INDEX. 



Abscesses, cold, inspissation of pus in, 

 216; formation of, 496-497. 



Absorption, increased, of parts upon 

 the application of stimuli, 155, 336, 

 etc. 



Activity, the essential characteristic of 

 life, 324 ; see Vital activity. 



Addison, Mr., on the relation between 

 pus-, and colourless blood-corpuscles, 

 188, 527. 



Adipose Tissue. See Fat. 



Affinities, certain, between definite tis- 

 sues (parts) and definite substances, 

 154, 158; specific, of different exci- 

 tants (stimuli), 332. 



Ague, melanaemia in, 256-257. 



Alae vespertitionum, smooth muscle in, 

 146, 147. 



Alveoli, of cancer, how produced,. 499. 



Amaurosis, from capillary embolia, 244. 



Amyloid (lardaceous, waxy) Degenera- 

 tion, 409-427 ; appearance of organs 

 affected, 410 ; occurs in most parts of 

 body, 411 ; of minute arteries, 416- 

 417 ; of liver (hepatic artery, hepatic 

 cells), 417-418 ; its concomitants, 421 ; 

 of digestive tract from mouth to anus 

 (minute arteries, villi), 422 ; of kidney, 

 (glomeruli, afferent arteries), 422; of 

 lymphatic glands (minute arteries, 

 gland cells), 425-427 ; of spleen (folli- 

 cles), 411, 426. 



Amyloid Substance, its appearance, 410 ; 

 two kinds of, the one analogous to 

 vegetable starch (corpora amylacea, 

 prostatic concretions), the other, more 

 akin to cellulose, 411-415 ; their chemi- 

 cal reactions, 413, 414; the latter, 

 homogeneous, probably imported from 

 without, 419, but independent (au- 

 tochthonous) formation of in perma- 

 nent cartilage, 419 ; not hitherto de- 

 tected m blood, 419-420. 



Anaemia, occasioned by action of arte- 

 ries, 151. 



Anastomosing Corpuscles, systems of. 

 See Juice-conveying canals, and con- 

 nective-tissue corpuscles. 



Andral, on inflammation, 429. 



Aneurysms, how produced, 155 ; conver- 

 sion of coagula of, into homogeneous, 

 cartilaginous masses, 170. 



Aorta, elastic tissue of, 135, 152; mid- 

 dle coat of, 141 ; imperfect develop- 

 ment of, in chlorosis, 261 ; atheroma 

 of, 398-399. 



Apoplexy, from leukaemia, 203 ; from 

 capillary embolia, 244 ; from melanae- 

 mia, 257. 



Arcus senilis, 388. 



Arnold, 53. 



Arrectores pilorum, 85. 



Arteries, distinction between small, and 

 small veins, 86, 87-88 ; elastic tissue of 

 middle coat of, 135; muscular fibre 

 cells of middle coat of, 141-142; 

 structure of, 141-143 ; epithelium of, 

 146 ; muscular tissue of, 147-151 ; 

 contraction of, 147-161 ; rhythmical 

 movements of, in ears of rabbits, 147- 



148 ; dilatation of, not active, but 

 passive, and due to fatigue of walls, 



149 ; fatigue of muscular coat of, 150- 

 151 ; passive condition of, in so-called 

 active hyperaemia, 151; elasticity of, 

 152; aneurysms of, how produced, 

 153; simple fatty degeneration of, 

 380, 396-397, 404; fatty usure of, 

 381 ; atheroma of, 381-382, 394-402 ; 

 sclerosis and ossification of, 403-404 ; 

 calcification (petrifaction) of, 406-407 ; 

 minute amyloid degeneration of, 416- 

 417. 



Ascherson, on stickiness of white blood- 

 corpuscles, 184-185 ; his haptogenic 

 membrane, 377. 



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