APPENDIX. 



TERMS OF DESCRIPTION ( 1443) NIPPERS ( 1444) DROPPING-BOTTLE OILER ( 1445, 

 Fig. 129) LIQUID GELATIN ( 1446) OBTAINING ALCOHOL FREE OF TAX ( 1447) 

 DRYING JARS QUICKLY WITHOUT HEAT ( 1448) SOLUBLE BERLIN BLUE ( 1449) 

 BLUE GELATIN FOR INJECTIONS ( 1450) OBTAINING FROGS AND MENOBRANCHI 



( 1451, 1452) PITHING FROGS ( 1453, Fig. 130) MACROTOME ( 1454) BRAINS 



OF LOWER VERTEBRATES ( 1455) USE OF MICA ( 1456). 



1443 ( 23). Terms of Description. In a notice of the senior 

 author's paper (14} upon the brain of the cat, the Medical Record 

 (New York) for May 13, 1882, has the following : 



" We feel disposed to especially endorse his recommendation for 

 the more general adoption of such terms as cephalic and caudal, 

 dorsal and ventral, in place of superior, inferior, posterior and 

 anterior. The latter are often rendered ambiguous and confusing 

 to the student on account of the natural difference in posture be- 

 tween man and other mammals, and the fact that the human 

 cadaver is usually examined in a supine position." 



The American Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry (I, Feb., 

 1882), in a notice of the same paper (pp. 101-104), and in other 

 notices and editorials (pp. 46, 50, 55), employs the terms cephalic, 

 ectal, ental, ventral, ventrad, dorsal, caudad, cephalad, caudo- 

 cephalad. 



The same terms are consistently employed by Prof. T. B. Stowell 

 in his admirable paper (T) on the Vagus nerve in the cat, and by 

 our colleague, Prof. J. Henry Comstock, in his Report for 1880 (A) 

 as U. S. Entomologist, and in his Guide to Practical Work in Ento- 

 mology (B) ; in the latter, Prof. Comstock has made valuable sug- 

 gestions respecting the whole subject of toponomy, especially with 

 regard to the use of cephalic and caudal. 



1444 ( 146). Nippers. Besides the ordinary surgical bone forceps, there are the 

 dental " wedge-cutters," which closely resemble the nippers, but are highly polished and 

 provided with a spring for separating the handles ; they cost about $3.25. 



