610 



INDEX 



Microscope, invention of, 15 



Milk, formation of, 331 



Milk-sugar, 112 



Mimosa, electrical stimulation of, 426 



mechanical stimulation of, 380 



movement of, 227 



narcosis of, 374 

 Mind and matter, 34 



Egyptian doctrine of, 7 

 Minimum of stimulus, 350 



of temperature, 288, 395 



of vital conditions, 349 

 Mitosis, 193 

 Molecule, 209 

 Mollusca, 317 

 Monera, 66, 300, 312, 316 

 Monism, 34, 38, 40, 41 

 Monosaccharids, 110 

 Movement, amoeboid, 234, 284, 560 



as characteristic of life, 4, 7 



Brown ian, 4, 220 



by change of cell-turgor, 225 



by change of specific gravity, 229 



by contraction and expansion, 233 



by growth, 233 



by secretion, 231 



by swelling of cell-wall, 222 



ciliary, 247, 570 



kinds of, 219 



muscular, 240 



passive, 219 

 Moulds, adaptation of, to salt solutions, 



184 



Mucigen,l70, 333 

 Mucin, 108, 113, 171, 333 

 Mucous cells, 170, 333 



metamorphosis, 332 

 Mucus, 171, 332 



secretion of, 169 

 Midler, Johannes, 20 

 Multiplier, 258 

 Mummification, 324 

 Mummy wheat, 130 

 Musca, muscle fatigue of, 463 



origin of fat in larvae of, 164 

 Muscinece, 316 

 Muscle, action current of, 427 



chemical stimulation of, 368 



contraction of, 244, 558, 565 



contraction of, in absence of oxygen, 

 286 



electrical stimulation of, 413, 415, 

 420, 427 



expansion of, 246 



fatigue of, 461 



galvanic current of, 267 



haemoglobin in, 286 



irritability of, 15, 17 



mechanical stimulation of, 384, 388 



metabolism of, 427 



metabolism of tetanised, 388 



narcosis of, 375 



photic stimulation of, 402 



Muscle, polar excitation of, 415, 420 



production of heat by, 427 



recovery of fatigued, 465 



rigor mortis of, 133 



secondary results of fatigue of, 467 



source of energy of, 553 



thermal stimulation of, 394 



work of, 246 

 Muscle-albumin, 107 



-fibre, 240 



histolysis of, 322 



optical properties of, 98, 243, 245, 

 559 



structure of cross-striated, 242 



structure of smooth, 241 

 Muscle-fibrilla, 241 

 Muscle-segment, 243 

 Myograph, 424 

 Myoid, 241 

 Myopodia, 252 

 Myosin, 107, 324 

 Myxomycetes, 72 



action of oxygen upon, 369 



chemotaxis of, 430 



development of, 74 



movement of, in absence of oxygen, 

 284 



phototaxis of, 449 



protoplasmic streaming in, 239 



rheotaxis of, 444 



thermotaxis of, 452 



NARCOTICS, 337, 371, 469 



Natural science and metaphysics, 39 



purpose of, 1 



Nature, philosophy of, 20, 140 

 Necrobiosis, 135, 319 

 Necrosis, 320, 324, 398 

 Neef's hammer, 411 

 Neovitalism, 31, 44, 45, 46 

 Nerve, centripetal and centrifugal, 579, 

 584 



chemical stimulation of, 371 



conduction in, 360 



electrical stimulation of, 415 



fatigue of, 461 



galvanic current of, 267 



polar excitation of, 415, 421 



pressure-paralysis of, 389 



sensibility of, 18 

 Nerve-endings, 584 

 Nerve-fibre, 581 

 Neuro-muscular cell, 578 

 Neuron, 581 

 Nistisformativvs, 19 

 Nitetta, action of temperature upon, 



393 



Nitrogen, excretion of, in urine, 175 

 Nitrogen-bacteria, 140, 274 

 Nitrogen-equilibrium, 275, 365 

 Nitroglycerine, decomposition of, 124, 



215, 484 

 Nitromonas, 140 



