INDEX, 



489 



Donders on cross sections of fibres, 2. 



on cross sections of muscles, 64. 



estimate of blood pressure, 144. 



work done by heart, 147. 



capacity of the left ventricle, 138. 



Drop, length of, required for instan- 

 taneous death in hanging, 1 1 . 



Duncan (Matthews), and Tait, expe- 

 riments on uterine membranes, 155. 



Dynamical work done by muscle, 44. 



the muscles 



of entire body, 62. 



Edentata, foot tendons of, 107. 

 Effects of muscular contraction, 5. 

 Electrical theory of muscular contrac- 

 tion, 6. 

 Ellipsoidal muscles, 210. 

 Emu, muscular type of, 424. 

 Equivalent fibre in skew muscles, 360. 

 Experiments, Foot's, 26. 



Jevons', 39, 442, 450, 460. 



Haughton's, Dr., 454. 



» J- G., 473- 



,, Captain, 26. 



„ S., 26. 



Macalister's, 463, 479. 



Nipher's, 442, 462, 475. 



Ormsby's, 26. 



Fatigue, law of, 29, 450. 

 Felidae, biceps of, 179. 



depressors of arm in, 250. 



extensors of forearm in, 251. 



hamstrings of, 261. 



gastrocnemii of, 261. 



Fibres, elementary, shape of cross 



sections of, 2. 



elementary, dimensions of, 1. 



of heart, arrangement of, 431, 434. 



of heart, proper and common, 



437. 



- of heart of ox, lengths of, 441. 



Fibrillae, 5. 



Final causes, 75, 156. 



Flexor hallucis longus, 76. 



digitorum, 76. 



accessorius, 76. 



muscles of forearm, 63. 



tendons of hand, 120. 



Foot, tendons of, 76. 



Foot, Dr., experiments by, 26. 



Force of leg flexors, 68. 



absolute, of muscles, 63. 



transfer of, caused by skew 



muscles, 361. 

 Formula for finding length of drop in 



hanging, 9. 



for wave motion, 15. 



for finding statical work done 



by muscles, 25. 

 Fox, Bengal, foot tendons in, 99. 



finger flexors of, 130. 



flexor pollicis of, 131. 



Friction in tendons of foot, 76, 102, 87. 



in tendons, table of, 118. 



in tendons of fingers, 134. 



in long flexors of birds, 117. 



Frog, work done by muscles of, 72. 



General laws of muscular action, 442. 

 General principles, 1 . 

 Gig action of horse explained, 177. 

 Glutaeus primus, 364. 



quartus, 371. 



quintus, 373. 



secundus, 367. 



tertius, 369. 



Goat, Bombay, hand tendons of, 132, 



,, foot tendons of, 103. 



Gorilla, dissection of, 400. 

 Gratiolet, on thumb of Chimpanzee, 

 121. 



Greyhound, adductor muscles of, 343, 

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muscular type of, 397. 



