INDEX 



ABSENCE of current in uninjured muscle, 



341 

 Abstraction of water, action on muscle, 



429 ; on the skin, 472, 479 

 Actinosphaerium, electrical excitation, 299 

 Action current of muscle, 359 ff. ; in man, 

 391 ; 011 the heart, 396 ; methods of 

 investigation, 362, 399, 408, 410 ; 

 phasic and decremental, 381 ; with 

 indirect excitation, 384 ; theory, 

 374 



Addition latente, 117 



Adductor muscle, of mollusca, 68 ; tonus, 

 100 ; contraction, 178, 187, 190 ; 

 polar excitation, 222 ; electromotive 

 action, 345 ; secondary electromotive 

 manifestations, 455 



After-effects of galvanic current in muscle, 

 443 ; excitatory, see opening excita- 

 tion ; inhibitory, 258 if. ; alterations 

 of excitability from, 287, 292 

 After-loading of muscle, 121 ff. 

 Alkalis, action on muscle, 104, 221 

 Alteration theory, Hermann, 351 

 Ammonia, action on secondary excitation ; 



from muscle to nerve, 413 

 Amoebae, electrical excitation, 305 

 Anabolic (katabolic) nerves, 433 

 Anaesthesia, effect on electromotivity of 



muscle, 358, 450 

 Anelectrotonus. See electrotonus 

 Anode, physiological, 212 ; relation to 

 break excitation, 214 ; inhibitory 

 action, 236, 257, 264 ; anodic closure 

 excitation of protozoa, 305 ; excita- 

 bility, 289 ; anodic (positive) polarisa- 

 tion in muscle and nerve, 445 

 Anodonta, adductor muscle, 68 ; tonus, 



100 ; electrical excitation, 187, 233 

 Apex-time, and height of apex, 115 



BAT, muscle-fibres, 32 ; distribution of 

 twitch, 63 



Beetle, structure of muscle, 34 ; contrac- 

 tion wave, 63 



CAPILLARY electrometer, 401 



Cell conduction in smooth muscle, 169 



Cell currents, theory, 508 



Cephalopoda, muscle-cells, 15 



Closure contraction (persistent), 183, 205 



Closure tetanus, secondary inefficacy, 422 



Cnidarians, epithelial muscles, 10, 11 



Cohnheim's Areas in muscle, 29 



Cold, action on muscle, 97 ; on muscle 

 current, 338 



Compensator, round, 336 



Conductivity, in muscle, 144 ff. ; in the. 

 heart, 162; in smooth muscular organs, 

 165 ; electrotonic alterations in muscle, 

 295 ; of excitatory wave, 373, in the 

 heart, 397 



Constant current, action on muscle, 174 ; 

 on protozoa, 301 



Contractility, 3 



Contraction, alteration in optical properties 

 of muscle, 49 ; rhythmical on excitation 

 with the constant current, 195 ; rhyth- 

 mical with chemical excitation, 106 



Contraction wave, variations in rapidity, 

 151 ; length, 168 



Contracture, 89 



Core-model, 448 



Cross-striation of muscle, 40 ; in state of 

 contraction, 48 



Current intensity, effect on height of 

 twitch, 69 



Current distribution, 346 



Current oscillation, excitatory action on 

 muscle, 176, 286 



DEATH of muscle, 90 ; effect on conductivity, 

 151, on excitability, 182, 343 ; rela- 

 tion to muscle current, 337, 343, 352 ; 

 to current of action, 382, 388 



Death, local, effect on polar excitation by 

 current, 218 



Decline (internal) of muscle current, 332 



Decrement of contraction wave in musclfe, 

 149 ; absence in living human subject, 

 395 



