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INDEX 



Voluntary muscles, 60, 61, 63, 80, 81. 

 Vomer, 40. 



Waste products, 71, 82, 181, 190, 207, 



261 ; see excretion. 

 Water, excreted by the kidneys, 257, 



261. 



excreted by the skin, 257-259. 

 in gastric juice, 230. 

 necessity for pure, 364-366. 

 uses in nutrition, 206. 

 Wax glands, 127. 

 Weisberg, cartilages of, 137. 

 Whispering, 139. 

 White blood corpuscles, described, 149, 



151. 

 function of, 338. 



White blood corpuscles, in lymphatic 

 system, 169-171. 



properties of, 12. 



spleen manufactures, 255. 



study of, 16. 

 White fibrous tissue, 24. 

 White light, production of, 102. 

 White nervous matter, 30, 32, 275 ; sec 



nervous system. 



White substance of Schwann, 277. 

 Wisdom teeth, 219. 

 Work, healthfulness of, 76. 

 Wounds, surface, 344. 

 Wrist, bones of, 46. 



Yeast, 243-245. 

 Yellow spot of eye, 109. 



