A textbook of physiology / by M. Foster, rev. and abridged from the author's text book of physiology in five volumes; with an appendix on the chemical basis of the animal body, by A. Sheridan Lea.
- Michael Foster
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A textbook of physiology / by M. Foster, rev. and abridged from the author's text book of physiology in five volumes; with an appendix on the chemical basis of the animal body, by A. Sheridan Lea. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Spot, blind, of retina, 916 Spring-manometer, 195 Stagnation stage of inflammation, 293 Stapes, or stirrup bone, 986 Starch, action of saliva on, 314; chemi- cal composition of, 314; action of pan- creatic juice on, 314, 315; 'animal,' 569 ; its value in diet, 661 Starvation, its effect in checking produc- tion of glycogen, 563, 567 ; changes in body during, 620 ; fall of temperature attending, 649 Stearin, its presence in blood, 47; a con- stituent of animal fat, 606 Stellate ganglion, composite nature of, 255 Stereoscope, ocular movements affected by the, 953 ; principle of construction, 966 Stethometer of Burdon-Sanderson, 431 Stimuli defined, 53; various kinds of, 56 ; necessary characters of, 121 Stimulus, reflex actions varied according to nature of, 699 Stoluikoff's method of measuring the ' out-put' of the heart, 197 Stomach, nervous supply to, 339 ; its se- cretion of gastric juice, ib., 340 ; move- ments of, 377] changes of food in the, 388 Storage of bile in gall-bladder, 367 ; of glycogen in the liver, 565, 571 Striation of muscle tissue, 86 Stroma of red corpuscles, its composition, 32 ; embryonic formation of, from pro- toplasm, 35 Stromuhr of Ludwig described, 173 Strychnia, reflex action as affected by, 703 Substance, living, compared with dead, 3, 86; metabolic changes in, 39-41; chemical composition, 41 Substances, visual, hypothetical, 901 Succus entericus, its nature and action, 363 Sugar, its presence in the blood, 48, 573; normally present in blood and chyle, 414; formed by saliva from starch, 316; course taken by, during digestion, 414, 421; in diabetic urine, 522; its con- version into glycogen, 569; a product of metabolic changes, 570; its value in diet, 661 Sulcus, crucial and sigmoid, of dog's brain, 740 Sulphur in proteids, 17, 630; in urine, 518 Suprarenal bodies, the, 601 Swallowing, mechanism of, 373; its action on tympanic air pressure, 996 Sweat, how secreted, 551, 555; composi- tion of, 552 Sweat-fibres of different animals, course of, 557 Sweat-glands, 558; action of pilocarpin on, 557 Sweat-nerves, 558 Sweating in lower animals, 556; nervous mechanism of, 555; a reflex act, 557 Sympathetic system, fibres to plain muscles supplied by, 133; its connec- tion with spinal nerves, 141 Syntonin, 88 Systole, auricular and ventricular, 181- 185 ; ventricular, a simple contraction, 190; and diastole, comparative dura- tion of, 212-214; amount of blood driven by each, 153, 217; work of papillary muscles in, 183, 184 Systolic plateau, the, 197, 202, 207, 216 Tactile sensations, 1037; localization of, 1039 Tambour, Marey's, 192 Tambour-sphygmoscope of Hiirthle, 220 Tarsus of the eyelids, 976 Taurocholic acid, 356 Tears, secretion of, 978 Tectorial membrane, 1011 Teeth, order of their appearance, 1149 Tegmentum, the, 815 Temperature of living bodies, 2; as affecting clotting, 20; irritability, 125, 128; plain muscle, 134; ciliary action, 136; vaso-motor fibres, 271, 288; action of gastric juice, 328; action of rennet, 330; point of saturation of gas, 440; absorption of oxygen by liquids, 462; the cutaneous vessels, 555; perspira- tion, 550,555; storage of glycogen, 566; sense of taste, 1031 of expired air, 440; regulation of, by evaporation from the skin, 555; by variations in loss of heat, 641, 643; by the nervous system, 645, 646; of cold- blooded animals, 641; of warm-blooded animals, 641; normal, range of, 647; high, phenomena of death from, 649; low, effects of, 650; its relation to amount of food needed, 668; of body, maintenance of, 645; sensations of, 1041, 1056; terminal organs for sensa- tions of, 1056; sense of, in parts other than external skin, 1043 Tendon reflexes, 'knee-jerk,' 705, 717 Tenonian cavity and Tenon's capsule, 971 Terminal organs, special sensations due to, 1053; for sense of touch, 1054; for sense of pressure, 1056; for sense of heat different from those for sense of cold, 1056 ; cutaneous, their nature, 1057 Tetanic contraction, its nature, 55; due to repetition of stimuli, ib., 121](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21222125_1392.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
