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Index:Life in Motion.djvu

Title Life in Motion
Author John Gray McKendrick
Year 1892
Publisher A. and C. Black
Location London
Source djvu
Progress Done—All pages of the work proper are validated
Transclusion Fully transcluded
Validated in December 2015

CONTENTS

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LECTURE 1

Introduction—Movement in general—Molecular movements—Muscles—Organ and function—Muscular contraction 1

LECTURE II

Myograph—Electricity as stimulus—Action of nerve—Continuous current—Interrupted current—Induction coil—Graphic method—Time in physiological phenomena—Chronographs—Study of contraction—Latent period 33

LECTURE III

Study of tetanus or cramp—Simple contraction and muscle curve—Muscle sound—Elasticity of muscle—Inherent irritability of muscle—White blood corpuscles—Cilia—Structure of muscle— End-plates in muscle 69

LECTURE IV

Action of a nerve—Rapidity of nerve-current—Nature of nerve-current—Analogy with electric current—Nerveless animals—Heat in muscle—Muscles liberate mechanical energy and heat—Chemical changes in muscle 102

LECTURE V

Source of muscular energy—Food stuffs—Milk—Muscle as an engine—Repair of muscle—Ratio of mechanical energy and heat—Fatigue of muscle—Athletics 131

LECTURE VI

Electrical phenomena of muscle—Current of resting muscle—Current of acting muscle—Negative variation—Animal electricity—Electric fishes—Resemblance of electric organ to muscle—Relation of muscular motion to nervous system—Conclusion 161
Index 201
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