CONTENTS. XI 

 CHAPTER IX. 



OF RESPIRATION. 



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1. Nature of the Function, and Provisions for its Performance, . 360 



Relation of the Nervous System to the Respiratory Acts, . 374 



Respiratory Movements, ..... . . 369 



Sources of Production of Carbonic Acid in the Living Body, . 361 



Structure of the Lungs, ........ . 369 



2. Effects of Respiration on the Air, . . 384 



Circumstances affecting the Exhalation of Carbonic Acid Gas, . 388 



Exhalation and Absorption through the Lungs, ..... 400 



3. Effects of Suspension or Deficiency of Respiration, . . . 404 



Asphyxia, ....... 406 



Predisposition to Zymotic Diseases, ..... . 408 



CHAPTER X. 



OF NUTRITION. 



1. General Considerations Formative Power of Individual Parts, . . . 415 



2. Of the Balance of the Vital Economy, . 421 



With Ordinary Diet, ... 423 



In Fasting, .... .425 



On Pure Meat Diet, . . .428 



On Meat and Fat Diet, .428 



On Meat and Starch or Sugar Diet, ... . . . 429 



Disintegration of various Organic Compounds, with accompanying De- 

 velopment of Force, . . . . . . . . ... 430 



Degeneration of Tissues, . . 438 



3. Varying Activity of the Nutritive Processes, 441 



Hypertrophy; Tumors, .......... 441 



Atrophy, . 445 



Reparative Process, ........... 447 



4. Abnormal Forms of the Nutritive Process, 453 



Inflammation, ............ 454 



Emigration of White Corpuscles aoid Diapedesis of White, . . . 459 



Tuberculosis, ............ 463 



Cancer, ............... 464 



CHAPTER XL 



OF SECRETION AND EXCRETION. 



1. Of Secretion in General,. .......... 465 



Excretory Operations, .......... 466 



Metastasis of Secretion, .......... 467 



2. The Liver. Secretion of Bile, .469 



Structure and Actions of the Liver, 471 



Composition and Sources of Bile, . . . . . . . ' . 476 



Glycogenic Function of the Liver, 482 



