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INDEX 



Purkinje-Sanson images, 906, 987 

 Pus cells, origin of, 54 



glycogen in, 47 

 Putrefaction, and crystallization of 



hemoglobin, 45 

 haemolytic effect of, 27, 62 

 products of proteins, action of, on 



blood-pressure, 570 

 Pycnometer, 57 

 Pyloric sphincter, 305, 309 



regulation of opening of, 305, 



380, 392 

 Pyramidal cells, 751 



giant, 774 

 tracts, 765, 777 



connections of, 774, 775, 852 

 in different animals, 776 

 relations of, to pons, 828 

 Pyramids, 767 



connections of, 774 

 decussation of, 768, 774, 777, 792 

 Pyrimidin bases from nuclein sub- 

 stances, 507 



Pyrocatechin in urine, 436, 445 

 Pyrogallic acid, absorption of oxygen 

 by, 251 



Quadratus lumborum, action of, in 

 respiration, 211 



Radiation, loss of heat by, 578 

 Radium rays, visibility of, 950 

 Raffinose, 316 

 Reaction, in physico-chemical sense, 23, 



439 



of blood, 23, 54, 57 

 of degeneration, 698 

 of intestine, 392, 393 

 of tissue liquids, 23 

 of urine, 439 

 regulation of, 24 

 time, 872 

 Receptive substances, 150, 166, 635 



field Of reflexes, 80 1 

 Receptor of reflex arc, 796, 798, 871 

 Reciprocal innervation, in reflex move- 

 ments, 80 1 

 in volitional movements, 838, 



846 



of bloodvessels, 171 

 Recurrent fibres, 372, 693, 791 



sensibility, 791 

 Red nucleus, 781, 784 

 Reduced eye, 903 

 Reductases, 509 



Reference of sensations, peripheral, 980 

 Referred pain, 790, 980, 982 

 Reflection of light, 892, 893 

 Reflex action, 796, 885, 887 



anatomical basis of, 797 

 inhibition in, 800, 80 1 



Reflex arcs, irreciprocal conduction in, 



688, 799 

 peculiarities of conduction in, 



799, 800 



refractory state in, 800 

 summation of stimuli in, 800 

 ' cardiac death,' 156, 235 

 centres in cord, 811 

 peripheral, 808 

 figure, 804 

 time, 809, 886 

 Reflexes, action of strychnine on, 80 1 



of tetanus toxine on, 80 1 

 after-discharge of, 800 

 axon-, 372, 809 

 combination of, 805 

 common path of, 797, 798 

 compounding of, 798 

 co-ordination of, 805 

 crossed, 793 

 differences between cortica 



reactions and, 847 

 extero- and proprio-ceptive, 810 

 facilitation of, 805, 807 

 from sympathetic ganglia, 371, 



809 



in disease, 810 



inhibition of, 800, 801, 806. 886 

 irradiation of, 802, 885 

 ' purposive ' character of, 805 

 reinforcement of, 805, 807 

 resuscitation of, 880 

 spinal relation of, to brain, 806 

 superficial and deep, 810, 811 

 Refraction of light, 894-896 



in eye, 902 

 Refractive index, 894 



of media of eye, 903 

 Refractory period of heart, 141 



in reflex arc, 800 

 Regeneration of nerve, 694-698 



autogenetic theory of, 697 

 chemistry of, 694 

 of nerves after anastomosis, 867 

 of tissues, 1003 

 Reil, island of, 855, 865 

 Renal nerves, 161, 468, 469 

 secretion, theories of, 455 

 tubules, 453, 454 

 vein, ligation of, 468 

 Renin, 570 



Rennin, 323, 326, 327, 353 427 

 Reproduction, a property of living 



matter, 6 

 sexual, 1004 

 Reserve air, 220, 291 

 Residual air, 220, 291 

 Resistance, electrical, 615 

 measurement of, 60, 617 

 osmotic, of erythrocytes, 64 

 thermometer, 574, 664 



