CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



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Distinctive characters of living and dead bodies . . .1 



Living substance, food and waste 4 



Protoplasm and the physiological unit 5 



Histological differentiation and physiological division of labour. 



Tissues and functions 6 



The two chief classes of tissues ........ 6 



Muscular and nervous tissues 7 



Tissues of digestion and excretion 7 



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



The blood and the vascular system 8 



The main problems of physiology 9 



BOOK I. 



BLOOD. THE TISSUES OF MOVEMENT. 

 THE VASCULAR MECHANISM. 



CHAPTER T. 

 Blood. 

 13. The general work of the blood 13 



SECTION I. 

 The Clotting of Blood. 



§ 14. The phenomena of clotting 



§ 15. The characters of fibrin 



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

 § 17. Serum-albumin: its characters ..... 

 § 18. The circumstances which affect the rapidity of clotting 



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