INDEX 



%* References to the Practical Exercises are in black figures. 



ABDOMINAL breathing, 228 



muscles in expiration, 228 

 Abducens, or sixth nerve, 897 

 Aberration, chromatic, 987, 1063 



spherical, 987, 1063 

 Absorption, 420 



and lipoid solubility, 431 



coefficient of gases, 246 



comparative, physiology of, 425 



factors concerned in, 429 



from the peritoneal cavity, 433 



from the stomach, 427, 446 



gas exchange in intestine, 430 



in different animals, 425 



in large intestine, 445 



intra- and inter-epithelial, 440 



of bile-constituents in jaundice, 378 



of cane-sugar, 429, 446 



of carbo-hydrates, 439 



of fat, path of, 437, 458 



of gases in blood, 246 



of iron, 441 



of light, 972 



of osmosis and diffusion in, 429 



of parenteral, 440 



of proteins, 441 



of the food, 425 



physical introduction to, 420 

 theories of, 427-430 



of water and salts, 440, 416 

 Acapnia and blood-pressure, 182 



and mountain sickness, 292 



and shock, 190 

 Acceleration of heart by sipping water, 



169, 208 

 Accelerator nerves of heart, 157, 160, 



164, 197 

 Accessory auditory nucleus, 899 



vagus nucleus, 900 , 

 Accommodation, 980 



mechanism of, 982 



pupil in, 983 



Acerebral tonus, 911, 922 

 Acetaldehyde, 536, 553 

 Acetone, 553 



and katabolism of fatty acids, 559 



Acetone in diabetes, 521, 546 



in urine, 521 

 Aceto-acetic acid, 553, 558 



in diabetes, 546 

 A.C.E. mixture, 63, 213 

 Acetic acid, 547 

 Acid albumin, 346, 452 

 Acidity of gastric juice, 343, 411 

 Acrolein, 12 

 Action currents, 796, 804, 814 



and functional activity, 802 



diphasic, 798 



double conduction of, 766 



electromotive force of, 800 



in polarized nerves, 804 



in voluntary contraction, 736 



monophasic, 798 



of central nervous system, 810 



of eye, 811 



of glands, 810 



of heart, 88, 799, 806, 809, 

 816 



of muscle, 796, 816 



of phrenic nerves, 800 



of spinal cord, 766, 810, 867 



of vagus, 80 1 



of veratrinized muscles, 802 



propagation of, 797 



rate of propagation of varia- 

 tion, 800 



reflex, 885 



of skin, 8 10 



theories of, 80 1 



Adamkiewicz's reaction of protein, 8 

 Adaptation of digestive juices to food, 



362, 392, 398, 403, 407 

 of retina, 1007, 1018 

 Addison's disease and adrenals, 637 

 Adenin, 582 



Adequate stimuli, 873, 967 

 Adipocere, 555 *> 

 Adiposophilia, 560 

 Adrenal bodies, 637 



relation of, to coagulation, 45 



secretory nerves of, 640 

 cortex, function of, 644 



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