INDEX 



1063 



Vein of rabbit's ear, injection into, 



6lO 



Veins, circulation in, 109, in, 121 

 pulse in, 91, 120 

 structure of, 74 

 valves of, 74 



vaso-motor nerves of, 164 

 velocity of blood in, 121 

 Vella's fistula, 341 

 Velocity of blood, 108 



in arteries, 116 

 in capillaries, 77, 119, 177 

 in veins, 122, 121 

 measurement of, 111-113, 



204 

 Velocity of the nerve -impulse, 689, 



713 



Velocity-pulse, curves of, 114, 115 

 Venous pulse, 91, 120 



tracings of, 137, 193 

 Ventilation, 243 

 Ventricles of brain, 747 

 Veratrine, action of, on muscle, 654 

 Vernix caseosa, 1017 

 Vertigo, 836, 837 

 Vesicular murmur, 216, 291 

 Vestibular branch of auditory nerve, 



823, 824 

 Vestibule, 823, 956 



and equilibration, 833 

 Vieussens, annulus of, 147, 190 

 Villi, 408, 413 

 Viscosity of blood, 22 

 Vision, central and peripheral, 925, 935, 

 946 



colour, 939 



far-point of, 915, 988 



in congenital!} 7 blind, after opera- 

 tion, 927 



near-point of, 915, 917 



physical introduction to, 892 



stereoscopic, 925 

 Visual acuity, 997 



angle, 904 



axis, 898, 914 



centres, 819, 857, 858 



field, 819, 946, 992 



illusions, 928 



judgment, 926 



path, scheme of, 819, 857 



purple, 736, 934 



regeneration of, 935, 936 

 Visuo-psychic and visuo-sensory areas, 



853. 860 



Vital capacity, 220, 291 

 Vitellin, 2 



Vitelline a tery and veins, 1010 

 Vitreous humour, 901, 902, 985 

 opacities in, 929, 914 

 Vocal cords, 277, 282 



Vocal cords, movements of, in res- 

 piration, 215 

 in voice production, 279 

 paralysis of, 286 

 Voice, production of, 276, 278 



pressure in trachea in, 279 

 falsetto, 281 

 in children, 279 

 Volkmann's method for blood velocity, 



in 



Volt, 616 

 Volume of corpuscles and plasma in 



blood, 26, 59 

 Volume-pulse, 116 

 Voluntary contraction, fatigue in, 652, 



709 



nature of, 660 

 Vomiting, 312 



caused by apomorphine, 312, 313, 



427. 432 

 centre, 313 

 Vowel cavities, 284 

 Vowels, Helmholtz's theory of, 283 

 Hermann's theory of, 284 



Wallerian degeneration, 692 



Warmth sensations, 968, 969, 791, 972, 



1001 

 after section of cutaneous 



nerves, 975. 977, 978 

 paths for, 795 

 Water, absorption of, 395, 417 



equivalent of calorimeter, 613 

 in diet, 549 



production of, in body, 541 

 valve, 614 

 Weber's law, 984 

 Weigert's method, 757 

 Welcker's method for quantity of 



blood, 47 



Weyl's test for kreatinin, 485 

 Wharton's duct, 362, 363, 424 

 Wheatstone's bridge, 617 

 Wheat flour, 546, 547, 612 

 Wheel -movements of eyes, 951 

 Whey-protein, 327 

 Whispering voice, 283 

 White blood-corpuscles, 16 

 Wolffian body, 1010 

 Wooldridge's tissue extracts and coagu- 

 lation, 38 



Word-blindness, 864 

 deafness, 866 

 pictures, 866 

 Work-adder, 664 

 Work, muscular, 583, 664, 646 



relation of, to heat-produc- 

 tion, 582, 583, 665 

 source of energy of, 669 

 of heart, 127 



