GENERAL INDEX. 



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in the composition of the blood, i. 410. 

 removed from living bodies by the skin, iv. 456. 

 pressure of water on fishes at various depths, iii. 



413. 

 resistance of water to animal progression, iii. 413. 



431. 

 importance of water as an alimentary constituent, s. 



3^7. 

 mode of aqueous action on the various organs, s. 



quantity of water contained in the various kinds of 



food ordinarily made use of, s. 388. 

 sound transmitted bv, ii. 566. 

 Water-beetles, ii. 860. 



characters of, ii. 860. 



Wa'er-brash, or pyrosis, causes of, iii. 760, 

 Water-cells of the camel's stomach, s. 507. 536. 

 H aler-rat (Arvicola ainphibins), iv. :<-'.<. 



hibernation of the, ii. 7>'>4. See HIBERNATION. 

 Water-scorpion ( N'epa cinerea), ii. 8f 8. 

 Wnler-snakes (Hydrophyli;, mode of progression of the, 

 iii. 4H4. 



-spider, instinct guiding the formation of her singular 

 habitation, iii. 9. 

 Watery vapour exhaled from the lungs, ii 140. 



iie ear. See CERUMEN; HEARING, ORUAN or. 

 tribe (Mustelidze), dentition of the, iv. 913. 

 Weeril, its ravages in granaries, ii. 862. 



.' of the human bodv at different ages, i. 74. 

 Whales, i. 502, et seq. 



spouting apparatus, i. 580. 

 brain of, iii. 696. 



absolute weight of the brain of the, iii. 664. 

 chemical characters of whale oil, ii. 233. 

 vocal organs and voice of whales, iv. 1494, 1495. 



CETACEA. 

 Wkart >n's duct, iv. 424. 



of the ear-cockle or purples in, ii. 1 13. 

 Mmalcules, generative organs of, ii. 410. 

 c'ormant vitality of, iii. 157. 

 Whirlicigs, societies of, iii. 16. 

 Whistle-bone, or huckle-bone. See Coccyx. 

 White of the eye (tunica albuginea), ii. 174. 

 White matter'of the nerves, iii. 586. 646. 654. See NER- 



vurs CENTRES. 



White spots on the heart, ii. 644. 

 in the coats of arteries, iv. 87. 

 substance of nerves of Schwann, iii. 592 ; iv. 1 140. 

 swelling of the elbow-joint, ii. 73. 



or chronic strumous arthritis of the knee, iii. 60. 

 anatomical characters of the disease, iii. 62. 

 first stage, iii. 60. 62. 

 second stage, iii. 61,62. 

 prognosis iii. 61. 

 symptoms, iii. 60, 61. 

 of the wrist, iv. 1524. 

 . false, ii.528. 

 Whytt's views of the physiology of the nervous system, iii. 



Willis, circle of, iii. 673. 705. 



lateral, or posterior communicating, branch of internal 



carotid artery of Willis, i. 492. 

 Wilson's muscles, iii. 032. 

 Wings of insects, ii. 419. 539. 924. 



articulations of the wings, ii. 926. 



file of the wings, ii. 928. 



neuration, or distribution of the tracheae in the 



wings, ii 926. 



origin and development of the wings, ii. 925. 

 table showing the areae of the wings and the 

 weight of the body in various species of insects, 

 iii. 4-21. 



of birds, iii. 424. 



Winking, action of the eyelids in, iii. 79. 

 Winslow, foramen of, i. 502. 

 Winter egg, or hibernating ovum, s. [117]. [119]. [127], 



[12*]. See OVUM. 

 Wire-worm, ii. 861. 



- of, in meadows and corn-fields, ii. 861. 

 Wolf-fish, dental apparatus of the, iii. 978. 



n ho'lies iv. 982; s. 594. 

 Womb. See UTERUS. 

 Wombat, characters of the, iii. 267, et seq. 

 Wombat, digestive organs of the, s. 304. 



pelvis of the, s. 160. 



Women, depravity of, among the ancients, ii. 686. 

 Wool-mouse, hibernation of the, ii. 764. See HIBERNA- 



note. 

 Woodpeckers, mode of climbing and apparatus for prehen- 



.;. 451. 



W'irmiana ossa. See CRANIUM. 

 Worms (Annelida), digestive organs of the, s. 297. 



earth-worms, organs and mode of progression of the, 



iii. 441. 



ova of, s. [117]. 



luminousness of the earth-worm, iii. 198. 

 parasitic. See ENTOZOA. 



found in the liver, iii. 196. See LIVER Entozoa. 

 Wounds of arteries, cannon-shot and gun-shot, i. >.',. 

 of the cornea, ii. 177. 

 of the diaphragm, ii. 6. 



W. ane, teeth of the, iii. 978. 



Hupp. 



Wrfsberg, nerves of, i. 360. 



cutaneous nerve of, iv. 756. 

 \VnisT-JoiNT, iv. 1505. 



normal anatomy, iv. 1505. 



bones which constitute the wrist-joint, iv. 1505. 

 radius, iv. 150-S. 

 scaphoid, semilunar, and cuneiform bones of 



the carpus, iv. 1*06. 



Wrist-joint, triangular cartilage of, i. 249. 

 mobility of the. i. 256. 

 ligaments, iv. 1506. 



anterior radio-carpal, iv. 1506. 

 posterior radio-carpal, iv. 1506. 

 external lateral ligament of the wrist-joint, iv. 



1507. 



internal lateral ligament, iv. 1507. 

 synovia! membrane, iv. 1507. 

 mechanical functions of the wrist-joint, iv. 1507. 

 abnormal anatomy, iv. 1508. 



congenital dislocations, iv. 1508. 



cases, iv. 1508, 1509. 

 accident, iv. 1513. 



dislocations of the wrist, and neighbouring 



radio-ulnar articulations, iv. 1513. 

 of the bones of the forearm backwards, 

 with displacement forwards of the carpus, 

 iv. 1514. 

 luxations of the lower extremity of the ulna, 



iv. 1514. 

 of the lower extremity of the ulna at the 



wrist-joint, backwards, iv. 1515. 

 forwards, iv. 1515. 

 of the bones of the carpus, iv. 1516. 

 fractures of the lower extremity of the radius, 

 in the immediate vicinity of the wrist- 

 joint, iv. 1516. 

 symptoms, iv. 1517, 

 diagnosis, iv. 1518. 

 anatomical character of the fracture, iv. 



1520. 

 of the lower extremity of the ulna, iv. 



1521. 

 disjunction of the lower epiphysis of the radius, 



iv. 1521. 

 cases, iv. 1521. 

 disease, iv. 1523. 



acute arthritis of the radio-carpal and of the 



inter-carpal articulations, iv. 1523. 

 chronic strumous arthritis of the wrist, or 



white swelling, iv. 1?24. 

 anatomical characters of the disease, iv. 



1525. 

 chronic rheumatic arthritis of the wrist, iv. 



1526. 



anatomical characters, iv. 1527. 

 synovial tumours of the region of the wrist, 



iv. 1528. 

 morbid condition of the synovial bursae of the 



flexor tendons, iv. 1528. 

 painful crepitation of tendons around the 



wrist, iv. 1529. 



surgical anatomy of the wrist. See HAND. 

 wrist-joint contrasted with ankle-joint, i. 154. 



X. 



Xanthic oxide (xanthin) calculus, iv. 80. 

 Xanthoproteic acid, iv. 164. 



Xanthous races of man. See VARIETIES OF MANKIND. 

 Xiphias gladius, i. 115. 



Xiphoid appendix, or ensiform cartilage, iv. 1023. 

 ossification of the, iv. 1024. 



Y. 



Y-shaped cartilage of pelvis, s. 117. 120. 

 Yapock, or fresh-water opossum, iii. 261. 

 Yairning, probable causes of, iii. 722 K. 



sympathy in, iv. 852. 



influence of on paralytic limbs, iii. 40. 

 Yeast-p\nt, mode of reproduction of the, s. 224. 

 Yelk. yolk, or vitellu*. of egg, s. 3. 68. See OVUM. 



yolk-mass, s. [86]. 



Youth, periods of, at which the animal heat differs from 

 that of the adult age, ii. 663. 



Z. 



Zealanders, New, physical characters of the, iv. 1362. 

 portrait of a New" Zealander, iv. 1362. 

 causes of the tendency to extinction in the aborigines 



of. iv 1341. 



Zebra, the (Equus zebra), iv. 714. 

 Zephronia. a genus of Myriapoda, iii. 546. et tfq. 

 Zephnmiadte , a family of Myriapoda, iii. 546, et seq. 

 characters of the family, iii. 546. 

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