Patent medicine, action of the United
States government in regard to,
143.

Pawlow, Professor, 180, 184.
Peristaltic action, object of, 178.
Perspiration, manufacture of, 220.
composition of, 221.
insensible, 222.
sensible, 223.

relation of, to taking cold, 223.
Phagocyte, as studied in frog, 293.

description of work of, 294-297-
effect of alcohol on, 298-304.
where manufactured, 302.
Philadelphia, yellow fever epidemic in,
238.

Pink eye, how avoided, 235.
Pittsburg, typhoid fever in, 162, 163.
Plants, source of nourishment of, 150.
Plasma, description of, 87.

what it receives from lymph, 92.

Plexus, description of, 289.
Ponape, the island of, 242.

Poole, Ernest, 121.

Posture, importance of, 5.

correct standing, 7, 8.

at school desk, 9.

Proteid, use of, in the body, 150, 151.
disposal of surplus of, 193.

Pulse beat, testing of, 59.

to increase rapidity of, 60–62.
why followed by the doctor, 62.
what shown by, 69, 70.
Pylorus, location and work of, 157.
how affected by soft and hard food,
157, 158.

Redding, Cyrus, 139.

Ribs, shape of, changed by lacing, 196.
Riis, Jacob, 241.

Rome, residence of Galen, 68.
Royal Society of London, Philosophical
Transactions of, 220.

Russia and prohibition, 212.

St. Louis Wholesale Liquor Associa-
tion, 137.

Sake, use of, 205.

Saliva, how increase flow of, 180.
value of, 181, 182.

Salivary glands, 180.
Schmidt, Dr. F. A., 10.
School desk, danger from, 9.
Shoes, affecting shape of foot, 43.
size of, required, 43, 44.

Skeleton, dependence of, on muscle
and ligament, 30.

Skin, facts about, 218-225.

uninjured by heat, 218, 219.
structure of, 221.

work of, how interfered with, 221.
condition of, in health, 222.

power of, to heal itself, 222.
Smallpox, the prevention of, 242, 243.
Soldiers, connection of, with eating
experiments, 144.

treatment of, 145.

condition of, at close of experi-
ments, 145.

Sphygmograph, value of, 98, 99.
Spinal column, importance of, 35, 36.
Stagg, A. A., 57.

Starch, in beans and in potatoes, 186.
effect of cooking on, 186.

effect of saliva on, 186.
Stegomyia, a mosquito, 238.
Stomach, use of bismuth in the study
of, 154.

study of, through the X-ray, 154–
161.

appearance of, 155, 156.

action of, during digestion, 156.
contents of, after fifteen minutes,