CONTENTS 



Page 



Preface vii 



Introduction xi 



PART I. PLANTS AND INVERTEBRATES 



Chapter 



I. Effects of Inanition on Plants . i 



II. Effects on the Protozoa 15 



III. Effects on the Higher Invertebrates 26 



PART II. VERTEBRATES 



IV. Effects on the Body as a Whole (Total Inanition) 67 



V. Effects on the Body as a Whole (Partial Inanition) 98 



VI. Effects on the Integument, Adipose Tissue and Mammary Gland . . . 117 



VII. Effects on the Skeleton 133 



VIII., Effects on the Teeth 156 



IX. Effects on the Musculature 162 



X. Effects on the Brain 173 



XI. Effects on the Spinal Cord 19 1 



XII. Effects on the Peripheral Nervous System 203 



XIII. Effects on the Visual Apparatus 210 



XIV. Effects on the Heart and Blood Vessels 222 



XV. Effects on the Blood 238 



XVI. Effects on the Lymph and Lymphatic Glands 261 



XVII. Effects on the Spleen 269 



XVIII. Effects on the Thymus 285 



XIX. Effects on the Alimentary Canal 3°° 



XX. Effects on the Liver 3 2 4 



XXI. Effects on the Pancreas and Salivary Glands 345 



XXII. Effects on the Respiratory Tract. Lungs, Trachea and Larynx ... 361 



XXIII. Effects on the Urinary Tract. Kidneys and Bladder 37° 



XXIV. Effects on the Female Reproductive Tract 389 



XXV. Effects on the Male Reproductive Tract 403 



XXVI. Effects on the Suprarenal Glands 417 



XXVII. Effects on the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands 435 



XXVIII. Effects on the Hypophysis 448 



PART III. CONCLUSIONS, TABLES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 



XXIX. Conclusions 457 



Tables 1 to 13 462 



Bibliography 479 



Index 587 



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