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A MANUAL OF VETERINARY PHYSIOLOGY 



Proteins, ferments, 253, 255, 323, 765 



history of, in body, 353 



intestinal digestion of, 212, 220, 

 291 



luxus consumption, 355 



muscle, 417 



clotting of, 418 



muscular energy, 352, 356 



nitrogenous equilibrium, 350, et 

 seq. 



of milk, 728 



oxidation of, 364, 365, 764 



poisons, 250, 330, 755 



precipitation of, 755, 756 



reconstruction of, 290, 354 



repair tissues, 353, 355, 356 



resynthesis of, 290, 354 



stomach digestion of, 189 



storing up, 354, 355 



sulphates conjugated in urine, 

 250, 330 



tests for, 755 



tissue, 353 



urea formation, 322, 323, 324, 

 354» 356 



vegetable, 755 

 Proteoses, 189, 290, 753, 755 

 Pro-thrombin, 20 

 Protoplasm, 699, 747 

 Psychical function, 508 



secretion, 191 

 Ptyalin, 163, 166, 759, 765 

 Puberty, period of, 694 

 Pulmonary system, blood -pressure 

 in, 72 



valve, 36, 38, 42 

 Pulse, 64, 67, 74 



cause of, 64, 74 



character of, 98 



rate, 78 



sphygmogram, 76 



tension, 78 



tracings, 77 



volume, 77 



wave, 75 

 Puncture, diabetic, 260 

 Pupil, 534 

 Purin bases, 326 

 Purkinje, cells of, 479 



fibres of, 31 

 Purpura, 27 

 Purring, 151 

 Pyloric glands, 186 

 Pyramidine bases, 753 

 Pyramids (medulla), 474 

 Pyrocatechin, 330 

 Pyrrolidine derivatives, 753 



Rabbit, duration of pregnancy, 722 

 Racking, horse, 626 



Radiation, 377 



Ramus communicans, grey, 84, 527 



white, 84, 526 

 Ranvier, node of, 435 

 Ration of labour, 364 



of subsistence, 364 

 Reaction of degeneration, 431 



velocity of, 76$ 

 Reagents. See Tests 

 Rearing, 640 

 Reason in animals, 509 



v. instinct, 512 

 Receptaculum chyli, 276 

 Receptors, 484 

 Recessive characteristics, 733 

 Reciprocal innervation, 148, 448, 



456, 586 

 Reciprocating action, stifle and 



hock, 601 

 Rectum, absorption from, 222, 284 



sphincters of, 234 

 Recurrent laryngeal, 148, 520, 522 

 Red corpuscles, 5 



nucleus (brain), 478 

 Reduced eye, 557 



haemoglobin, 6, 10 

 Reflex act, time of, 459 



action, 441. See also Nervous 

 system 



acts, 441, 444 



arc, 441, 445, 446, 447, 459 



centres, peripheral, 459 



foot, 452 



frog, 442 



impulses, 445 



inhibition, 444, 455, 456 



ischial, 455 



locomotion, 457 



reversal of, 459 



scratch, 448, 450, 452 



standing, 458 



stepping, 449 



tendon, 455 



tonus, 56 

 Refraction, errors of, 546 

 Reissner, membrane of, 578 

 Rennin, 188. See also Stomach 

 Reserve air, 138 

 Residual air, 138 

 Respiration, 99 



abdominal, 1 1 1 



muscles, no, in, 134, 497 



acapnia, 133 



acid, lactic, in blood, 136, 142 



air, alveolar, 120, 121 



amount of, required, 138 

 rest, 138 



work, 139, 

 142 

 atmospheric, 117 

 complemental, 138 



