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INDEX 



Albuminous glands, 261. 

 Albumoid, 78. 

 Albumoses, 74, 249. 



food value of, 108. 



influence of, on coagulation, 159. 



poisonous effects of, 250. 



primary and secondary, formed in digestion, 



249. 

 Alcohol, food value of, 110. 



formed in body, 376. 

 Alcoholic fermentation, 28, 40, 80. 

 Alcoholism, 30. 

 Aldehyde, glycerin, 373. 

 Alexia, or word blindness, 663, 669. 

 Algae at high temperature, 29. 

 Alimentary canal, digestion in different divi- 

 sions of, 290. 



movements of, 278. 

 Alimentary glycosuria, 127, 363, 374. 

 Alkali albuminates, 74. 

 Alkaline taste, 484. 

 "All or none" law, 183. 

 Allantom, 373, 382. 



Alloxuric bases, 76; see also Pvrin bases. 

 Alveoli, exchange of gases in, 340. 



partial pressure of gases in, 341. 

 Amacrine cells, 515, Fig. 211. 

 Amblystoma, 59, 60. 



Amino acids, part played by, in synthesis of 

 proteid, 23. 



as products of digestion, 249, 255. 



as a source of urea, 370. 

 Amino-acetic acid, 70. 

 Amino-butyric acid, 70, 72. 

 Amino-caproic acid, 70. 

 Amino-ethyl-sul phonic acid, 253. 

 Amino-propionic acid, 70. 

 Amino-pyro-tartaric acid, 70. 

 Amino-succinic acid, 70, 110. 

 Amino-valerianic acid, 70, 72, 249. 

 Ammonia, formation of, in body, 370. 



in expired air, 345. 



in urine, 372, 382. 

 Ammonium carbamate, 370. 

 Ammonium carbonate, 370. 

 Ammonium isocyanate, 381. 

 Ammonium lactate, 371. 

 Amnestic aphasia, 662. 

 Amceba, ingestion of food by, 36. 



movements of, 42. 



under low temperature, 29. 



protoplasmic currents in, 43, Fig. 26. 



successive phases in life of, 36, Fig. 21. 

 Amceba poly podia, 35, Fig. 20. 

 Amphibolous biliary fistula, 243. 

 Amphioxus, functions of "brain of," 618. 

 Ampulla of semicircular canal, 474. 

 Amusia, 665. 

 Amylolytic enzyme, 243. 



Amylolytic enzyme, in the bile, 254. 



in the pancreatic juice, 251. 



in the saliva, 246. 

 Anaemia, effect of, on fatigue, 445. 



of brain in sleep, 677. 



on power of localization, 464. 

 Anaerobic bacteria, 28. 

 Anaesthesia, 360, 597. 



Anagyrin, producing vasoconstriction, 583. 

 Analysis of sound, 493. 

 Anatomy, comparative, 2. 

 Anelectrotonus, 425, Fig. 162. 

 Angle a, 525. 

 Angle of incidence, 509, Fig. 206. 



of refraction, 509, Fig. 206. 



visual, 518. 



Angular convolution, 639, Fig. 289. 

 Animal diet, 145. 

 Animal gum, 82. 

 Animal heat, relation of muscular activity to, 



116; see also Heat production. 

 Anisotonic solutions, 32. 

 Anode, reduction of excitability by, 425. 



stimulating effect of, 59, 424. 

 Answering organ, defined, 411. 

 Antagonistic muscles, inhibition of, by stimu- 

 lation of cortex, 636, 640. 

 Antennularia antenina, 64, Fig. 37. 

 Anterior columns of spinal cord, 562, Fig. 254. 

 Anterior horn of spinal cord, 563. 

 Anterior roots of spinal cord, 563, 566, 593. 

 Antero-lateral columns of spinal cord, 595. 

 Anthrax bacillus, ingestion of, 37, Fig. 22. 

 Anthrax spores, survival of, at low tempera- 

 ture, 29. 

 Antibodies, 156. 

 Antienzymes in blood, 155. 



in organs, 269. 



Antilytic effect in blood, 157. 

 Antiperistalsis, 289, Fig. 117. 

 Antiprecipitating effect in blood, 157. 

 Antiseptic methods, 5. 

 Antitoxin in blood, 156. 

 Antrum pylori, 283. 



Anus, innervation of sphincters of, 299. 

 Anvil of ear, 495, Fig. 197; 496, Fig. 198. 

 Aorta, 162. 



blood pressure curve in, 170, Fig. 57; 171, 

 Fig. 58. 



cubic enlargement of, 201. 

 Apex beat, 172 seq. 



curve of, in horse, 173, Fig. 60. 



schema illustrating Ludwig's theory of, 172, 

 Fig. 59. 



time relations of, in man, 175, Fig. 62. 

 Aphasia, 663. 



alexia (word blindness), 653, 669. 



amnestic, 662. 



motor, 663. 



