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GENERAL INDEX. 



VARIETIES OF MANKIND, general survey continued. 



anatomical differences by which the several 

 races of mankind are distinguished 

 from each other, iv. 1319. 



1. conformation ol the cranium, iv. 1319. 



prognathous type, iv. 1321. 

 pyramidal type, iv. 1322. 

 oval or elliptical type iv 1323. 



2. conformation of the pelvis, iv. 1331. 



3. conformation of the other parts of the 



skeleton, iv. 1331. 



4. colour of the skin, iv. 1333. 



constancy of the relation between 

 climate and complexion, iv. 1335. 



historical evidence of an actual 

 change of complexion in tribes or 

 races that are known to have 

 migrated from one locality to 

 another, or to have changed their 

 mode of life, iv. 1336. 



5. colour, texture, and mode of growth of 



the hair, iv. 1337. 

 physiological conformity or diversity of the 



several races, iv. 1339. 

 average duration of life, iv. 1339. 

 epoch of the first menstruation, iv. 1339. 

 frequency of the catamenial flux and 

 the epoch of life to which it ex- 

 tends, iv. 1341. 



duration of pregnancy, iv. 1341. 

 fertility of hybrid races, ir. 1341. 

 psychical comparison of the various races of 



mankind, iv. 1342. 

 philological evidence of a common origin, in 



language, iv. 1345. 

 aptotic type, iv. 1346. 

 agglutinate type, iv. 1346. 

 amalgamate type, iv. 1346. 

 anaptotic type, iv. 1346. 

 principal groups of various languages, iv. 



1347. 



IV. general survey of the principal families of man- 

 kind, iv. 1348. 

 European nations, iv. 1348. 

 Asiatic nations, iv. 1348. 

 African nations, iv. 1352. 

 American nations, iv. 1358. 

 Oceanic nations, iv. 1361. 

 general recapitulation, iv. 1363. 

 addendum on the causes of the tendency to extinction 



in the races of aborigines, iv. 1365. 

 Varir, aneurismal, i. 241. See ANEURISM; ARTERY, 



Pathological conditions of. 

 Varus, ii. 348. 

 Vas deferens artery, iv 983. 



deficiencies and imperfections of the, iv. 987. 

 ejaculatorium, iv. 147. 

 Vasa brevia, i. 195; iv. 1414; s. 327. 

 efferentia, iii. 208. 231. 



of epididymis, iv. 979. 



deferentia, i. 380 ; ii. 457, 458 ; iii. 922 ; iv. 1431. 

 inferentia or afferentia, iii. 207. 231. 

 pampiniformia, iv. 982. 

 vasorum, i. 223 ; iii. 233 ; iv. 1381. 

 Vascular branch of nervus vagus, iii. 887. 

 raini carotici, iii. 887. 



ramus ad divisionem arterize carotidis, iii. 887. 

 rami vasculares posteriores et interni, iii. 887, 

 anteriores et interni, iii. 887. 

 Vascular system. See CIRCULATION. 

 Vasculum aberrans, iv. 980. 

 V asco-cellular structure of penis, iii. 913. 

 Vastus externus muscle, iii. 44. 

 interims, iii. 44. 



nerves for, iv. 763. 



Valeria Indica, tallow- like fat of the, i. 58. 

 Vaucheriacece, mode of reproduction of the, s. 216. 

 Vault. See Fornix. 



of the flancs of Crustacea, i. 757. 

 Vegetable fibrin, iv. 169. 

 casein, iv. 169. 

 albumen, iv. 1<!9. 

 food, s. 3H9. 393. See Food. 

 nuclei of intestinal calculi, iv. 84. 

 parasites, iv. 143. 



Vegetables, compared with animals, i. 124. 

 cellular tissue, i. 125. 

 chemical composition, i. 124. 

 immediate principles, i. 125. 

 acids, i. 125. 

 oxides, i. 125. 

 circulation, i. 133. 

 digestion, i. 132. 

 electricity, i. 137. 

 forms, i. 124. 

 heat, i. 136. 



hibernation of plants, iii. 157. 



injurious effects of forcing a new crop in an un- 

 naturally short interval, iii. 157. 

 light, i. 136. 

 motion, i. 139. 

 nutrition, i. 130. 



Vegetables continued. 



organic composition, i. 135. 



reproduction, i. 129. See REPRODUCTION, VEGE- 

 TABLE. 



respiration, i. 132 ; iv. 328. 

 secretion, i. 135. 

 sensation, i. 139. 

 size, i. 124. 



symmetry of plants, iv. 852. 

 tubular or vascular tissue, i. 125. 

 vital manifestations, i. 127. 

 ultimate elements of vegetables, ii. 12. 

 substances used as food, ii. 13. 



on the relation which exists between the animal and 

 vegetable kingdoms, as regards the function of re- 

 production, s. 256. 

 VEIN, iv. 1367. 



literary history, iv. 1367. 

 I. structure, iv. 1368. 

 epithelium, iv. 1369. 

 fenestrated membrane, iv. 1369. 

 internal tunic of longitudinal fibres, iv. 1371. 

 middle coat of intermixed circular and longitudinal 



fibres, iv. 1372. 



external coat of longitudinal fibres, iv. 1373. 

 minute veins, iv. 1373. 



regions in which the veins undergo striking modi- 

 fications in structure, iv. 1375. 

 veins at their junction with the heart, iv. 



1375. 



cavae, passing through the diaphragm and pe- 

 ricardium, iv. 1376. 

 cerebral sinuses, iv. 1376. 

 umbilical vein, iv. 1376. 

 venous valves, iv. 1377. 



structure of valves, iv. 1379. 

 fibrous lamina, iv. 1379. 

 sinuses in the walls of the veins, iv. 1380. 

 office of valves, iv. 1381. 

 vasa vasorum, iv. 1381. 

 nerves of veins, iv. 1382. 

 comparative structure, iv. 1382. 



caudal venous heart of eel, iv. 1333. 

 II. physical and vital properties, iv. 1384. 

 vital contractility, iv. 1384. 

 venous tonicity, iv. 1385. 



III. general remarks upon veins: origin, course, anasto- 



moses, plexuses, &c., iv. 1385. 

 origin of veins, iv. 1386. 

 course, anastomoses, plexuses, &c., iv. 1386. 



IV. function of veins, iv. 1389. 



circulation in the veins, iv. 13*9. 

 as diverticula and reservoirs of blood, iv. 1389. 

 venous absorption, i. 24; iv. 1390. 

 V. development of veins, iv. 1390. 



as capillaries, iv. 1390. 

 morbid anatomy of veins, iv. 1391. 

 phlebitis, iv. 1392. 



plastic phlebitis, iv. 1392. 

 suppurative phlebitis, iv. 1394. 

 obliteration of veins, iv. 1395. 

 healing of wounds in veins, iv. 13P5. 

 effects of ligatures on veins, iv. 1396. 

 phlebectesis ; varix, iv. 1397. 

 varices of the leg, iv. 13 ( J8. 

 varicocele, iv. 1399. 

 haemorrhoids, iv. 1399. 

 rupture or perforation of veins, iv. 1399. 

 affections of the valves of veins, iv. 1400. 

 phlenolites, iv. 1400. 



calcareous degeneration of veins, iv. 1402. 

 fatty tumours, iv. 1402. 

 entozoa in veins, iv. 1402. 

 calcareous deposits in the coats of veins, iv. 89. 



1. parietal, iv. 89. 



2. central, iv. 89. 



intra-venous air, secretion of, iv. 145. 

 adventitious formations in the, iv. 1U2. 



Vein-stones, or phlebolites, iv. 1400. 

 f'eins in particular ; 

 abdominal, i. 15. 

 alar, iv. 1407. 

 alveolar, Iv. 1404. 

 angular, iv. 1404. 

 of ankle, i. 150. 

 articular, iv. 1411. 

 auricular posterior, iii, 903. 

 axillary, i. 360; iii. 249; iv. 1407. 

 azygos, i. 365; iv. 1381. 1404. 1409. 



dorsal, i. 368. 



major, i. 365; iv. 1409. 



minor, or semi-azygos, i. 365 ; iv. 1409. 



superior, i. 366. 



left, iv. 1409. 

 basilic, i. 216. 360; ii. 63. 3G1. 3G2 ; iv. 1107. 



median, iv. 1407. 



b:>si-vertebral of Breschet, iii. 630. 

 of brain, iii. 704. 

 of bones, i. 436. 



brachio-cephalic, ii. 851 ; iv. 1408. 

 of brain, iii. 704. 

 bronchial, i. 366; ir. 1409. 



