430 



INDEX 



Arytenoid cartilages, 307, 332 



Ash of milk, 319 



Asphyxia, 306 



Aspirates (see Consonants) 



Assimilation, 382 



Association, mechanism cerebral, 183 



Astigmatism, 115 



Atropin, 385 



effect on heart, 239 



effect on salivary secretion, 330 



effect on sweat secretion, 409 

 Atwater on energy requirements, 378 

 Auditory centre, 181 



nerve, 134 et seq. 



cochlear root of, 134 



vestibular root of, 135 

 Auerbach's plexus, 328 

 Auricle, 211 



musculature of, 211 



pressure in, 225 



Auriculo-ventricular valves, 228 

 Availability of food-stuffs, 381 

 Axon, 76 



BACILLUS coli communis, 351 

 Bacterial action in the alimentary 



canal, 350 



Bananas as food, 322 

 Barcroft and Haldane's method for 

 estimating gases in the blood, 

 199 



Barfoed's solution, 316 

 Barium salts, influence on blood pres- 

 sure, 260 



Barnard Hill's sphygmometer, 258 

 Barotaxis, 16 

 Bases, hexone, 10 



of the urine, 402 

 Basilar membrane, 132 

 Basis bundles, 153 

 Basophil leucocytes (see Leucocytes) 

 Beans as food, 321 

 Beaumont's work on gastric digestion, 



333 



Benzene compounds, 423 

 Benzoates in the circulation, 399 

 Bi-amide of carbonic acid (see Urea) 

 Bidder's ganglion, 238 

 Bile, 341 et seq. 

 Bile, action of salts of, 342 



as a haemolytic agent, 342 



crystalline, 342 



duct, 326 



effect of drugs on, 345 



flow of, 344 



influence of nerves on flow of, 

 345 



mode of formation of, 345 



nature of, 345 



pigments, 342 



pigments, fate of, 353 



Bile, pressure under which secreted, 



345 

 Biliary calculi, 343 



colic (see Colic) 

 Bilirubin, 198, 342, 370 

 Biliverdin, 342, 353 

 Binocular vision, 123 

 Biuret test, 347 

 Bladder, urinary, 407 

 Blastoderm, 416 

 Blind spot, 116, 181 

 Blood, 187 et seq. 



coagulation of, 188 



constituents, fate of, 204 



constituents, source of, 201 



defibrinated, 188 



distribution of, 204 



flow, 270 



flow in arteries, 273 



flow in capillaries, 273 



flow in veins, 273 



gases, 199 



plasma, 187 



platelets, 187, 193 



serum, 188 



specific gravity, 188 



sugar, 316 



total amount in body, 203 

 Blood corpuscles (see Leucocytes, Ac.), 



192 et seq. 

 Blood-pressure, 245 et seq. 



general distribution, 245 



in kidney, 405 



mean, 257 



method of measuring, 257 



method of measuring in man, 2;18 



respiratory changes in, 256, 29(1 



tracing, 256 



variations in, 246 

 Blood vessels, circulation in, IM:; 



coats of, 244 

 Bolus of food, 331 

 Bone, 34 et seq. 



chemistry of, 38 



development, intra-cartilaginous, 

 35 



development, intra-membranous, 

 34 



marrow, 202 



structure of, 34 et seq. 

 Bowman's capsule, 403 



glands, 140 



Brain (see Cerebrum, &c.) 

 Breath sounds, 288 

 Broca's convolution, 186 

 Brodie, on extract of suprarenals, 385 

 Bronchial sound, 288 

 Brown-Sequard, on administration of 



testicular substance, 388 

 Brown-Sequard, removal of the supra- 

 renals, 384 



