii. 83. See 



LACHRYMAL ORGANS. 

 structure of, ii. 176. 

 Conjunctivitis, iii. 86. 

 Conochilus, a genus of Rotifera, iv. 402. 

 Conochilus volvox, a species of Rotifera, iv. 401, el seq. 

 Conoid or pyramidal ligament, iii. 104. 

 Consistence, in organised and unorganised bodies, i. 119. 

 Constriction of the alimentary canal, s. 404. 



causes, s. 404, 405. 

 of the aorta, i. 191. 

 Constrictor ani muscle, i, 176. 



isthmi faucium muscle, iii. 952 ; iv. 1133. 



relations and action, iii. 952. 

 pharyngis muscle, iv. 1102. 

 pharyngis muscle, inferior, iii. 102, 940. 

 medius, iii. 946. 

 superior, iii. 946. 

 vaginae muscle, i. 178 ; s. 712. 

 Consumption, tubercular, aphonia a symptom in cases of, iii. 



119. 

 sympathetic ulceration of the trachea and bronchial 



tubes in cases of tubercular, iii. 119. 

 CONTRACTILITY, i. 716. 



1. irritability, i. 717. 



2. vital power orproperty of irritability, i. 719. 



3. conditions accessary to the contractile power, i. 



721. 



CONTRACTILITY continued, 



4. laws regulating the vital powers of contractile 



powers, i. 723. 

 conclusions, i. 724. 

 Contractility of muscle, i. 710 ; iii. 519. 



is it a property inherent in muscular fibre ? doc- 

 trine of the " vis inaita " of Haller, iii. 519. 

 source of contractility, whence derived, iii. 5*0. 

 relation of contractility to the state of nutrition 



of the organ, iii. 520. 

 Dr. John Reid's experiments, iii. 520. 

 evidence furnished by cerebral paralysis, iii. 



521. 



corroborations furnished by the fact .that 

 throughout the animal kingdom the vascular 

 supply is accurately proportioned to the mus- 

 cular irritability, iii. 521. 

 See MUSCULAR MOTION. 

 of cavities of the heart, duration of, after death, ii. C07, 



608. 

 Contraction, or systole, of the auricles and ventricles of the 



heart, ii. 602, 603. See HEAKT, PHYSIOLOGY OF. 

 Conus arteriosus of Woolf, ii. 581, note. 

 Convoluted tube forming the lymphatic gland, iii. 218. See 



LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. 

 Convolutions of the brain, iii. 693. 



functions of the cerebral convolutions, iii. 722 X. 



connexions of the functions of the mind with the 

 functions of the cerebral convolutions, iii. 

 722 X. 

 Dr. Wigan's doctrine of the duality of the mind, iii. 



722 Z. 



sensation, iii. 723 A. 

 volition and attention, iii. 723 A. 

 sleep, iii. 723 B. 

 dreaming, iii. 723 B. 

 coma, iii. 723 B. 

 somnambulism, iii. 723 B. 

 delirium, iii. 723 B. 

 fibres of the centrum ovale, iii. 723 B. 



Convulsions, congestion of the vessels of the brain conse- 

 quent on, iii. 713. 720 F. 



cause of the convulsions of epilepsy, iii. 721 G. 

 of the foetus in utero, ii. 321. 

 Cooking, importance of, indigestion, ii. 12. 



chemical changes induced iu food by the process of 



cooking, s. 390. 

 roasting meat, s. 390. 

 boiling meat, s. 390. 

 salting and smokine: meat, s. 391. 

 Cophias, poison fangs of, iy. 291. 

 Copper, method of determining the presence of, in organic 



substances, iii. 805. 



Copts, physical characters of the, iv. 1357. 

 Cor bovinum, ii. 639. 

 Coraco-acromial ligament, i. 359. 

 Coraco-brachialis muscle, i. 217. 219. 359; ii. 160; iv. 



756. 



Coracoid notch (incisura semilunaris, lunula), ii. 1M>. 

 process, i. 359 : ii. 157 ; iv. GOO. 

 fractures of the, iv. 600. 

 in Carnivora, i. 46G. See CARNIVORA. 

 Coral, red, of commerce, (Corallium rubrum) iv. 31, 



32. 

 Coral reefs, formation of, iv. 33. 



mode in which coral reefs become converted into islands 



and fitted for the abode of man, iv. 33. 

 CorallidcE, or cortical polyps, a family of Polypifera, iv. 19. 



30. 



characters of the family, iv. 19. 

 genera, iv. 19. 



Corallium rubrum, iv. 31. 

 Isis hippuris, iv. 31. 

 ova of, s. [127.] 



Cordiform tendon, ii. 2 ; iv. 324. 

 Corn, considered as an elementary substance, s. ?,93. 

 constituents, s. 393. 

 bread, s. 393. 



Corw-fields, ravages of the wire-worm in thp, ii. 861. 

 Cornea, ii. 175177. 



chemical composition, ii. 177. 

 development, ii. 178. 

 size and shape, ii. 176; iv. 1440. 

 structure, ii. 175. 



wounds and diseases of the cornea, ii. 177. 

 conjunctiva! covering of the, iii. 87. 

 opaca, ii. 175. 177. 

 transparens, ii. 175, 170. 

 conical, symptoms of, iv. 1404. 

 Cornicula laryngis, or tubercles of Santorini, iii. 101 



102. 



Corns, hard, causes of, ii. 353. 

 solt, causes of, ii. 353. 

 on roots of fingers, ii. 524. 

 Cornu Ammonis, iii. 675. 

 Cornua of hyoid bone, greater, iv. 1124. 



lesser, iv. 1124. 



of lateral ventricles, iii. 674. See Ventricle. 

 of thyroid cartilage, iii. 102. 

 Corona ciliaris of Camper and Zinn, ii. 193. 



of glans penis, iii. 914. 

 Cornnte, i. 728. See Frontal bone. 



