INDEX. 339 



59, 61. The process of assimilation in adult and young car- 

 nivora compared, 67. Their urine, 78. The assimilative pro- 

 cess in adult carnivora less energetic than in graminivora, 80. 

 They are destitute of fat, 82. They swallow less air with 

 their food than graminivora, 118. Concretions of uric acid 

 are never found in them, 146. Both soda and ammonia found 

 in their urine, 163. 



CASEINE. One of the azotised nutritious products of vegetable 

 life, 47. Abundant in leguminous plants, 47. Identical in 

 organic composition with fibrine and albumen, 47, 48. Animal 

 caseine found in milk and cheese : identical with vegetable 

 caseine, 51. Furnishes blood to the young animal, 52. Is 

 one of the plastic elements of nutrition, 96. Yields proteine, 

 105, 106. Its relation to proteine, 126. It contains sulphur, 

 ib. Potash essential to its production, 164. Contains more 

 of the earth of bones than blood does, 52. Its analysis, 295. 



CEREBRIC ACID. See ACID, Cerebric. 



CHANGE OF MATTER. See METAMORPHOSIS OF TISSUES. 



CHEMICAL ATTRACTION. See AFFINITY. 



CHEVREUL. His researches on fat, 84. His analysis of fat, 300 ; 

 of cholesterine, ib. 



CHLORIDE OF SODIUM. See COMMON SALT. 



CHOLEIC ACID. See ACID, Choleic. 



CHOLESTERINE. See BILE. 



CHOLIC ACID. See ACID, Cholic. 



CHOLOIDIC ACID. See ACID, Choloidic. 



CHONDRINE. Its relation to proteine, 126. Analysis of tissues 

 containing it, 312. 



CHRONIC DISEASES. The action of inspired oxygen is the cause 

 of death in them, 27, 28. 



CHYLE. When it has reached the thoracic duct, it is alkaline, 

 and contains albumen coagulable by heat, 145. 



CHYME. It is formed independently of the vital force, by a che- 

 mical transformation, 108. The substance which causes this 

 transformation is derived from the living membrane of the 

 stomach, 109. Chyme is acid, 145. 



CLOTHING. Warm clothing is a substitute for food to a certain 

 extent, 22. Want of clothing accelerates the rate of cooling, 

 and the respirations, and thus increases the appetite, ib. 



COLD. Increases the appetite by accelerating the respiration, 22. 



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