TABLE OF CONTENTS 



SECTION I. 

 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MUSCLE AND NERVE. 



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Chapter I. — The Phenomenon of Contraction 17 



The Histological Structure of the Muscle Fiber, 18. — Its Appearance by Polarized 

 Light, 19. — The Extensibility and Elasticity of Muscular Tissue, 20. — The Inde- 

 pendent Irritability of Muscle, 24.— Definition and Enumeration of Artificial Stim- 

 uh, 24. — The Duration of the Simple Muscle Contraction, 26. — The Curve of a 

 Simple Muscle Contraction, 26. — The Latent Period, 27. — The Phases of Short- 

 ening and Relaxation, 27. — Isotonic and Isometric Contractions, 28. — Maximal 

 and Submaximal Contractions, 29. — Effect of Temperature upon the Simple Con- 

 traction, 29. — Effect of Veratrin on the Simple Contraction, 31. — Contracture, 32. 

 — Fatigue, the Treppe, and Effect of Rapidly Repeated Stimulation, 35. — The 

 Wave of Contraction and Means of Measuring, 36. — Idiomuscular Contractions, 

 36. — The Energy Liberated during a Muscular Contraction, 36. — The Propor- 

 tional Amount of this Energy UtiUzed in Work, 38. — The Curve of Work and 

 the Absolute Power of a Muscle, 39. — Definition of Tetanus or Compound Con- 

 traction, 42. — The Summation of Contractions, 44. — Discontinuity of the Proc- 

 esses of Contraction in Tetanus, 44.— The Muscle-tone, 44. — The Rate of Stimu- 

 lation Necessary for Complete Tetanus, 45. — The Tetanic Nature of Voluntary 

 Contractions, 46. — The Ergograph, 48. — Results of Ergographie Experiments, 

 49. — Sense of Fatigue, 50. — Muscle Tonus, 50. — Rigor Mortis and Rig9r Ca- 

 loris, 52. — The Occurrence and Structure of Plain Muscle Tissue, 54.; — Distinctive 

 Properties of Plain Muscle, 55. — The General Properties of Cardiac Muscular 

 Tissue, 57. — The Contractility of Cilia and Their General Properties, 57. 



Chapter IL — Chemistry of Muscle. The Chemical Change.s of 

 Contraction and Rigor. Theories of Muscular Contrac- 

 tion. Exercise .\nd Strain <K) 



The Composition of Muscle Plasma, 60. — The Proteins of Muscle, 60.— The 

 Carbohydrates of Muscle, 62. — Lactic Acid in Muscle, 63. — The Nitrogenous Ex- 

 tractives of Muscle, 63. — Pigments of Muscle, 64. — Enzymes of Muscle, 64. — Inor- 

 ganic Constituents of Muscle, 64. — The Chemical Changes in Muscle during 

 Contraction, 65. — The Chemical Changes during Rigor Mortis, 68. — The Relation 

 of the Waste Products to Fatigue, the Chemical Theory of Fatigue, 69. — Theories 

 of the Mechanism of the Contraction of Muscle, 71. — The Effects of Exerei.se on 

 the Condition of the Muscle, 73. — Muscular Strain, 75. 



Chapter IIL — The Phenomenon of Conduction. Properties of 



THE Nerve Fiber 77 



General Statement Regarding Property of Conductivity, 77. — Structure of 

 the Nerve Fiber, 77. — Function of the Myelin Sheath, 78. — Chemistry of the 

 Nerve Fiber, 79. — The Nerve Trunk an Anatomical Unit Only, 79. — Definition 

 of Afferent and Efferent Nerve Fibers, 81. — Classification of Nerve Fibers, 82. 

 — -The Bell-Magendie Law of the Composition of the Anterior and the Posterior 

 Roots of the Spinal Nerves, 83. — Cells of Origin of the Anterior and Posterior 

 Root Fibers, 85. — Origin of the Afferent and Efferent Fibers in the Cranial Nerves, 

 85. — Independent Irritability of Nerve Fibers, Artificial Nerve Stimuli, 86. — 

 Du Bois-Reymond's Law of Stimulation by the Galvanic Current, 88. — Electro- 

 tonus, 89.— Pflijger's Law of Stimulation, 90. — The Opening and the Closing 

 Tetanus, 92. — Mode of Stimulating Nerves in Man, 92. — Motor Points of Muscles, 

 93. — Physical and Physiological Poles, 95. 



Chapter IV. — The Electrical Phenomena Shown by Nerve and 



Muscle 97 



The Demarcation Current, 97. — Construction of the Galvanometer, 99. — Con- 

 struction of the Capillary Electrometer, 102. — Non-polarizable Electrodes, 102. — 

 Action Current or Negative Variation, 104. — Monophasic and Diphasic Action 

 Currents, 105. — The Rheoscopic Frog Preparation, 106. — Relation of Action 

 Current to the Contraction Wave and Nerve Impulse, 107. — The Electrotonic 

 Currents, 109. 



