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INDEX. 



Cholesterine. See Bile. 



Cholic Acid. See Acid, Cholic. 



Choloidic Acid. See Acid, Choloidic. 



Chondrine. Its relation to proteine, 42. Ana- 

 lysis of tissues containing it, 95. 



Chronic Diseases. The action of inspired oxy- 

 gen is the cause of death in them, 17, 18. 



Chyle., When it has reached the thoracic duct, 

 it is alkaline, and contains albumen coagulable 

 by heat, 47. 



Chyme. It is formed independently of the vital 

 force, by a chemical transformation, 37. The 

 substance which causes this transformation is 

 derived from the living membrane of the sto- 

 mach, 37. Chyme is acid, 47. 



Clothing. Warm clothing is a substitute for food 

 to a certain extent, 16. Want of clothing ac- 

 celerates the rate of cooling, and the respira- 

 tions, and thus increases the appetite, 16. 



Cold. Increases the appetite by accelerating the 

 respiration, 16. Is most judiciously employed 

 as a remedy in cerebral inflammation, 76. 



Concretions. See Calculus, and Acid, Uric; also 

 Acid, Lithofellic. 



Constituents, Azotized. Of blood: see Fibrine 

 and Albumen. Of vegetables: See Fibrine, 

 Vegetable; Albumen, Vegetable; Caseine, Ve- 

 getable; Alkalies, Vegetable; and Caffeine. 

 Of bile: see Acid, Choleic, Cholic, and Cho- 

 loidic. Of urine: see Acid, Uric; Urea, and 

 Allantoine. 



Cooling. See Cold and Clothing. 



Couerbe. His analysis of cholesterine, 90. 



Cow. Amount of carbon expired by the, 14. 

 Comparison of the food with the excretions of 

 the cow, 86. 



Crum. His analysis of cane sugar, 90. 



Cultivation. Is the economy of force, 30. 



Cyamelide. Its formula, 81. 



Cyanic Acid. See Acid, Cyanic. 



Cyanide of Iron. Its remarkable properties, 78. 



Cyanuric Acid. See Acid, Cyanuric. 

 D. 



Davy. Oxygen consumed by an adult man, 82. 



Death. Cause of, in chronic diseases, 17, 18. 

 Caused in old people by a slight depression of 

 temperature, 75. Definition of it, 74. 



Demargay. His analysis of choleic acid, choloidic 

 acid, and taurine, 96. Remarks on his Re- 

 searches on Bile, 97. 



Denis. His experiments on the conversion of 

 fibrine into albumen, 21. 



Despretz. His calculation of the heat developed 

 in the combustion of carbon, 19. 



Diabetes Mellitus. The sugar found in the urine 

 in this disease is grape sugar, and is derived 

 from the starch of the food, 35. 



Diastase. Analogy between its solvent action on 

 starch, and that of the gastric juice on coagu- 

 lated albumen, 38. 



Diffusion of Gases. Explains the fact that nitro- 

 gen is given out through the skin of animals, 

 40; and the poisonous action of feather-white 

 wine, 39. 



Digestion. Is effected without the aid of the vital 

 force, by a metamorphosis derived from the 

 transformation of a substance proceeding from 

 the lining membrane of the stomach, 37. The 

 oxygen introduced with the saliva assists in 

 the process, 38, Lactic acid has no share in 

 it, 38. 



Disease. Theory of, 74 et seq. Cause of deato 

 in chronic disease, 17. Disease of liver caused 

 by excess of carbon or deficiency of oxvgen, 16 

 Prevails in hot weather, 17. 



Dog. Amount of bile secreted by, 27. Digests 

 the gelatine of bones, 35. His excrements con- 

 tain only bone earth, 36. Concretion of urate 

 of ammonia said to have been found by Las- 

 saigne in a dog, doubtful, 47 (note.') 



Dumas. His analysis of choleic acid, 96; of 

 choloidic acid, 96; of taurine, ib.\ of cholic 

 acid, 97; of hippuric acid, 98. 

 E. 



Eggs. Albumen of the white and of the yolk 

 identical, 37 Analysis of both, 93; of lining 

 membrane, 95. The fat of the yolk may con- 

 tribute to the formation of nervous matter, 37. 

 This fat contains iron, 37. 



Elaldehyde. See Aldehyde. 



Elements. Of nutrition, 35. Of respiration, 35 



Empyreumatics. They check transformations, 54. 

 Their action on ulcers, 41. 



Equilibrium. Between waste and supply of mat- 

 ter is the abstract state of health, 74, 78. 

 Transformations occur in compounds in which 

 the chemical forces are in unstable equili- 

 brium, 37. 



Ettling. His analysis of wax, 92. Ettling and 

 Will, their analysis of lithofellic acid, 100. 



Excrements. Contain little or no bile in man 

 and in the herbivora, none at all in the dog and 

 other carnivora, 27. Those of the dog are 

 phosphate of lime, 35. Those of serpents are 

 urate of ammonia, 24. Those of birds also 

 contain that salt, 24. Those of the horse and 

 cow compared with their food, 86. 



Excretions. Contain, with the secretions, the 

 elements of the blood or of the tissues, 43, 44. 

 Those of the horse and cow compared with 

 their food, 86. Bile is not an excretion, 26. 

 F. 



Fseees. Analysis of, 83. 



Fat Theory of its production from starch, when 

 oxygen is deficient, 32 et seq. / from other sub- 

 stances, 32. The formation of fat supplies a 

 new source of oxygen, 33 ; and produces heat, 

 33 et seq. Maximum of fat, how obtained, 34. 

 Carnivora have no fat, 31. Fat in stall-fed 

 animals, 33. Occurs in some diseases in the 

 blood, 35. Fat in the women of the East, 36. 

 Composition compared with that of sugar, 32. 

 Analysis of fat, 90. Disappears in starvation, 

 17. Is an element of respiration, 35. 



Fattening of Animals. See Fat. 



Featherwhite Wine. Its poisonous action, 39. 



Febrile Paroxyism. Definition of, 75. 



Fehling. His analysis of metaldehvde and elal- 

 dehyde, 92. 



Fermentation. May be produced by any azotized 

 matter in a state of decomposition, 40. Is ar- 

 rested by empyreumatics, 40. Is analogous to 

 digestion, 40. 



Fever. Theory and definition of, 75. 



Fibre. Muscular. See Flesh. 



Fibrine. Is an element of nutrition, 35. Animal 

 and vegetable fibrine are identical, 22. Is a 

 compound of proteine, 36. Its relation to pro- 

 teine, 42. Convertible into albumen, 21. Is 

 derived from albumen during incubation, 37. 

 Its analysis, 87, 94, Vegetable fibrine, how 

 obtained. 22, 



