INDEX 



795 



Pitch of voice, 149 

 Pituitary body, 59, 93, 297 

 Placenta, 708 



biliverdin in, 240 

 cotyledonary, 709 

 cumulata, 708 

 deciduate, 708 

 diffuse, 709 

 discoidal, 709 

 metadiscoidal, 709 

 non-deciduate, 708 

 plicata, 708 

 polycotyledonary, 709 

 zonary, 709 

 Plantar cushion, 655, 684 

 neurectomy, 349, 685 

 Plasma, 2 

 Platelets (blood), 9 

 Plethysmograph, jj 

 Pleura, 108, 109, 112, 265 



absorption from, 265, 282 

 Pleurisy, horse, 151 

 Pleuro-peritoneal space, 706 

 Pneumogastric nerve, 519 

 heart, 51, 52 

 intestines, 227 

 larynx, 127, 148, 520 

 respiration, 134, 519, 526 

 stomach, 209, 210, 526 

 section of, 522. See also 

 Respiration, Tenth pair, 

 and Vagus 

 Pneumonia, horse, 108, 151 

 Poikilothermal animal, 373 

 ' Pointing,' horse, 601 

 Polar bodies, 701 

 Polypeptid, 255, 753 

 Polysaccharides, 759 

 Pons, 476 



Pony, strength of, 648 

 Post-ganglionic fibre, 84, 525 

 inhibitory rebound, 457 

 -mortem rises of temperature, 



387 

 -sphygmic period, 43 

 Posture, 95, 402, 413, 458, 483, 506, 



587, 589, 596, 601, 607, 614 

 Potassium ferrocyanide, absorption 

 of, 281 

 iodide, absorption of, 282 

 indoxyl sulphate, 330 

 in urine, 332 

 kresyl sulphate, 330 

 phenyl sulphate, 330 

 salts, heart action on, 49, 50 

 in blood, 23 

 in body, 749, 750, 752 

 in lymph, 267 

 in sebum, 312 

 in sweat, 308 

 skatoxyl sulphate, 330 



Precipitins, 9 



Pre-ganglionic fibre, 84, 525 

 Pregnancy, duration of, 722 

 Prehension of food, dog, 154 

 horse, 153 

 ox, 153 

 sheep, 153 

 Prepuce, secretion of, 312 

 Presphygmic period, 43 

 Pressor nerve fibres, 86 

 Pressure, intrapulmonic, 112 

 intrapericardial, 71, 114 

 intrathoracic, 1 1 2 

 sense, 570 

 velocity, 66 

 Primitive groove, 706 

 Procreation, fitness for, 694 

 Pro-ferment, 764 

 Pronucleus, female, 703 



male, 703 

 Pro-oestrum, 688 

 signs of, 690 

 Propepsin, 189 

 Proprioceptive system, 422, 446, 



458, 484 

 Propulsor theory, urine, 321 

 Prorennin, 190 

 Prosecretin, 243, 252 

 Prostate, 693, 696 

 Protagon, 426 

 Protamines, 754 



Proteins, 752. See also Nutrition 

 absorption of, 289, 290 

 albuminoids, 356, 754 

 as food, 355, 356 

 amount in body, 343 



required, 367, 368 

 and fasting, 352 

 and starvation, 351 

 assimilation of, 290 

 bacterial decomposition of, 255 

 blood, 3 

 cell, in the, 748 

 chemistry of, 752 



amino acids, 752, 753 

 cleavage products, 354, 753 

 complexity of, 752, 753 

 heat evolved by, 364 

 not fully oxidised, 365 

 organic radicles in, 752 

 tests for, 755 

 circulating, 353 

 classification of, 754 

 crystallisation of, 755 

 derived, 755 



disintegration of, 250, 254, 255, 

 290, 330. 323, 324. 353. 

 354» 753 

 poisonous bodies, 250, 330 

 excretion of, 345 

 fattening animals, 354, 370 



