CHAPTER IV. 



Glycogenic Function of the Liver — Vaso Motor Nerves 

 — Claude Bernard 35 



Bernard's Early Life and Education (35) — His Productive Period (36) — 

 Work on Gastric Digestion (37) — Glycogenic Function of the Liver (37) 

 — Vaso-Motor Nerves (39) — The Action of Carbon Monoxide Gas (39) — 

 A Friend of Pasteur (40) — Domestic Troubles (40) — Made One of the "Im- 

 mortals" (40) — His Dexterity as Experimenter (41) — ^Death in 1878, 

 State B\ineral (41). 



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CHAPTER V. 



Respiration 42 



Views of the Ancients on Respiration (42) — Mechanics of Respiration (42) 

 — Boyle and His Work (43) — Robert Hooke (43) — Mayow and His Re- 

 searches (44) — Respiration Prior to the Eighteenth Century (45) — The 

 Eighteenth Century School (46) — Priestly and His Dephlogisticated Air 

 (47) — Priestly and Benjamin Franklin (48) — Priestly Comes to America 

 (48) — The Phlogiston Theory (49) — Lavoisier and His Work (49) — The 

 First to Use the Word Oxygen (49). 



CHAPTER VI. 



The Nervous System 50 



The Heart the Seat of the Soul thought the Ancient Hebrews (50) — ^The 

 Alexandrian School (50) — ^Galen Proclaimed the "Brain to be the Seat of 

 Thought and Sensation" (51) — Thomas Willis (51) — Frances Glisson Dis- 

 covers Irritability of Muscle (52) — Goll and Phrenology (52) — Bell and 

 Magendie (53) — Broca and the "Speech Center" (54) — Pathologic States 

 of the Brain and Nervous System (55) — Tuke, Benjamin Rush, and Pinel 

 (55). 



CHAPTER VII. 



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The Cell Theory 56 



Anticipated in the Seventeenth Century (56) — Bichat and His Contribu- 

 tion to the Theory (56) — The Theory Announced in 1838 (57) — Schleiden 

 and Schwann (57) — Johann Muller (58) — Vitalism (59) — Virchow's Eu- 

 logy on Muller (60) — Years of Discovery (58) — ^Virchow and "Cellular" 

 Pathology (60) — The Discovery of Protoplasm by Dujardin (61) — Proto- 

 plasm Defined by Starling (62) — The Cell Theory at the Present Time 

 (62)— The Nucleus (63) — Illustration of the Cell and Cell Division (64)— 

 The Cell in Heredity (65). ,^ 



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