Principles of human physiology : with their chief applications to pathology, hygiene and forensic medicine / by William B. Carpenter.

  • William Benjamin Carpenter
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1846
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    INDEX. The Numbers refer 18 ; bi-latcral sympathy of, 16 ; respira- tion and heat of, 18 ; nervous system of 324—334 Articulate sounds, 612—619 ; vowols, 613 615; consonants, 616, 617 Articulation, movements of, guided by sensa- tion, 611, 617 Asphyxia, nature of, 778 ; phenomena of, 779, 780; referred to, 738, 740, 814,820 Assimilation in Plants, 107; in Animals, 271, 781 Asthma, spasmodic, 504, 759 Atrophy, 789—791 Attention, effects of, on sensations, 519—521 Auditory ganglia, in Fishes, 357 ; in Man, 422 Auditory nerve, 446 ; terminations of, in car, 559 Auricles of heart, action of, 718, 719 ; capa- city of, 723 b Automatic actions, 438 a Azote, absorption and exhalation of, 766 ; excretion of, in urine, 819, 842—850 • respiration in, 769, 780 B. Barry, Dr. M., his researches on the blood- corpuscles referred to, 148; his embryolo- gical researches referred to, ] 30, 900—918 Barry, Sir D., his experiments on the venous circulation, 744 b Basement-membrane, 135 Bat, peculiar sensibility of, 526 Batrachia, 31, 32 ; metamorphosis of, 32 Beaumont, Dr., his experiments and observa- tions on digestion, 637, 649, 657—660, 664—666 Becquerel on the heat of Plants, 889 a ; on the heat of Animals, 891; on the heat of Muscle, 890 Bee, perfection of instinct of, 336 ; construc- tion of hexagonal cell by, 336 note ; un- educability of, 429 6 ; temperature of, 889 c Bell, Sir C, his discoveries referred to, 344, 349, 351, 376, 377, 433 Bell, Mr. T., on the development of the teeth, 217 i ; on secretion after death, 624 Bellingeri, on the Spinal Cord, 34.0 Berger and Delaroche, their experiments on Animal Heat, 888 Berber race, 94 Bernard, M. Ch., his researches on digestion, 658 b, 664 b, 669 Bibra, Von, his analyses of Bone, 196; of Teeth, 212 Bile, secretion of, 831—837 ; composition of, 833 ; amount of, 834 ; formed from venous blood, 831 ; partly an excrementitious fluid, 836; effects of non-elimination of, 836; sources of, 836 ; purposes of, in digestive process, 660, 670, 671, 835 ~> the Paragraphs. Birds, 33—41 ; skeleton of, 37, 38 ; respi- ration and heat of, 33, 757, 889 c ; cover- ing of, 36 ; instinctive powers and intelli- gence of, 39, 479; nutritive system in, 40 ; bi-lateral symmetry in, 40 ; develop- ment of young in, 41 ; blood-corpuscles of, 146 5, 149 ; brain of, 361 Bischoff, his experiments on respiration, 768 Bladder, contraction of, 390 Blake, Mr., his experiments on the Circula- tion, 725 Blind persons, acuteness of touch in, 525 Blondlot, M., his researches on digestion, 658 ft, 6646 Blood, Physical and vital properties of, 696— 708 ; composed of liquor sanguinis and corpuscles, 696 ; proportion of compo- nents of, in health, 697; purposes of, 698 ; total amount of in body, 724 Structure of Red Corpuscles, 143, 144 ; form of corpuscles, 145, 146 ; size of corpuscles, 146 ; chemical constitution of corpuscles, 147 ; origin of, from each other, 148 ; first production of, in embryo, 149; purposes of, in animal economy, 150 Colourless corpuscles, 151, 152; their uses in the economy, 153—159 Serum, composition of, 697 ; milky, 697 e Coagulation of, 699—705 ; due to fibrine alone, 117, 118, 699 ; an act of vitality, 118, 700,701; causes influencing, 701, 702 ; proportions of serum and clot, 703 ; buffy coat, causes of, 704, 705 ; composition of, 116 a ; artificially pro- ducible, by retarding coagulation, 699 Pathological changes in, 706—708 ; nor- mal proportion of chief constituents, 706; influence of abstinence and hemorrhage, 707 ; increase of fibrine in inflammation, 158, 707 a, 802 ; de- ficiency of fibrine in fever and hemor- rhagic diseases, 707 b ; increase of cor- puscles in plethora, 707 c ; diminution in chlorosis, anajmia, &c, 707 c ; de- crease of albumen in Bright's disease, 707 d ', general depravation of, 708 ; imperfect elaboration of, in tuberculous cachexia, 807 Changes produced in, by respiration, 769— 772; difference of arterial and venous blood, 769 ; excretion of carbonic acid from, 769 ; absorption of oxygen by, 766 ; gases extracted from, 770 ; change of colour, causes of, 771, 772 ; aeration of, by general surface, 768 Organisation of, 118, 700, 796 Mo vement of through vcsselsjscc Circulation Blood-discs, sec Corpuscles Blood-vessels, sec Arteries, Capillaries, and Veins