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INDEX 



Lecithin, 4, 41, 42, 47, 335, 337 



in bile, 337 



in haemolysis, 28 



in nerves, 690 

 Leclanche cell, 182 

 Leech extract and coagulation, 35 

 Legal's test for acetone, 492 

 Lens, 900, 986 



alteration of, in accommodation, 

 905, 906 



chemistry of, 901 



radii of curvature of, 902 



refractive indices of, 903 



regeneration of, 1003 

 Lenses, refraction by, 895, 896 

 Leucin, 2, 526 



formation of urea from, 501 



and tyrosin formed in tryptic 



digestion, 332, 430 

 in urinary sediments, 450, 452, 



495 



Leucocytes, 16 



and absorption of fat, 414 

 of peptone, 420 



and coagulation, 36 



classification of, 17 



composition of, 47 



destruction of, 22 



emigration of, 54, 177 



enumeration of, 19, 58 



ferments in, 47, 355, 359, 510 



formation of, 22 



glycogen in, 47 

 Leucocytosis, 19 

 Leucyl-leucin, 503 

 Leukaemia, blood-corpuscles in, 19 



uric acid in, 449 

 Levatores costarum, action of, in 



respiration, 211 

 Levulose, 3, 315, 516, 520 

 Levulosuria, 516, 520 

 Liben's test for acetone, 492 

 Lieberkiihn's crypts, 345, 421 

 Light bath, action of, on blood, 275 



reflex, path of, 818, 829 



consensual, 910 



Lime-juice as antiscorbutic, 552 

 Limulus blood, coagulation of, 36 



heart, cause of beat of, 130 

 action of drugs on, 151 

 Lipases, 42, 315, 334, 510, 527 



gastric, 323, 328 



in succus entericus, 342 



pancreatic, 331 

 Lipoids, 4, 690 



of erythrocytes in ha3inolysis, 28 

 Lissauer, tract of, 764 

 Listing's law, 951 

 Litmus as indicator, 24, 393 



paper, glazed, 54 

 Liver and coagulation of blood, 40 



Liver and destruction of erythrocytes 



21 



ferments in, 510 

 formation of bile-pigments and 



acids in, 355 

 of glycogen in, 511, 512, 513, 



519, 608 



of sugar in, 511, 515 

 of urea in, 501, 505 

 heat-production in, 585 

 internal secretion of, 552 

 iron in, 21, 355, 432 

 Minkowski's experiments on, 502 

 structure of, 14, 345 

 Living and dead proteins, 499 

 Living matter, composition, i 

 functions, 6 

 structure, 4 



' Living test-tube ' experiment, 31 

 Localization of function in brain, 867, 



872 

 degree of, in different animals, 



872 



of sensations, 980, 982 

 Locke's solution, 139 

 Locomotion, 839 

 Locomotor ataxia, equilibration in, 



835. 



knee-jerk in, Su 

 pupil in, 910 

 tactile sensations in, 795 

 Loeb on artificial parthenogenesis, 1007 

 Loewenthal's tract. See Antero-lateral 



descending tract 

 Lungs, circulation in, 208 

 elastic tension of, 209 

 influence of, on coagulation, 40 

 quantity of blood in, 208, 268 

 secretory action of, 258 

 structure of, 207 

 vaso-motor nerves of, 163 

 Lutein, 1006 

 Luxus-consumption, 535 

 Lymph, circulation of, 176 

 composition of, 49 

 dextrose in, 49, 417 

 formation of, 406 



and activity of organs, 410 

 and blood-pressure, 408, 409 

 functions of, 51 

 gases of, 260 



osmotic pressure of, 410, 411 

 post-mortem flow of, 412 

 Lymphagogues, 406 

 Lymphatic glands, formation of lymph- 

 ocytes in, 22 

 Lymphatics, 407 



absorption of bile by, 355 

 Lymph-hearts, 177 

 Lymphocytes, 17, 22, 47 

 Lysin, 33L 332 



