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INDEX 



Batteries, 182, 615 

 Beats, 999 



Beaumont on digestion, 323 

 Bechterew's nucleus, 824 

 Beckmann's apparatus, 399, 492 

 Bellon's recorder, 290 

 Bell's experiments on nerve-roots, 790 

 Benzoic acid, 441, 508 

 Bert on double conduction in nerves, 

 688 



on effects of oxygen at high pres- 

 sure, 274 



Betz cells in the cortex, 774, 852 

 Bichromate cell, 182 

 Bidder's ganglia, 129 

 Bile, 334-341, 430 



absorption of, 355, 383 



acids, 336, 430 



formation of, 355 

 Hay's test for, 430, 491 



adaptation of, to food, 386 



as an excretion, 396 



circulation of, 383 



composition of, 335 



curve of secretion of, 383, 385 



digestive action of, 341 



freezing-point of, 358 



gases of, 260, 337 



in emulsification of fats, 338 



influence of nerves on secretion of, 



383 



mucin, 335, 430 

 pigments, 335, 355, 43* 



relation of, to spleen, 571 

 precipitation of gastric digest by, 



34i 



quantity of, 338 



rate of flow of, into gut, 385, 392 



reactions of, 430 



salts, action of, on blood, 27, 62 

 decomposition of, 337 



secretory pressure of, 386 



spectrum of, 336 

 Biliary fistula, 339, 383 

 Bioplasm. See Protoplasm and Living 



matter 



Bipolar ganglion cells, 747, 753 

 Bird's blood, coagulation of, 34, 39 

 Biuret reaction, 7, 426 

 Bladder, 472 

 Blastoderm, 1008 

 Blind spot, 931, 992 

 Blood, carbon dioxide in, 24 



coagulation of, 30, 36, 54 



composition of, 41 



conductivity of, 25, 60 



distribution of, 46, 49, 172 



flow through organs, 173 



freezing-point of, 26, 358 



influence of carbon dioxide 

 on, 255 



Blood, functions of, 51 

 gases of, 246 



analysis of, 251 

 distribution of, 252 

 in embryo, 1013, 1017 

 tension of, 256 

 guaiacum test for, 68 

 kinetic and potential energy of 



circulating, in 

 laking of, 26, 61 

 opacity of, 26, 6l 

 oxygen dissociation curve of, 255 

 precipitin test for, 30 

 quantity of, 47, 48 



in lungs, 208 

 reaction of, 23, 54, 255 

 regeneration of, 21 

 specific gravity of, 25, 54 

 stains, examination of, 71 

 sugar in, 41, 462, 511, 516, 519 

 velocity of, 108-119 

 in arteries, 116 

 in capillaries, 77, 119, 177 

 in veins, 122 



measurement of, 111-113, 204 

 viscosity of, 22, 464 

 volume of corpuscles and plasma, 



26,59 

 why it does not clot in the vessels, 



40 



Blood-corpuscles, coloured, 15 

 composition of, 42 

 crenation of, 16 

 destruction of, 21, 29 

 enumeration of, 18, 58 

 formation of, in embryo, 20 

 gaseous metabolism of, 252 

 life-history of, 19 

 osmotic resistance of, 64 

 potassium in, 255 

 rouleaux formation of, 16 

 shadows or ghosts of, 6l 

 size of, 15 

 structure of, 15 

 white, 1 6 



enumeration of, 19 

 Blood-plates, 18 



in coagulation, 36 

 Blood-pressure and acapnia, 168 



curves with elastic manometers, 



85, 102 

 with mercurial manometer, 



101, 103, 195 

 effect of extracts of bone-marrow 



on, 570 



of kidney on, 570 

 of nervous tissue on, 569 

 of pituitary on, 568 

 of suprarenal on, 201, 563 

 of testicle[on, 557 

 of thymus on, 558 



