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INDEX 



Muscle, degeneration of, 66 



development, 202 



direct stimulation, .217 



Dobie's line, 204 



efficiency, 248, 250 



elasticity, 210 



electrical changes in, 212 



electrical condition of, 212 



electrotonus, 63 



extent of contraction, 223 



factors modifying contraction, 

 225 



fatigue, 226 



force of contraction, 223 



forceps, Marey's, 225 



galvaiiotonus, 62 



heart, 205 



heat production in, 212, 246 



in action, 215 



isometric tracings, 225 



isotonic tracings, 225 



latent period of contraction, 223 



lever arrangement of, 231 



metabolism. 254 



mode of action, 231 



optimum load, 244 



oxidation, 254 



material oxidised, 255 

 mode of, 256 



paradoxical contraction, 72 



physical characters of, 210 



physiology of, 210 



polar excitation of, 62, 67, 219 



proteins of, 207 



red, 205 



sarcolemma of, 204 



sarcous substance, 204 



skeletal, 217 



spindles, 105 



stapedius, 167, 169 



stimulation bv galvanic current, 

 219 



stimulation by induced elec- 

 tricity, 219 ' 



stimulation, direct, 217 



stimulation, methods of, 218 



stimulation temperature, 219 



storage of food in, 352 



structure of, 202 



successive stimuli, 228 



tension developed, 224, 242, 

 248 



tensor tympani, 167, 169 



tetanus of, 229, 230 



tonus of, 211 



visceral, 203, 215 



Muscle, voluntary contraction, 230 



white, 205 



work, 242 



work measurement, 245 



work production, relationship 

 to heat production, 246, 248 

 Muscles, and joint sense, 105 



co-operative antagonism of, 231 



of eyeball, 159 



of larynx, 551 

 Muscular sense, 105 



work, effect on metabolism, 266 



work, effect on respiratory in- 

 terchange, 258 et seq. 

 Myelocytes, 484, 501 

 Myenteric plexus, 94 

 Myocardium, 384 

 Myoglobulin, 208 

 Myohsematin, 210 

 Myoids, 202 

 Myopia, 150 

 Myosin, 207 

 Myosinogen, 207 

 Myostromin, 208 

 Myxcedema, 596, 597 



Native proteins (see Appendix II.) 

 Near point of accommodation, 1 46 

 Necrobiosis, 10, 214 

 Neopallium, 181 

 Nephridium, 570 

 Nerve, 58 



automatic action of, 75 



cells, 75 



centres (see Centres) 



changes in disease and injury 

 in, 66 



chemistry of, 57 



conduction, 76 



corpuscles, 56 



degeneration of, 67 



development, 53 



electrical changes in, 60 



excitability, variations in, 68 



exposed, stimulation of, 62 



fibres, 56 



fibres, medullary sheaths of, 56 



fibres, non-medullated, 56 



grey, 56 



impulse, nature ot, 74 



stimulous, relationshijj of, 68 



structure of, 55 



under skin, stimulation of, 64 

 Nerves, afferent, 74 



anterior roots, 107 



auditory, 172 



