Beck, on electr. var. of cortex, 395

Bell, Charles, on sensory and motor
nerve-roots, 478
Bell's palsy, 506

Belladonna, action on intestine, 169
Benzoic acid, 235, 242, 586
Benzyl-amido-acetic acid, 585
Bernard, Claude, on absorption, 211
on digestion of living tissue, 195
on gas exchange of muscle, 138
on pancreas, 202

on recurrent sensory fibres, 479
on glycogenesis, 213

Bernheim, on hypnosis, 565

Bernstein, on inexhaustibility of nerve,
380

on current of action, 376

on muscular sound, 335
rheotome, 310

Bert, Paul, rat's tail, 377
Bidder's ganglion, 48

Bidder and Schmidt, weight and excre-

tion of starving cat (fig. 109), 255
Biedermann, on excitation of muscle,
327

Bilateral movements, 523
Bile, 198

action of, 200
composition of, 198
secretion of, 206
Bile-pigment, 199, 205

relation to blood-pressure, 61
Blood-pressure in carotid artery, 57
effect on kidney, 229

of respiration on, 144
estimated by pulse, 57

- in fœtus, 579
-pulmonary, 66
- portal, 206

undulations of, 144
Blood-pump (fig. 8), 28

Blood-vessels, elasticity of, 76

- influence on coagulation, 22

Body, composition of, 7
Bohr, CO, and Hb, 142

Boll, on retinal purple, 449
Bowditch, on inexhaustibility of nerve,
380

on staircase' beats (fig. 46), 92
Bowman, active secretion theory, 226
Bowman's capsule (fig. 94), 224
Bradford, on renal nerves, 231

on renal action, 245

Bradford and Bayliss, on current in
submaxillary glands, 394

Brain, analysis of white matter of, 352
arteries of, 520

Capillaries, blood-pressure in, 63
of kidney (fig. 93), 223
of lung, 121

Caproic acid formula, 583, 586
Capsule, internal (fig. 274), 512
Carbohydrate, amount necessary, 262
to carbon dioxide, 251
destination in body (table), 252
effect on fat, 261
function of, 217

- heat-value of, 283

- relation to proteid required, 265
supplementing proteid, 260
compared with fats, 5, 252

- experiments on, 203

Carbon, amount in proteid, 252
discharged, 254

heat-value of, 284

Carbon dioxide, 8, 583

daily exhalation of, 133

discharged by tissues, 10, 119
estimation of in expired air

(fig. 59), 126

exhalation, 125

Cazeneuve and Livon, on absorption, 211
Cells, sensory, motor, 290

Centre of curvature of lens (fig. 202), 402
Centres of vascular system, 111

of cortex cerebri, 527
spinal cord and bulb, 494
sympathetic, 346
Centrifuge (fig. 5), 15

Cerebellar tracts, size of fibres, 488
Cerebellum, 515, (fig. 277) 517
Cerebral acts, relation to spinal, 298
- development, relation to intelligence,
514

vesicles, 576, (fig. 304) 577
Cerebrin, 352

Cerebro-spinal currents, 394
nerves, composition of, 346
distribution, 347

Cervical sympathetic (fig. 78), 180;
effect of section on sugar production,
244

dilating fibres of, 111

exp. on rabbit's ear, 108, 268, 358
Charcot, artery of cerebral hæmorrhage,

521
Charpentier, on retinal oscillation, 452,
457

Chauveau's hæmodromometer (fig. 28),
71

-on excitability of spinal cord, 483
Chevreul, on colour contrast, 453
Cheyne-Stokes rhythm, 131, (fig. 62) 132
Chiasma, optic (fig. 288), 536

Chloral, effect on vaso-constrictors, 113
Chlorides in urine, 236
Cholalic acid, 198, 235
Cholesteræmia, 352

Cholesterin, 199, (fig. 84) 200, 582
in nerves, 352
Choletelin, 199
Cholic acid, 586
Cholin, 588
Chondrin, 590

Chorda tympani (fig. 78), 180; exp.,
108, 506

Chromatic aberration (fig. 205), 404
Chromophanes, 449

Chronographs, 328

electrical (fig. 135), 316
Chyle cp. with lymph, 17