CONTENTS. 



ARRANGED IN CHAPTERS AND LESSONS. 



CHAPTER I. 



(LESSON 1.) 



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Introductory General Outline of the Body ; Structural Elements of the 



Body ; the Cell 1 



CHAPTER II. 



(LESSON 2.) 

 Organs, Tissues, Cells; Epithelial Tissues; Stratified; Transitional; 



Simple 7 



CHAPTER III. 



(LESSONS 3 AND 4.) 

 Connective Tissues : Connective Tissue Proper ; Adipose Tissue or Fat ; 



Cartilage; Bone 13 



CHAPTER IV. 



(LESSONS 5, 6, AND 7.) 



The Skeleton . 23 



CHAPTER V. 



(LESSON 8.) 

 The Joints 48 



CHAPTER VI. 



(LESSONS 9, 10, AND 11.) 



Muscular Tissue : Striated or Striped ; Non-striated or Plain ; Attach- 

 ment of Muscles to Skeleton ; Prominent Muscles of the Head and 

 Trunk ; Prominent Muscles of the Limbs ...... 53 



CHAPTER VII. 

 (LESSONS 12, 13, AND 14.) 



Nervous Tissue : the Neurone or Nerve-Cell ; Anatomy of the Nervous Sys- 

 tem ; Physiology of the Nervous System ; Reflexes .... 74 



NOTE. In most training schools in America instruction in class is given from 

 October 1 to June 1, or for thirty-eight consecutive weeks; the lessons in this text- 

 book can be conveniently mastered in the first year's course, taken in the manner 

 indicated in these introductory contents. 



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