INDEX 



795 



Myopia, 616 

 Myosin, 555 

 Myosinogen, 555, 556 

 M yostromin, 556 

 Myxcedema, case of, 517 



Narcosis, 737 



Nature, nitrogen in, circulation of, 



259 

 Nerve cells, 570 



crural, 244 



eighth, 697, 699 



electromotive properties of, 559 



endings, effector, in muscles of lizard, 

 574 



fibres in muscle spindle, 658 



medullated, from a mammal, 571, 

 572 



physiology of, 579 



regeneration of, 578 



impulse, 7 



regeneration of, 576, 578 



roots, Wallerian degeneration of 

 663 



stimulation of, 176, 561, 573, 579 



supply of iris, 605 

 Nerves, afferent, 245, 573 



cardiac, 171 

 -of dog, 172 



of frog, 171 



cranial, 690 



nuclei of, 699 



depressor, effects of stimulation, 518 



efferent, 573 



iris, 605 



laryngeal, 295 



raedullated, 570 



non-medullated, 570 



seventh, 69& : 



sixth, 700 



spinal accessory, 691 

 mixed, 749 



splanchnic, 429, 510 



tenth, origin of, 694 



trigeminal, 700 



twelfth, origin of, 694 



- vagus, 173, 241, 298, 691 



- vaso-motor, 229, 242, 246 



Nervous centre, connections of, in secre- 

 tion of gastric juice, 374 

 of saliva. 374 



conduction, 574 



elements of vertebrate heart, 123 



impulse, rate of transmission, 580 



structures, stippled, 567 



system, 569 



autonomic, 748, 750 



stimulus, 7 



sympathetic, arrangement of, 748 



Neural arcs, 671 

 Neurogenous glycosuria, 432 

 Neuroglia, 572 

 Neuron, 569 



function of, 575 

 Neuro-tendinous nerve end-organ in 



rabbit, 659 



Nicotine, action of, 229 

 Night-blindness, 623 

 Nissl's granules, 569 

 Nitrogen in blood, 263 



of urine, 455 

 Nitroxyhaemoglobiu, 92 

 Non-goitrous cretins, 516 

 Nose, function of, 277 

 Nuclein, metabolism of, 443 

 Nucleoproteins, 48 

 Nucleus of Deiters, 698 



pontis, 698 



Nutrition, effect of vitamine on, 337 



of heart, 158 



Nuts, composition and value of, 349 

 Nylander's test, 61 

 for sugar in urine, 467 



Obesity, 442 



Odour- producing glands, 6 



Olein, 54 



Olfactometer, 597 



Olfactory epithelium of fowl, 596 



Olivo-spinal tract, 670 



Ontogeny, 3 



Ophthalmoscopes, 639, 640 



Opsonins, 109, 110 



Optic fibres, relations of, 713 



thalamuy, 710 

 Organic compounds, 34 

 Osmosis, phenomena of, 22 

 Osmotic pressure, 21, 22 



of blood. 80 

 Osseous labyrinth, 646 

 Ovary, 506, 767 



foetal, 767 

 Ovum, human, 768 



development of, 774 



embedded in uterus, 776 



embedded in wall of uterus, 775 



implantation of, 773 



maturation of, 764 



morula from, 772 



of bat, 771 



of cat before maturity, 9 



of toxopreustes, 759 



segmentation of, 773 

 Oxalates, 461 

 Oxblood, analysis of, 81 

 Oxidases, 73 



action of, 444 



Oxygen, atmospheres of, lung exudation 

 in, 303 



capacity of blood, 264 



consumption of, relationship of arterial 

 pressure to, 169 



relationship of pulse to, 169 



curves of human blood, 266 



excess of, effects, 303 

 - in blood, 263, 275 



percentage of, in respiration, 293 



use of, in man, 342 



want of, effects, 304 

 Oxyhaemoglobin, crystals of, from horse 



blood, 91 

 Oxyproline, 42 



