xii Contents. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE VASCTTLAE GLANDS. 



PAGE 



The Spleen — Thymus— Thyroid— Anterior Renal Capsules — 



Pineal and Pituitary Bodies - - - 76-77 



CHAPTER VI. 



RESPIRATION. 



Mechanism of Respiration — Inspiration — Movements of the 

 Diaphragm— Expiration— The Muscles of Respiration— 

 The Number of Respirations — Movements of the Nostrils 

 and Glottis — Respiratory Changes in the Air and Blood — 

 Law of Dalton and Henry— Partial Pressure of Gases— 

 Apncea — Dyspnoea - Asphyxia — Nervous Mechanism of 

 Respiration— Quantity of Air Breathed— Gases of Respira- 

 tion _ - - - - 78-Jo 



CHAPTER VIE 



DIGESTION. 



Prehension of Food— Mastication— Deglutition— The Saliva, 

 Amount, Composition, Secretion, and Use of — Amylolytic 

 Action— Mechanism of the Secretion of Saliva— Stomach 

 Digestion in the Horse, Peculiarities of— Arrangement of 

 Stomach— Digestion of Hay— Digestion of Oats— Arrange- 

 ment of Food in the Stomach — Stomach Acids — Secretion 

 of Gastric Juice— Stomach Glands— Gastric Juice— Pepsin 

 — Rennin — Mucin— Action of Gastric Juice on Albumins, 

 Starch, Fat, Milk, Cellulose— Periods of Stomach Diges- 

 tion — Stomach Digestion in Ruminants — Arrangement of 

 the Stomachs— Stomach Digestion in the Pig— Absorption 

 from the Stomach— Self-digestion of the Stomach— Gases 

 of the Stomach — Vomiting — Rumination — Nervous 

 Mechanism of the Stomach— Intestinal Digestion in Small 

 Intestines — Succus Entericus— Reaction of the Bowels — 

 Chyme— Large Intestines— Ca;cum, Function of— Colon, 

 Function of— Single Colon— Putrefactive Processes in the 

 Intestinal Canal— Intestinal Gases — The Faces, Amount 

 of, Odour — Defalcation- Meconium— Nervous Mechanism 

 of the Intestinal Canal - - 96 158 



