INDEX
- Battery, 38
- Bernard, Claude, reference to, 101
- Biceps, the, 16
- Biedermann, fluid of, 1 35
- Blood, corpuscles of, 89: gases in the, 124
- Body compared to machine, 21
- Bowman, Sir William, sarcous elements of, 94
- Break of railway myograph, 64
- Casein, 137
- Cells, 91
- Chronograph, 58
- Cilia, 90
- Cold-blooded animals, 23
- Contractions, voluntary, 77
- Crystallisation, 9
- Curara, experiment with, 100
- Darwin, H., reference to, 60
- De la Rue, reference to, 161
- Dewar, reference to, 7, 161, 175
- Dobie, the line of, in muscle, 95
- D'ons-en-Bray, anemometer of, 49
- Du Bois Reymond, reference to, 43, 131, 164, 179, 193
- Dulmmel, reference to, 57
- Elasticity, 83, 85
- Electric fishes, 180
- Electric organs, 190
- Electrification of living beings, 45
- Electrodes, 36, 165
- Electro-magnet, 14
- End-plates, 98
- Engelmann, discs of, 95
- Ether, the, 5
- Eye, electrical phenomena of, 174
- Faraday, reference to, 1, 123
- Faradic electricity, 41
- Fat in milk, 139
- Fick, work-gatherer of, 147; on muscle-work, 146
- Food, nature of, 131, 141
- Frog, currents in eye of, 174
- Frog, muscles in leg of, 17
- Frog-interrupter, 30
- Galvani, reference to, 178
- Galvanometer, 162
- Gastrocnemius muscle, 23
- Glycogen in muscle, 129
- Graphic method, 47
- Gymnotus, 183, 186
- Haller, reference to, 86
- Heart, electric changes in, 171; mode of keeping alive, 134
- Heat in muscle, 116, 120, 146
- Helmholtz, reference to, 104, 129
- Hunter, John, reference to, 184
- Induced electricity, 42
- Induction coil, 43
- Key, 39
- Krause, membrane of, 95
- Kronecker, frog-heart apparatus of, 133
- Kühne, reference to, 174
- Latent period, 68
- Life, nature of, 3, 25
- Magellan, reference to, 50
- Malapterurus, 187
- Man-current, 176
- Marey, reference to, 50
- Matteucci, reference to, 173
- Milk, 137, 140
- Movements, chemical, 7; molecular, 4; physical, 4; reflex, 195; voluntary, 194
- Muscle, breathing of, 122; chemical changes in, 121; chemical substances in, 141; elasticity of, 83; electric currents in, 167, 168; energy liberated by, 146; as an engine, 142; effects of exercise on, 158; extensibility of, 82; fatigue of, 152; irritability of, 86; respiratory exchanges in, 127; rhythmic movements of, 132; sound of, 80; structure of, 192; tetanus of, 71, 73; twitch of, 29, 67, 75; wear and tear of, 144; action of, in gases, 128; work done by, 149
- Muscle-bell, the, 27, 28
- Muscles of arm, 16
- Myograph of Fick, 34; the railway, 61; the spring, 106
- Negative variation, 169, 172
- Nerve-cells, 97, 188
- Nerve-current, nature of, 110; measurement of rapidity of,
105
- Nerve-muscle preparation, 28
- Nerve, structure of, 96
- Nobili, reference to, 179
- Oersted, reference to, 179
- Pendulum, the, 54
- Rutherford, thermometer of, 50
- Sanderson, Burdon, reference to, 112
- Schäfer, reference to, 94
- Sclater, P. L., reference to, 192
- Spring, vibrating, for tetanus, 69
- Steel cylinders, 11
- Sugar in milk, 138
- Temperature, effects of, on life of tissues, 24
- Tetanus, 71, 73
- Thermal junctions, 114; pile, 115
- Thunderer fish, 187
- Time, measurement of, 51
- Tissues, breathing of, 124
- Torpedo, the, 181
- Torula cerevisiæ, 8
- Tuning-forks, 10, 58
- Vacuum Tube, 45
- Volla, reference to, 178
- Voluntary motions, time in, 79
- Vril, 180
- Waller, Augustus, reference to, 171
- Warm-blooded animals, 24
- Watt, James, reference to, 87
- Wiedemann, galvanometer of, 162
- Wimshurst, machine of, 45
- Wollaston, reference to, 80
- Yeast, 8
- Young, Thomas, reference to, 55
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