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Abscesses, cold, inspissation of pus in, 216; formation of, 496-49*7. Absorption, increased, of parts upon the application of stimuli, 155, 330, etc. Activity, the essential characteristic of life, 324 ; see Vital activity. Addison, Mr., on the relation between pus-, and colourless blood-corpuscles, 188, 527. Adipose Tissue. See Fat. Affinities, certain, between definite tis- sues (parts) and definite substances, 154, 15S; specific, of different exci- tants (stimuli), 332. Ague, melanaemia in, 256-257. Alae vespertitionum, smooth muscle in, 146, 147. Alveoli, of cancer, how produced, 499. Amaurosis, from capillary embolia, 244. Amyloid (lardaceous, waxy) Degenera- tion, 409-427 ; appearance of organs affected, 410; occurs in most parts of body, 411 ; of minute arteries, 416- 417 ; of liver (hepatic artery, hepatic cells), 417-418 ; its concomitants, 421 ; of digestive tract from mouth to anus (minute arteries, villi), 422 ; of kidney, (glomeruli, afferent arteries), 422 ; of lymphatic glands (minute arteries, gland cells), 425-427 ; of spleen (folli- cles), 411, 426. Amyloid Substance, its appearance, 410; two kinds of, the one analogous to vegetable starch (corpora amylacea, prostatic concretions), the other, more akin to cellulose, 411-415 ; their chemi- cal reactions, 413, 414; the latter, homogeneous, probably imported from without, 419, but independent (au- tochthonous) formation of in perma- nent cartilage, 419 ; not hitherto de- tected in blood, 419-420. Anaemia, occasioned by action of arte ries, 151. Anastomosing Corpuscles, systems of. See Juice-conveying canals, and con- nective-tissue corpuscles. Andral, on inflammation, 429. Aneurysms, how produced, 155; conver- sion of coagula of, into homogeneous, cartilaginous masses, 170. Aorta, elastic tissue of, 135, 152; mid- dle coat of, 141 ; imperfect develop- ment of, in chlorosis, 261 ; atheroma of, 398-399. Apoplexy, from leukaemia, 203 ; from capillary embolia, 244 ; from melanae- mia, 257. Arcus senilis, 388. Arnold, 53. Arrectores pilorum, 85. Arteries, distinction between small, and small veins, 86, 87-88; elastic tissue of middle coat of, 135; muscular fibre cells of middle coat of, 141-142; structure of, 141-143 ; epithelium of, 146 ; muscular tissue of, 147-151 ; contraction of, 147-151 ; rhythmical movements of, in ears ot rabbits, 147- 148 ; dilatation of, not active, but passive, and due to fatigue of walls, 149 ; fatigue of muscular coat of, 15u- 151 ; passive condition of, in so-called active hyperaemia, 151; elasticity of, 152; aneurysms of, how produced, 153 ; simple fattv degeneration of, 380, 396-397, 404; fattv usure of, 381; atheroma of, 381-382, 394-4U2 ; sclerosis and ossification of, 403 404; calcification (petrifaction) of, 406-407 ; minute — amyloid degeneration of, 416- 417. Ascherson, on stickiness of white blood- corpuscles, 184-185 ; his haptogenic membrane, 377.