INDEX. 341 



metamorphosis derived from the transformation of a substance 



proceeding from the lining membrane of the stomach, 109. 



The oxygen introduced with the saliva assists in the process, 



113. Lactic acid has no share in it, 111, 112. 

 DISEASE. Theory of, 254 et seq. Cause of death in chronic 



disease, 27. Disease of liver caused by excess of carbon or 



deficiency of oxygen, 23. Prevails in hot weather, 24. 

 DOG. Amount of bile secreted by, 64. Digests the gelatine of 



bones, 97. His excrements contain only bone earth, 98. 



Concretion of urate of ammonia said to have been found by 



Lassaigne in a dog, doubtful, 146 (note). 

 DUMAS. His analysis of choleic acid, 315; of choloidic acid, 



ib. ; of taurine, ib.; of cholic acid, 318; of hippuric acid, 



319. 



EGGS. Albumen of the white and of the yolk identical, 107. 

 Analysis of both, 308 ; of lining membrane, 313. The fat of 

 the yolk may contribute to the formation of nervous matter, 

 108. This fat contains iron, 107. 



ELALDEHYDE. See ALDEHYDE. 



ELEMENTS. Of nutrition, 96. Of respiration, ib. 



EMPYREUMATICS. They check transformations, 170. Their ac- 

 tion on ulcers, 121. 



EQUILIBRIUM. Between waste and supply of matter is the ab- 

 stract state of health, 245, 258. Transformations occur in 

 compounds in which the chemical forces are in unstable equi- 

 librium, 109. 



ETTLING. His analysis of wax, 307. ETTLING and WILL. Their 

 analysis of lithofellic acid, 322. 



EXCREMENTS. Contain little or no bile in man and in the herbi- 

 vora, none at all in the dog and other carnivora, 64. Those 

 of the dog are phosphate of Hme, 98. Those of serpents are 

 urate of ammonia, 54. Those of birds also contain that salt, 

 54. Those of the horse and cow compared with their food, 

 290, 291. 



EXCRETIONS. Contain, with the secretions, the elements of the 

 blood or of the tissues, 132136. Those of the horse and 

 cow compared with their food, 290, 291. Bile is not an 

 excretion, 63. 



