592 



INDEX. 



Manometer, differential, 131 



elastic, 127 



maximum, 107 



mercurial, 87 

 Marsh gas, 532 

 Masseter muscle, 372 

 Mastication, 372 

 " Mastzellen," relation of, to colostrum corpus- 



cies, -'<;:; 



Meal extracts, physiological action of, 359 



Meals, composition of, 278 



Meconium, biliary salts in, 544 



Melanins, 574 



M< licyl alcohol, 540 



Mercapturic acids, 547 



Mercury manometer, description of, 87 



Metabolism, conditions influencing, 359 



definition of, 20 



during sleep, 361 



during starvation, 362 



effect of temperature on, 362 



influence of the cell-nucleus on, 22 



methods of estimating, 343 

 Metaphosphoric acid, 514 

 Methane, origin of, 532 

 Met haemoglobin, 44, 57.'! 

 Methods, physiological. .'!1 

 Methyl amido-acetic acid, 538 

 Methylamine, 541 

 Methyl mercaptan, 534 



selenide, 534 



telluride, 534 



violet, in testing for mineral acids, 289 

 Micellae, definition of, 25 

 Micturition, 389 



centre for, 391. 393 



nervous mechanism of, 392 

 Milk, composition of, 261 



mineral constituents of, 530 



normal secretion of, 264 

 Milk-sugar, 565 



Millon's reaction for proteids, 576 

 nature of, 569 

 with phenol, 569 

 Mineral acids, tests for, 289 



constituents, amount of, in the tissues, 530 

 Mitosis, •-'ii 



Molecules, physical and physiological, 25 

 Mononuclear leucocyte-. I- 

 Morphin, effeel of, on body-temperature, 472 

 Mouth, temperature in the, 469 

 Mucin of bile, 325 



of gastric .juice. 288 



of saliva, 2H.'{ 



physiological value of, 221 



properties of. 578 



secretion of. 217 

 Mucous glands, histology of, 216 

 Mailer's experiment, 152 

 Mu n\ icl. 555 

 Muscarin, 543 



act ion of. on the heart, 150 

 Muscle, digastric. 372 

 genio-hyoid, 372 

 glycogenic function of, 330 

 involuntary, properties of, 370 

 masseter, 372 



mineral constituents of, 530 

 mylo-hyoid. 372 

 obliquus externus, 407 



interniis, 11)7 

 pterygoid, external, 372 



internal, 372 

 pyramidalis, 407 

 temporalis, :'>72 

 transversalis abdominis, 407 

 trapezius, 105 



Muscles, abdomiuales, action of, in vomiting, 

 387 

 respiratory function of, 407 

 erectores spina 1 , 405 

 expiratory, 407 

 glycogen of the, 330 

 infrahyoidei, 405 

 inspiratory, 399, 405 

 intercostal. 402, 407 

 levatores ani, 407 



costarum, 402 

 of mastication, 372 

 pectorales, 405 

 quadrati lumhorum, 399 

 rhomboidei, 405 

 scalei, 401 



serrati postici, 399, 402 

 st e in o-cle id 0- mastoid, 404 

 thermogenic function of, 490 

 triangulares stern i, 407 

 vaso-motor nerves of, 210 

 Muscular exercise, effect of, on metabolism, 359 

 on the pulse rate, 121 

 on the rate of respiration, 426 

 on the respiratory exchanges, 433 

 on the respiratory quotient. 438 

 on the sweat glands, 260 

 on the venous circulation, 95 

 Mycoderma aceti. 537 

 Mylo-hyoid muscle, 372 



Myogonic theory of the causation of the heart- 

 beat, 150 

 Myohsematin, 578 

 Myosin, absorption of, 315 

 Myxcedema, 269 



Native albumins. 577 



Negative pressure in the auricles, 137 



in the heart, 98 



in the thorax, 95 



in the veins, 94 

 variation of the beating heart, 153 

 Nerve, auriculotemporal, 218 

 chorda tympani, 194, 219 

 coronary, of the tortoise, 164 

 depressor, 172, 203 

 facial, secretory fibres of, 219 

 glossopharyngeal, secretory fibres of. 218 

 Jacobson's, 218 



lingual, secretory fibres of, 219 

 small superficial petrosal. 218 

 vagus, cardiac branches of, 159 



gastric branches of, 381 



intestinal branches of, 385 



pulmonary branches of, 465 



respiratory functions of. 459 



secretory fibres of, 232, 239 



trophic influence of, on the heart, 166 

 Nerve-endings in the liver, 245 



in the salivary glands. 220 

 Nerves, augmentor, of the heart, 167 

 cardiac, 1 I s 



cervical sympathetic. 193 

 depressor, of the heart. 172 

 of the bile vessels, 248 



phrenic, 163 



septal, of the frog's heart, 166 



splanchnic, 17.'! 



trigeminal, 463 

 N'ervi erigentes, intestinal branches of, 385 

 Neukomiu's test for bile acids, 545 

 Neuridin, 543 

 Neu rin, 543 



Neurogenic theory of the causation of the heart- 

 beat. 149 

 Neuro-keratin, 580 

 Neutral salt-, effect of, on blood coagulation, 62 



