X CONTENTS 



Page 



Elastic, 103 



Fibrous, 103 



Technic, 104 



Bone, 104 



Technic, 106 



CHAPTER Vni 



The Blood, 107 



Red Blood Cells, 107 



White Blood Cells, 109 



Blood Platelets, 112 



Blood Dust, 112 



Development, 113 



Technic, 114 



CHAPTER IX 



Muscle Tissue, 115 



Involuntary Smooth Muscle, 115 



Voluntary Striated Muscle, 118 



Involuntary Striated Muscle (Heart Muscle), 123 



Development of Muscle Tissue, 126 



Technic, 129 



CHAPTER X 



Nerve Tissue, 150 



The Neurone, 130 



General Structure, 130 



The Cell Body, 130 



The Nucleus, . . ." 131 



The Cytoplasm, 132 



Neurofibrils, 132 



Perifibrillar Substance, 132 



Chromophilic Bodies, 133 



The Protoplasmic Processes or Dendrites, 135 



The Axone, 136 



Non-medullated Axones (Non-medullated Nerve Fibres), 136 



Medullated Axones (MeduUated Nerve Fibres), 137 



Theories as to Physiology of the Neurone, 146 



Significance of Degenerative Changes in the Neurone, 148 



Neuroglia, 149 



Technic, 140 



General References, 141 



PART IV.— THE ORGANS 



CHAPTER XI 



The Circulatory System, i55 



The Blood-vessel System, i55 



