INDEX. 345 



92. Dissolved by diastase, 107. Its relation to choleic acid, 144. 

 Its relation to the principal secretions and excretions, 145; to cho- 

 loidic acid, 149; to bile, 150, 153, 155, 157. Its analysis from fif- 

 teen different plants, 285 et seq. 



STARVATION. Process of, 24. Cause of death in, 26. 



STRECKER. His analysis of starch from 12 different plants, 286. 



SUGAR. Analysis of grape-sugar, 286 ; of sugar of milk, 287 ; of 

 cane-sugar, 289. Is an element of respiration, 92. 



SULPHUR. Exists in albumen, and caseine, 39, 120. 



SULPHURETTED HYDROGEN. Theory of its poisonous action, 262. 



SULPHURIC ACID. See Acid, Sulphuric. 



SUPPLY of matter. See Nutrition. 



SUPPLY and WASTE. Equilibrium between them constitutes the 

 abstract state of health, 242, 243. Effects of its disturbance, ib. et 

 seq. Means for restoring the equilibrium, 236, 245, et seq. 



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TABLES of the food consumed by soldiers in Germany, 278. Of the 

 food and excretions of the horse and cow, 279, 280. 



TAURINE. How produced from bile, 127. Its relation to choleic 

 acid, 128. Its relation to uric acid and urea, and to allantoine, 147; 

 to uric acid , 148 ; to alloxan, z7>. ; to choloidic and choleic acids, 

 and ammonia, 150 ; to caffeine, or theine, 170 ; to asparagine, ib. ; 

 to theobromine, il. t 171. 



TEMPERATURE. Its effects on the amount of inspired oxygen, 16, 

 and on the appetite, 17 et seq. A slight depression of temperature 

 causes death in aged people, 255. Temperature of the blood in 

 different animals, 281. Temperature of the body constantly kept 

 up by internal causes, 18-22. 



TENDONS. Analysis of, 301. 



THAULOW. His analysis of cystic oxide, 310. 



THEINE. Identical with caffeine, 169. And with guaranine, 314. 

 Theory of its action, 171 et seq. Its relation to bile, 170. Its 

 analysis, 314. 



THEOBROMINE. Analogous to theine, 169. Theory of its action, 



171 et seq. Its relation to bile, 170, 171. Its analysis, 314. 

 THEORY. Of animal heat, 16 et seq. Of digestion, 104 ct seq. Of 



respiration, 253 et seq. Of the motions in the animal organism, 

 185 et seq. Of disease, 242 et seq. Of the action of caffeine, &c., 



172 et seq. Of the action of the vegetable alkalies, ib. Of health, 

 242, 243. 



