INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



387 



" Unani medical science," 229. 



Valves of the veins, 5-10. 



Vasomotor nerves : Bernard's dis- 

 covery, 65 ; Waller and Schiff, 

 67 ; Foster, 68. 



Veins not sensitive to touch, 323. 



Venesection, rational use of, 315. 



Venomous snakes, 308-314; their 

 poisons homogeneous, 312. 



Verruga Peruana, 306. 



Veterinary surgery, anaesthetics 

 in, 343 ; experiments in, 329. 



Virus fixe, 116. 



" Void sa figure," 96, 98. 



Vomito ?iegro, 276. 



Wallerian method, 77, 365. 

 Web, the frog's, 88. 



West African coast, and malaria, 



266-272. 

 Widal's reaction, 250-253. 

 Wounds, healing of, 350, 357, 365. 



Yellow fever, 274-286 ; mortality 

 of, 275, 280 ; early self-experi- 

 ments, 276 ; Finlay's inocula- 

 tions, 277 ; Sanarelli's serum- 

 treatment, 278 - 281 ; United 

 States Commissions, 282, 283 ; 

 Durham and Myers, 282 ; 

 Havana, and the change from 

 Spanish to American Govern- 

 ment, 284 ; report of GuiteVas, 

 283 ; of Gorgas, 284-286. 



Yersin, discovery of bacillus pestis, 

 204 ; curative treatment of 

 plague, 232. 



