CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGE 



1-3. Distinctive characters of living and dead bodies .... 1 



4. Living substance, food and waste ....... 4 



5. Protoplasm and the physiological unit 5 



6. Histological differentiation and physiological division of labour. 



Tissues and functions 6 



7. The two chief classes of tissues 6 



8. Muscular and nervous tissues 7 



9. Tissues of digestion and excretion . . . . . . .7 



10. Organs. Muscles and nerves of the organs of nutrition ... 8 



11. The blood and the vascular system 8 



$ 12. The main problems of physiology 9 



BOOK I. 



BLOOD. THE TISSUES OF MOVEMENT. 

 THE VASCULAR MECHANISM. 



CHAPTER I. 

 BLOOD. 



13. The general work of the blood 13 



SECTION I. 

 THE CLOTTING OF BLOOD. 



14. The phenomena of clotting 15 



15. The characters of fibrin 17 



16. The features of serum. Paraglobulin: its characters . . .18 



17. Serum-albumin: its characters 19 



18. The circumstances which affect the rapidity of clotting . . .20 



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