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INDEX 



Rigor, heat-, 263, 674 



production of carbon dioxide 



in, 263 



Ringer's solution, 186 

 Ritter's tetanus, 636, 662, 727, 743 

 Ritter-Valli law, 682 

 Rods and cones in vision, 932, 935, 936, 



948 

 Rolando, fissure of, 844, 856 



substance of, 759, 763 

 Rontgen rays, for study of gastric 



movements, 306, 311 

 of lungs, 217 

 of vomiting, 312 

 visibility of, 950 

 Root-fibres, posterior, course of, in 



cord, 769, 791 

 Roots of spinal nerves, functions of, 



799, 792, 884 

 section and 'stimulation of 



884, 885 



Rosolic acid as indicator, 24 

 Rubro-spinal tract. See Monakow's 

 tract. 



Saliva, action of, in the stomach, 322 

 adaptation of, to food, 369 

 amylolytic action of, 319, 423 

 chemistry of, 319, 422 

 freezing-poin of, 358 

 functions of, 320 

 influence of nerves on secretion of, 



363-371 



paralytic secretion of, 369 

 reflex secretion of, 369 



in vomiting, 312, 369 

 secretory pressure of, 363 

 Salivary centre, 371 

 corpuscles, 320' 

 fistula, 370 

 glands, 319, 345 



action currents of, 734 

 blood-flow in, during activity, 



364 

 changes in, during secretion, 



346, 347, 352 



cranial nerves of, 362, 424 

 heat production in, 364, 586 

 removal of, 571 

 sympathetic nerves of, 363, 



425 



' trophic-secretory ' fibres of, 



366 



Salmin, 2, 503 



Salol, action of, on bile secretion, 388 

 Salt-hunger, 542 



gastric secretion in, 351 

 Salt solution, physiological, 178 

 Salts, absorption of, 417 



action of, on heart muscle, 185 



in diet, 549 



Salts in metabolism, 541 

 of bile, 337 

 of bone, 529 

 of erythrocytes, 43 

 of leucocytes, 47 

 of living matter, i 

 of lymph, 50 

 of milk, 542, 550 

 of muscle, 667 

 of serum, 42 

 of urine, 436, 444, 449 

 passage of, through placenta, 1013 

 Saponification of fats, u, 12, 338 

 Saponin, action of, on blood-corpuscles, 



27, 28, 62 



Sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid 

 Sarkin. See Hypoxanthin 

 Scalene muscles, in inspiration, 211 

 Scarpa's ganglion, 823 

 Schemer's experiment, 917, 987 

 Schmidt's fibrin-ferment, 32, 57 

 Schlitz's law of ferment action, 317 

 Sciatic nerve, to expose, 198 

 Scleroproteins, 2/529 

 Scopolamine, passage of, through 



placenta, 1013 

 Scratch-reflex, the, 799, 800, 804, 805, 



806, 887 

 Scurvy, prevention of, by vegetable 



acids, 552 

 Sebaceous glands, sebum, 435, 473, 



527, 737 

 Secondary contraction, 729, 738 



with heart, 188 

 Secretin, 347, 379, 384, 429 



gastric, 375 



Secretion, electromotive changes in, 734 

 internal, 552 



of corpus luteum, 557 

 of kidney, 569 

 of liver, 552 

 of ovary, 556 

 of pancreas, 553 

 of parathyroid, 559 

 of pineal gland, 571 

 of pituitary body, 566 

 of spleen, 571 

 of suprarenals, 563, 201 

 of testes, 556 

 of thymus, 557 

 of thyroid, 558, 560 

 paralytic, 369 

 psychical, 371, 374 

 Secretory pressure of bile, 386 



of pancreatic juice, 382 

 of saliva, 363 

 of urine, 466 



Segmentation of food in intestine, 307 

 Self-digestion of stomach, 360, 434 

 ' Self-steering ' of respiratory move- 

 ments, 226 



