INDEX 



NOTE. References give the number of the page on which the matter referred to 

 begins. 



Acid, 23; production in eggs, 41; 

 in muscle, 41; in nerves, 25. 



Action current, 13. 



Aerobic tissue, 15. 



Afferent fiber, 58. 



Air, pure, 23. 



Algae, red, 92. 



Alkali, Greenbank, 114. 



Anaerobic tissue, 15. 



Anesthesia: partial, on local exci- 

 tability, 58; on conductivity, 

 58. See also Carbon dioxide 

 production. 



Anesthetics, 25, 61; on refractory 

 period, 48. On carbon dioxide 

 production see Carbon dioxide. 

 See also Ether, Urethane, 

 Chloral hydrate. 



Animal heat: discovery of nature 

 of, n; source of, n, 51. 



Apparatus, for carbon dioxide 

 determination. See Biometer; 

 Apparatus III. 



Apparatus III, 129; description, 

 130; diagram, 131; method, 

 130. 



Arachnid, So. 



Arbacia, 41. 



Asphyxiation: on refractory 

 period, 48; as cause of anes- 

 thesia, 60. 



Astacus, 30. 



Atmospheric oxygen. See Oxygen. 



Automatic ganglion. See Gan- 

 glion. 



Axis cylinder, 50, 51. 



Bacterial decomposition, 27, 28. 

 Banana fly, no. 



Barium carbonate: detection of, 

 in; precipitation of, 16, 19; 

 solubility of, 15; stages of 

 granulation of, diagrams, 123. 



Barium hydroxide, 15, 19, 20, 89, 

 94, no, 114,115, 118, 121, 130, 

 133- 



Bayliss, 29, 33, 45, note i, 18. 



Bicycle, compared to life-process, 

 107. 



Biometer, 6, 15, 17, 19; accuracy 

 of, 135; bubbles in, 123; cal- 

 culating results, 127, 128; cali- 

 brating volume of, 118; carbon 

 dioxide, free air for, 116; clean- 

 ing of, 115; description of, in; 

 diagram of, 113; photograph of, 

 17, 112; principles of, no; 

 qualitative use of, 120; quanti- 

 tative use of , 1 23 ; quick quanti- 

 tative comparison with, 122; 

 sensitiveness of, in; setting 

 up, 114; testing purity of air 

 in, 117; uses of, 109. 



Blaze current, 5, 88, 101. See 

 also Electrical signs of life. 



Blood supply, 16. 



Brain, 16, 59; increased metab- 

 olism in, 36; ring, 76. 



Brown, Horace, 87. 



Burch, 47. 



Cancer, pagurus. See Carbon 

 dioxide production. 



Carbohydrate, 10. 



Carbon dioxide production: by 

 life process, 22; comparison of, 

 in nerve and other tissues, 29; 

 in different animals: crabs, 

 cancer pagurus, 30; crayfish, 

 astacus, 30; Crustacea, 30; dog, 



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