INDEX. 



Leucocytes, of human blood, 64 



staining of, 64 



varieties of, 67 

 Light, influence on plant cells, 2, 4 



refraction, 179 

 Lipolytic action of pancreatic juice, 



136 



Liquids, swallowing of, 130 

 Liver, formation of dextrose in, 141 



glycogen of, 140 

 Load, muscle, 25 

 LugoPs solution, 140 



Macrospores, i 

 Manometer, mercury, 113 

 Maximum response of heart mus- 

 cle, 96 



Mechanism of circulation, 102 

 Medulla, destruction of, in frog, 48 

 Meibomian glands, 178 

 Metabolism, carbohydrate, after pan- 

 creas excision, 141 

 effect of sunlight on plant, 3, 



4,5 



MethEemoglobin, spectrum of, 76 

 Microspores, i, 2 

 Migration of leucocytes, 81 

 Milk, digestion of, 134 

 Millon, reagent of, 131 

 Monocular fixation, 184 

 Mosso, ergograph of, 32 



plethysmograph of, 108 

 Motor areas, stimulation of, 53 

 Muscarin, action of, on heart, 90 

 Muscle, action current of, 36 



action of curare on, 25 



actual shortening of, 31 



demarcation current of, 36 



elasticity of, 20 



electric phenomena of, 34 



fatigue of frog's, 26 



fatigue of human, 31 



Muscle, Hooke's law, 21 

 involuntary, 45 



irritability of, to stimuli, 22, 23 

 isometric contraction of, 33 

 isotonic contraction of, 33 

 reaction of degeneration in, 44 

 secondary contraction of, 34 

 single twitch, action of drugs 



on, 45 

 form of, 23 



influence of fatigue on, 26 

 influence of load on, 25 

 influence of temperature 



on, 26 

 summation of contractions, 29 



of stimuli, 28 

 tensile strength of, 21 

 tension, influence on contrac- 

 tion, 32 

 tetanus of, 29 

 tone, 37 



volume of contracting, 28 

 work doneduring contraction, 31 

 Muscle-nerve physiology, 13 

 Muscles, dissection of frog's leg, 18, 



iQ 

 Myopia, 190 



Nerve cell, number of impulses dis- 

 charged in given time, 31, 55 

 conductivity, influence of con- 

 stant current on, 38, 40 

 electric phenomena of, 34 

 impulse, velocity of, 24 



diffusion of, in cord, 48 

 irritability, to stimuli, 22, 23 

 influence of constant cur- 

 rent on, 38, 40 

 stimulation of human, 42, 44 

 Nerves, cardiac, frog, 87 



rabbit, 100 

 chorda tympani, 122, 123 



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