CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. Introduction — General Characteristics of Liv- 

 ing Matter i 



II. The Cellular Organization of Living Matter . 14 



III. General Characters of Living Organisms . . 25 



IV. General Peculiarities of Protoplasm as a Physi- 

 cal System 48 



V. Physical Nature of Protoplasmic Structure: Im- 

 portance of Surface Conditions 66 



VI. Protoplasmic Structure {Continued): Permea- 

 bility and Other Properties of Protoplasmic 

 Membranes 98 



VII. General Conditions Determining the Properties 



OF Protoplasmic Membranes 132 



VIII. Relation of the Inorganic Salts of the Medium 



to the Physiological Processes in Protoplasm 151 



IX. General Physiological Action of Lipoid-Alter- 



ant and Surface- Active Substances . . . . 187 



X. Catalysis in Relation to the Chemical Pro- 

 cesses in Living Matter 217 



XL Electrical and Other Factors in the Catalytic 



Action of Protoplasm 235 



XII. Stimulation and Transmissioisi of Excitation in 



Protoplasm 259 



XIII. Bioelectric Phenomena 299 



XIV. Membrane Changes during Stimulation . . .337 



XV. The PHYSico-CnEivncAL Basis of TRANsmssiON in 



Nerve and Other Protoplasmic Systems . . . 379 



Index f j f /7» ^^J 



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