INDEX 



129 



compressed oxygen in 



treatment of, 45 

 in mines, 18, 45 

 oxygen deficiency in, 44, 45 

 remote effects of, 46 

 symptoms of, 46 

 Causation, physiological, 86, 



87, 103 

 Cell metabolism, 85 

 Chemical apnoea, 22 

 Chemistry and physics in life 



phenomena, 105, 106 

 Christiansen, 32 

 Circulation, 4 

 effect of C0 2 on, 15 

 function of, 68 

 in small animals, 46 

 regulation of, 68, 69, 73, 75 

 Circulation rate, and oxygen 

 consumption, 71, 76 

 at high altitudes, 57 

 local regulation by vaso- 

 constrictors, 72 

 method of determining, 71 

 of body as a whole, 71 

 regulation by CO2 elimina- 

 tion, 76 

 regulation by heart, 72, 73 

 regulation by oxygen con- 

 sumption, 76 

 Clinical medicine and physi- 

 ology, 94 

 Coal mines, gases in, 7 

 Co-ordination in physiologi- 

 cal activities, 1, 2, 26 

 Coxwell, 44 

 Croce-Spinelli, 44 



Darwin, Charles, 119 



Death, 114 



Delage, G., 3 



Diabetes, alveolar CO2 in, 35 



respiration in, 35 

 Diet, effect on alveolar CO2, 

 35, 37 

 effect on H-ion concentra- 

 tion of blood, 37 

 Disease, adaptation to, 95, 



96 

 Dissociation curve, constancy 



of, 34 

 Dissociation of oxy-haemo- 

 globin, 29 

 at high altitudes, 50 

 Dissociation of oxy-haemo- 

 globin curve, 29, 30, 31, 

 34 

 and inorganic salts in red 



blood cells, 31 

 as index of reaction of 



blood, 31 

 effect of acids on, 31 

 effect of alkali on, 31 

 effect of CO2 of blood on, 



30, 31 

 effect on absorption curve 

 of carbon dioxide, 33 

 Divers, air supply to, 20 

 Diving, effect of CO2 in, 19, 



20 

 Douglas, 32, 41, 54, 55, 58, 80, 



95 

 Dreser, 63 

 Driesh, Hans, 110, 111 



