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INDEX 



Pleura, complemental, 282 

 Pleural cavity, 278 

 Plexus, hypogastric, 146 



Auerbach's, 328 



Meissner's, 328 

 Pohl's observations on Leucocytosis, 



358 



Polar excitation, law of, 49 

 Polycrotic waves, 250 



pulse, 252 

 Polymerisation of raonosaccharids, 



317 

 Polymorpho-nuclear leucocytes (see 



Leucocytes) 

 Polysaccharids, 317 

 Pons Varolii, 155, 160 

 Portal circulation, 327 



vein, 327 

 Positive accommodation, 111 et seq. 



accommodation, varying power 



of, 114 

 Posterior columns of spinal cord, 152 



columns, nuclei of, 89 



corpora quadrigernina, 166 

 Potatoes, as food, 321 

 Poteriodendron, 75 

 Prsecordium, 218 

 Precipitins, 393 

 Predicrotic wave, 250, 251 

 Preformed sulphate in urine, 399 

 Preganglionic fibres, 143 

 Presbyopia, 114 

 Pressure, arterial, 259 



arterial, factors controlling, 259 

 Primitive nerve sheath (see Schwann) 

 Propionic acid, 423 

 Prostate gland, 414 

 Protagon, 78 

 Protamines, 10 

 Proteid metabolism, 371 

 Proteids, 9 et seq. 



as they leave the alimentary 

 canal, 357 



of blood, 201 



of cereals, 321 



conjugated, 12 



conversion into fat, 365 



diet, 375 



energy value of, 314 



native, 11 



requirements, 378 



sparers, 375 



Proteolytic period (see Gastric secre- 

 tion) 



Proteoses, 11 

 Prothrombin, 189 

 Protoplasm, 4 et seq. 



cell, 14 



Proto-proteoses, 12, 334 

 Proximate principles, 313 



sources of, 318 



Pseudoglobulin, 191 

 Pseudopodia, 193 

 Pseudo-nucleins, 12 

 Ptomaines, 352 

 Ptyalin, 328 



fate of, 352 

 Puberty, 413 

 Pulmonary area, 232 



valve, 217 

 Pulse, anacrotic, 252 



arterial, 246 



capillary, 254 



cause of, 246 



characters of wave, 247 



form of wave, 249, 254 



height of wave, 249 



high tension, 254 



length of wave, 248 



palpation of, 252 



rate of, 253 



rate, variations in, 220 



rhythm, 253 



tension, 253 



velocity of wave, 248 



venous (see Venous pulse) 



volume of, 253 

 Pulsus celer, 254 



parvus, 253 



plenus. 253 



tardus, 254 

 Pupil, 107 



contraction of, 112 

 Purin bodies, 370, 372, 397 



bodies, endogenous and exo- 

 genous, 397 

 Purkinje's cells, 161 



images, 118 



Pyloric end of the stomach, 325 

 Pyramidal tracts, 153 

 Pyramids of the medulla, 156 

 Pyrocatechin, 401 



QUADRIURATES, 398 



Quality of sounds, 310 



RADIATION of heat from skin, 361 

 Radicals, organic, 421 

 Ranvier, nodes of, 78 

 Reaction, 94 



of degeneration, 51 

 Receptaculum chyli, 358 

 Reception of stimuli, 178 

 Recollection, 175 

 Recti muscles (eye), 124, 125 

 Rectum, 326 



Recurrent laryngeal nerve, 240 

 Red marrow of bone, 202, 206 

 Red nuclei, 162, 167 

 Reduced alkaline hzematin, 198 

 Reflex action, 87, 91, 176 



function of the spinal cord, 149 



