INDEX. 



1045 



Plasma, "inert layer" of, in small blood-vessels, 



374 



proteids of, 349 



pure, method of obtaining, 360 

 regeneration of, after hemorrhage, 361 

 "salted," 357,360 

 structure and color of, 331 

 Pleuronectidse, chromotoblasts of, 35 

 Pneumograph of Marey, 531 

 Poikilothermous animals, 575 

 Poisoning, phosphorus, 957 

 Polymerization, 23 

 Polypnoea, causation of, 550 

 Polyspermy, 909 



Portal system, vase-motor nerves of the, 501 

 Post-mortem rise of body-temperature, 145, 604 

 Potassium, 963 

 carbonates, 964 

 chloride, 963 

 cyanide, 985 

 in the body, 964 

 phosphates, 963 

 sulphocyanide, 221, 222 

 thiocyanide, 986 

 Pregnancy, influence of, on the mammary 



glands, 204, 915 

 multiple, 920, 921 



physiological effects upon the mother of, 915 

 position of fetus at end of, 917 

 sign of, urinary coat as a, 968 

 Presbyopia, 760 

 Pressure, blood-, and speed, compared, 393 



arterial and venous, method of studying, 



377 



capillary, causation, 385 

 symptoms of bleeding in relation to, 383 

 the mean arterial, capillary, and venous, 



382 



venous, causation, 386 

 intrapulmonary, 505, 516 

 intrathoraci , 505, 516 

 sense of. See Touch. 

 upon a nerve, irritating effect of, 47 

 Pressure-curve, ventricular, and the auricular 



systole, 422 



and the valve-play, 422 

 ventricular, general characters of, 419 

 Pressure-points, cutaneous, 839 

 Pressure-sense, tympanic membrane as an organ 



of, 826 



Propeptone, 230 

 Prostate, secretion of the, 885 

 Protagon, 1001 

 of nerve, 151 



Proteid, composition of, 1016 

 digestion, products of, 1021 

 loss of, during starvation, 302 

 molecule, size of, 1021 

 oxidization of, power of tissue in, 286 

 putrefaction, products of, 1021 

 supply, value of meats as, 305 

 synthesis, experiments, 1021 

 Proteids, 214, 1016 



absorption of, intestinal and stomach, 252-254 

 action, of pepsin-hydrochloric acid on, 229 

 bacterial, upon the, products of, 249 

 of pepsin on, products of digestion in, 219 

 animal-food, digestibility of, 217 

 blood-, 346 



of lymph, 363 

 chromo-, 1018 

 coagulated, 1018 

 combined, 1018 

 digestion of, 214, 1021 

 effect of, on glycogen-formation in the liver, 



268 

 glyco-, 1019 



Proteids, importance of nutritive, to the body, 



214, 285 



luxus consumption of, 288 

 of milk, 201 



of muscle, fractional heat-coagulation to de- 

 termine the, 148, 149 

 nucleo-, 1019 

 of the blood-plasma, 349 

 fibrinogen, 350 

 paraglobulin, 350 

 serum albumin, 349 

 phospho-glyco-, 1020 

 potential energy of, 303 

 production of fats by the, 290, 291 



of glycogen from, 268 

 properties of, dependent upon the presence of 



inorganic salts, 294 

 putrefaction of, bacterial, 249 

 reaction of, general, 1016 

 remarks on the, general, 1021 

 vegetable, digestibility of, 217 

 Proteose defined, 230, n. 

 Proteoses, 230, 1018 

 Protoplasm, animal, katabolism of, 20 



synthetic properties of, 18 

 cell, continuity of, 84, 85 

 conductivity of, 35 

 contractility of, 32-35 

 defined, 17, 943 



dying, chemical changes in, 930 

 irritability of, 35 

 irritating effect of irritants upon different 



forms of, 39 



living and dead, differentiation, 18 

 death of, molecular change in, 23 

 divisions of, 17 

 instability of, 23, 24 

 specialization of function of, in highly 



organized animals, 21, 22 

 muscle, 35, 40-42 

 necessity of proteids for the formation and 



preservation of, 214 



nerve and muscle, resemblance of, 36, 37 

 plant, nutrition of, 215 

 primitive, immortality of, 930 

 properties of, fundamental, 21 

 structure of, molecular, 23-25 

 vegetable, synthetic properties of, 18 

 Proto-proteose, 230 

 Pseudo-mucoid, 1019 

 Ptyalin, 218, 222, 1008 

 action of, 222 



conditions influencing the, 224 

 conditions of the starch, 224 

 effect of reaction, 224 

 temperature, 224 

 of acids on, 224 

 specific, in saliva, 162 

 Puberty, 926 

 changes at, anatomical and physiological, 927 



voice, 871, 872 



period of, in the female and male, 927 

 Pulsation, cardiac. See Heart-beat. 

 Pulse, arterial, 385, 431 



celerity of stroke of, 432 

 dicrotic wave of, 435 

 extinction of the, 386 

 frequency and regularity of, 432 

 investigation of the, by the finger, 432 

 nature and importance of, 431 

 size of the, 433 

 tension of, 433 

 transmission of, 432 

 "bounding," defined, 433 

 compressible and incompressible, 433 

 "dicrotic," 435 

 digital examination of, in diagnosis, 432 



