692 



INDEX. 



Animal heat influenced by local causes, 

 261 



in different organs, 262 



increase of, after section of sympa- 

 thetic nerve, 521 



Animal and vegetable parasites, 532 

 Animalcules, infusorial, 529 



mode of production, 530 

 Annulus ovalis, 686 

 Anterior columns of spinal cord, 380 



their excitability, 402 

 Aorta, development of, 670 

 Aplysia, nervous system of, 375 

 Appetite, disturbed by anxiety, &c., 149 



necessary to digestion of food, 149 

 Aquatic respiration, 233 

 Arch of aorta, formation of, 671 

 Arches, cervical, 670 



transformation of, 671 

 Area pellucida, 590 



vasculosa, 603, 666 

 Arteries, 281 



motion of blood in, 282 



pulsation of, 283-285 



elasticity of, 281, 286 



rapidity of circulation in, 289 



omphalo-mesenteric, 666 



vertebral, 669 



umbilical, 669 

 Arterial pressure, 287 

 Arterial system, development of, 669-672 

 Articulata, nervous system of, 376 



reflex action in, 377 

 Articulation of tapeworm, 541 

 Arytenoid cartilages, 240 



movements of, 241 

 Assimilation, 324 



destructive, 341 

 Auditory apparatus, 505 



nerves, 447, 507 

 Auricle, single, of fish, 265 



double, of reptiles, birds, and mam- 

 malians, 266, 267 



contraction of, 279 

 Auriculo-ventricular valves, action of, 



269 



Axis-cylinder, of nervous filaments, 370 

 Aztec children, 426 

 Azygous veins, formation of, 673 



BEAUMONT, Dr., experiments on Alexis St. 



Martin, 135-146 

 BERNARD, on the different kinds of saliva, 



125 

 on effect of dividing Steno's duct, 



131 



on digestion of fat in intestine, 155 

 on formation of liver-sugar, 200, 202, 



203 

 on decomposition of bicarbonates in 



lung, 247 



on temperature of blood in different 

 organs, 262 



BIDDER AND SCHMIDT, on daily quantity 

 of bile, 188 



on effect of excluding bile from in- 

 testine, 195 



on reabsorption of bile, 196 

 Bile, 175 



composition of, 176 



tests for, 184 



daily quantity of, 188 



functions of, 193 



reaction with gastric juice, 193 



reabsorption, 196 



mode of secretion, 337 

 Biliary salts, 177 



of human bile, 183 

 Biliverdine, 103, 176 



tests for, 184 



passage into the urine, 357 

 Blastodermic membrane, 6b8 

 Blood, 213 



red globules of, 214 



white globules, 220 



plasma, 223 



coagulation of, 225 



buffy coat, 230 



entire quantity of, 231 



alterations of, in respiration, 243 



temperature of, 254 



in different organs, 262 



circulation of, 264 



through the heart, 270 

 through the arteries, 282 

 through the veins, 290 

 through the capillaries, 296 

 BOUSSINGAULT, on chloride of sodium in 

 food, 73 



on internal production of fat, 93 

 Brain, 381, 417 



of alligator, 382 



of rabbit, 383 



human, 386, 417 



remarkable cases of injury to, 419, 

 420 



size of, in different races, 423, 424 

 in idiots, 425 



development of, 638, 639 

 Branchiae, 232 



of meno-branchus, 233 

 Broad ligaments, formation of, 662 

 Bronchi, division of, 234, 235 



ciliary, motion in, 239 

 Brunner's glands, 152 

 Buffy coat of the blood, 230 

 Butter, 335 



composition of, 336 



condition in milk, 91, 335 

 Butyrine, 336 



Canals of Cuvier, 672 

 Capillaries, 295 



their inosculation, 296 



motion of blood in, 297 

 Capillary circulation, 296 



