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Ammo-valeric acid, 32 



Ammonia, 34, 151 



Ammoniacal odour of putrid urine, 



146 



Ammonio-magnesium phosphate, 156 

 Ammonium carbonate and carbamate 



as urea precursors, 150 

 Ammonium cyanate, 145 

 Ammonium sulphate, action of, on 



proteins, 27, 28, 40, 165, 182 

 Ammonium urate, 165 

 Amoeboid movements, 237 

 Amylolytic ferments, 65, 68, 184 

 Amylopsin, 19, 65, 78, 80; action of, 



82 



Amyloses, 16, 65 

 Anaerobic micro-organisms, 66 

 Analyses of gases, 234 

 Animal starch, 21 

 Anions, 236 



Anisotropous bodies, 223 

 Anti-bodies, 77 

 Antimony, 8 

 Antipepsin, 77, 105 

 Antiseptics, 63 

 Antithrombin, 105, 107 

 Antitoxic material, 121 

 Antitoxin, 123 

 Antitrypsin, 77, 105 

 Antivenin, 123 

 Apparatus necessary for practical 



work, 4, 5, 6 

 Appendix, 217 



Aqueous vapour, tension of, 8 

 Arabinose, 178 

 Arginase, 150, 161 

 Arginine, 32, 33, 35, 41, 81, 150, 161 

 Aromatic amino-acids, 33 

 Aromatic series, 18 

 Arsenic, 8 



Arterial blood, gases of, 127 

 Artificial gastric juice, 62 

 Asparagine, 32 

 Aspartic acid, 32, 81 

 Asphyxia, 128 

 Atmosphere, 126 

 Atomic weights, 8 

 Attraction sphere, 2 

 Atypical globulin, 198 

 Avogadro's law, 127, 240 



BACILLI, 65 



Bacteria, 65 



Bacterial action, 85 



Bacterio-lysin, 122 



Barcroft's apparatus for obtaining 



blood gases, 135 

 Barfoed's reagent, 178 

 Barium, 8 



Bath, warm, 29 



Baumann and Wolkow on alcapton, 



169 



Bausteine, 98 

 Beaumont, Dr., on gastric secretion, 



70 



Beef, 57 ; beef-tea, 59, 200 

 Beetroot, 18 

 Benger's liquor pancreaticus, 78, 186 ; 



liquor pepticus, 62 

 Benzene, 33 

 Benzoic acid, 162 

 Bernard, Claude, on glycogen of liver, 



96 ; diabetic puncture, 88 

 Bile, 78, 89, 100 ; amount secreted, 90 ; 



secretion of, 89 ; circulation, 90 ; 



characters of, 90 ; constituents, 90 ; 



mucin of, 91 ; pigments, 79, 90, 95 ; 



salts of, 79, 91, 94; uses of, 93; 



actions of, 94 ; in urine, 169 

 Biliary fistula, 89 

 Bilirubin, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 213; of 



meconium, 95 

 Biliverdin, 91, 92, 95 

 Bismuth, 8 

 Biuret, 39, 77, 141; reaction, 27, 39, 



183 

 Blood, 3, 101-126 ; coagulation of, 102, 



104, 194 ; corpuscles, 103 ; detection 



of, 120, 121; gases of, 127; specific 



gravity of, 222 ; tests for, 120, 121 ; 



pigment, 111 ; biological test for, 



121 ; plasma and serum of, 101, 108 ; 



in urine, 169; platelets, 103, 104, 



108, 196 

 Blood bulb, 234 

 Blood clot, 103 

 Bohr on absorption of oxygen, 130 ; 



on tension of carbonic dioxide, 130 

 Bone, composition of, 43 ; marrow, 23 

 Boron, 8 



Bowman's capsule, 143 

 Boyle-Mariotte's law for gases, 240 

 Bran, 58 



Bread, 50, 52, 58 ; composition of, 59 

 Bright's disease, 168 

 Bromine, 8 

 Brown and Morris on digestion of starch, 



68 



Buchner on ferments, 66 

 Buffy coat, 103 



Bunge on haematogens, 46 ; on milk, 53 

 Bush tea, 60 

 Butter, 49, 52 

 Butyric acid, 19, 24, 85 

 Butyrin, 55 



CADMIUM, 8 



Caffeine, 60, 159 



Calcium, 5, 8 ; phosphate, 49 



