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INDEX 



Quadratus lumborum, action of, in 

 respiration, 226 



Radiation from the skir., 657 

 Radiometer, 657 

 Raffinose, 334 



Rarefied air, effects of breathing, 291 

 Rations, soldiers', 615 

 Reaction of degeneration, 777 

 of intestinal contents, 413 

 * Receptive' substances, 180, 713 

 Receptor in reflex action, rdle of, 872 

 Receptors, 870 



Reciprocal relation of vasomotors, 184 

 Recurrent sensibility, 864 

 Referred pain, 863 



Reflex action, anatomical basis of. 870 

 flexion, 960 

 inhibition in, 875 

 irradiation of, 877 

 of spinal cord, 869 

 scratch, 960 

 arc, fatigue of, 874 



isolated conduction of impulses 



in, 871 

 peculiarities of conduction in, 



874 



properties of, 874 

 refractory state in, 875 

 cardiac death, 169 

 centres in cord, 887 

 peripheral, 884 

 inhibition, 168 

 of heart, 208 



through pulmonary nerves, 168 

 time, 886 



Reflexes, axon, 776, 885 

 common path of, 871 

 co-ordination of, 880 

 effect of strychnine on, 871 



tetanus toxin on, 871 

 facilitation of, 88 1 

 in disease, 886 



influence of brain on spinal, 882 

 in hemiplegia, 883 

 inhibition of antagonistic, 882 

 in man, 961 

 long spinal, 879 

 reversal of, 875 

 r6le of the receptor in, 872 

 short spinal, 878 



simultaneous, combination of, 880 

 successive combinations of, 880, 



881 



superficial, 886 

 vase-motor, 183 

 Refractory period of heart, 155 

 Regeneration, autogenetic, 776 

 of nerves, 772 



after anastomosis, 773 

 bifurcation of, 776 

 of tissues, 1074 



Regulation respiration, 276 

 Reil, island of, 938 

 Renal calculus, pain caused by, 873 

 Rennin, 347. 692 



function of, 348 

 Reproduction, 1074 



in higher animals, 1075 

 Reserve air, 235 

 Resistance, electrical, 697 

 measurement of, 698 

 Resonance, 231, 304, 308 

 Respiration, accessory phenomena of, 



230 



afferent nerves of, 270 

 and blood-pressure, 253 

 and nervous system, 268 

 artificial, 200, 229 



influence of, on blood-pressure. 



286 



breaking-point in, 233 

 by insufflation of oxygen, 202 

 calorimeter, 239 

 chemical regulation of, 275 

 chemistry of, 238 

 comparative, 221 

 cutaneous, 292 

 efferent nerves of, 269 

 external, 221 

 forced, influence on carbon dioxid* 



excretion, 244 

 frequency of, 233 

 heat given off in, 694 

 in condensed and rarefied air, 289 

 influence of cutaneous nerves on, 274 

 of muscular exercise on, 274 

 of superior laryngeal nerve on, 



272 



of vagi on, 270 

 internal, 221, 263 

 mechanical phenomena of, 224 

 methods in chemistry of, 238 

 of muscle, 265 

 types of, 228 

 Respiratory apparatus, physiological 



anatomy of, 222 

 capacity, 235 

 centre, 268 



action of carbon dioxide on, 275 

 of deficiency of oxygen 

 on, 275 



automaticity of, 278 

 spiral, 279 

 'dead space,' 235 

 exchange, 241 



gravimetric method, 239 

 Zuntz's method, 239 

 movements in animals, tracings of* 



294 



in man, 293 

 recording of, 232 

 pressure, 298 



variations of, 237 



