136 INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



Properties (vital) undesirable classification of, 4 

 Psychic inertia, both anabolic and katabolic, 88 

 Purin excretion dependent on an unknown condition, 1 1 



REFRACTORY period of nerve-cells, 25 

 Respiratory centre, molecular inertia in, 32 



Mosso on inertia of, 39 

 Rhythm and functional inertia, 30 



organic in the female, 49 



male, 50, 5 1 

 Rhythmic activity and constant stimulus, 31 



SARTORIUS of frog, tremor in Biedermann's fluid of, 36 



Seeds, dry, latent life of, 46, 47 



Secretion, latent period of, 20 



Sense-organs, relation of functional inertia to, 88-93 



Stability, inherent of tissue, 53 



Status quo ante, functional inertia preserves the, 8 



Stimuli classified after Verworn, 14 



Stimulus constant, gives rise to tremors, 34, 35 

 chemical gives rise to tremor, 36 

 instantaneous gives rise to tremor, 35 

 relation to biotonus, property and phenomenon, 1 8 



Sugars, inability of certain fungi to ferment certain, 28 



Suicides, constancy of annual number of, 103 



TACHYCARDIA, inertial element in, 43 

 Time-rates and organic periodicities, 44 

 Tissues, limits set to metabolism of, 3 



set metabolic limits by functional inertia, 28 

 Tremor, post-tetanic, in muscles, 40, 41 



post-tetanic in human muscle, 41 



UNKNOWN condition in purin excretion, 1 1 

 Uterus, inertia of, 26 



VESTIGIAL organs retained by functional inertia, 71 

 metabolisms retained by functional inertia, Si 



WOMEN and anabolic inertia, 104, 105 

 YEASTS insusceptible to certain sugars. 28 



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