700 



INDEX. 



Milk, souring and coagulation of, 336 



variations in, during lactation, 337 

 Milk-sugar, 83 



converted into lactic acid, 336 

 Mollusca, nervous system of, 375 

 MOORE AND PENNOCK, experiments on 



movements of heart, 275 

 Motion, 400 



Motor cranial nerves, 449 

 Motor nervous fibres, 403 

 Motor oculi cornrnunis, 450 



externus, 451 

 Movements, of stomach, 145 



of intestine, 164 



of heart, 273 



of chest, in respiration, 237 



of glottis, 240 



associated, 408 



of foetus, 631 

 Mucosine, 101 

 Mucous follicles, 327 

 Mucous membrane, of stomach, 133 



of intestine, 151 



of tongue, 483 



of uterus, 554, 615 

 Mucus, 327 



composition and properties of, 328 



of mouth, 125 



of cervix uteri, 554 

 Muscles, irritability of, 388 



directly paralyzed by sulpho-cyanide 

 of potassium, 390 



consentaneous action of, 430 



of respiration, 236 

 Muscular fibres, of spleen, 208, 209 



of heart, spiral and circular, 277 

 Muscular irritability, 388 



duration after death, 388 



exhausted by repeated irritation, 



390 

 Musculine, 102 



Nails, formation of, in embryo, 643 

 NEGRIER, on rupture of Grraafian follicle, 



in menstruation, 572 

 Nerve-cells, 372 

 Nerves, division of, 372 



inosculation of, 373 



irritability of, 390 



spinal, 39 S 



cranial, 446 



olfactory, 446 



optic, 447 



auditory, 447 



oculo-motorius, 450 



patheticus, 451 



motor externus, 451 



masticator, 452 



facial, 456 



hypoglossal, 477 



spinal accessory, 474 



trifacial (5th pair), 451 



glosso-pharyngeal, 459 



Nerves, pneumogastric, 461 



superior and inferior laryngeal, 4G2 



great sympathetic, 514 

 Nervous filaments, 368 



of brain, 309 



of sciatic nerve, 370 



motor and sensitive, 375 

 Nervous force, how excited, 391 



nature of, 395 



Nervous tissue, two kinds of, 368 

 Nervous irritability, 390 



how shown, 391 



duration of, after de'ath, 391 



exhausted by excitement, 392 



destroyed by woorara, 393 



distinct from muscular, 395 



nature of, 395 

 Nervous system, 365 



general structure and functions of, 

 365-387 



of radiata, 373 



of mollusca, 375 



of articulata, 376 



of vertebrata, 379 



reflex action of, 374 



Network, ..capillary, in Peyer's glands, 

 162 



in web of frog's foot, 296 



in lobule of liver, 339 

 Newly-born infant, weight of, 687 



respiration in, 687 



nervous phenomena of, 688 



comparative size of organs in, 689 

 NEWPORT, on temperature of insects, 256 

 Nitric acid, action of, on bile-pigment, 

 184 



precipitation of uric acid by, 354 

 Nitrogen, exhalation of, in respiration, 



242 

 Nutrition, 61-364 



Obliteration, of ductus venosus, 677 



of ductus arteriosus, 680 

 Oculo-motorius nerve, 450 

 (Esophagus, paralysis of, after division 

 of pneumogastric, 463 



development of, 645, 650 

 OEstruation, phenomena of, 569 

 Oleaginous substances, 86 



in different kinds of food, 88 



condition of, in the tissues and 

 fluids,' 88-93 



partly produced in the body, 93 



decomposed in the body, 94 

 in the blood, 170 



indispensable as ingredients of the 

 food, 107 



insufficient for nutrition, 108 

 Olfactory apparatus, 489 



protected by two sets of muscles, 520 



commissures, 382, 418 

 Olfactory ganglia, 382, 418 



their function, 418 



