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INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



Cancer, experiments for study of, 

 298, 321. 



Capillaries, the ; not known to 



Harvey, 11 ; discovered by Mal- 



pighi, 12. 

 Cardiograph, invented by Chauveau 



and Marey, 21. 

 Cartilages, epiphysial, influence on 



growth of bone, and in surgery, 50. 

 Cats, experiments on, 321, 340, 341, 



343- 



Cell-theory, the, 85. 



Centres in the cord and medulla, 



63-68 ; in the brain, 69-77. 

 Certificates under the Act, 320-322, 



336-342. 



Cholera, Koch's work on, 185 ; 

 self-experiments, 185, 186; HafT- 

 kine in India, 187 ; Simpson's 

 Report, 188 ; inoculations, in 

 Calcutta 189, Lucknow 192, 

 Gaya Jail 194, Assam-Burmah 

 Railway 197, Durbhanga Jail 

 197, Cachar Tea-Estates 199, 

 among coolies at Goalundo 202 ; 

 value of bacteriological diagnosis, 

 202. 



Circulation of the blood, observa- 

 tions before Harvey, 3-6 ; Harvey, 

 7-11. 



Collateral circulation, Hunter's 

 operation, 15 ; his experiment, 

 16. 



Commission on experiments on 



animals, 85, 87, 319. 

 Commission on plague, 207 ; report 



of, 207-233. 

 Commission of tuberculosis, 117. 

 Congress on tuberculosis, 116. 

 Cretinism, sporadic, 298. 

 Curare, not an anaesthetic under 



the Act, 345 ; accounts of its 



action, 346; never used alone, 



348. 



Darwin, evidence before Royal 

 Commission, 79. 



Dengue, possibly a mosquito-borne 

 disease, 254. 



Diabetes, early theories of, 35 ; 

 Bernard, 38-41 ; Pavy, 41 ; pan- 

 creatic diabetes, 45. 



Diapedesis, 88. 



Digitalis, action of, 302. 



Diphtheria : the Klebs - Loeffler 

 bacillus, 120 ; first use of anti- 

 toxin, 121 ; evidence from differ- 

 ent countries, 121-152; distinction 

 between death-rate and case- 

 mortality, 124 ; preventive use of 

 antitoxin, 125; curative use of 

 antitoxin, in Zurich 122, Hun- 

 gary 122, Germany 123, Russia 

 123, Paris 126, 152, United 

 States and Canada 128 ; Report 

 of Clinical Society's Committee, 

 London, 131 ; Hospitals of Metro- 

 politan Asylums Board, 137-149 ; 

 Woodhead's Report, 150; Sie- 

 gert's tables, 151 ; Woollacott, 

 136; Goodall, 152; complicated 

 cases, 136, 150; laryngeal cases 

 and tracheotomy cases, 122, 127, 

 130, 138, 142-149, 152. 



Dogs, experiments on, 321, 327, 



340, 34i, 343, 345- 

 Drugs, experiments with, 298-306; 

 old magical ideas in medicine, 

 299-301 ; the selective action of 

 drugs, 300 ; digitalis, 301 ; nitrite 

 of amyl, 302 ; action of drugs 

 on animals, 304. 



Electricity, diagnostic and thera- 

 peutic uses of, 315. 



Experiments in Physiology, 3-81 ; 

 in Pathology, Materia Medica, 

 and Therapeutics, 85-315. 



Experimenters on themselves, with 



