CONTENTS 



PART I. EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY 

 ELEMENTARY COURSE. By D. NOEL PATON 



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Introduction ......... 3 



SECTION I. THE SPECIAL SENSES ... 5 



LESSON I. Sensations connected with the Skin Touch 



Pain Temperature ..... 6 



,, II. Taste Smell Hearing Voice Proprioceptive 



Mechanisms (Muscle- Joint Sense Laby- 

 rinthine Mechanism) .... 9 



III. Vision Structure of Eye Vision with one Eye 13 



,, IV. Field of Vision Vision with two Eyes . . 22 



,, V. Modified Visual Perceptions Time taken in 



Visual Perception . . . . .26 



SECTION II. NERVE AND MUSCLE . . 29 



LESSON VI. Influence of Brain on Muscles Influence of 

 Spinal Cord on Muscles Stimulation of 

 Nerve 29 



VII. Action of Nerves on Skeletal Muscle . . 32 



VIII. Stimulation of Nerve and Muscle in Man 



Muscular Contraction . . . .35 



,, IX. Course of Muscular Contraction . . .38 



,, X. Influence of various factors upon Muscular 



Contraction . . . . . .43 



,, XI. Effect of successive stimuli on Muscle Contrac- 



tion of Human Muscle Contraction of Cardiac 

 and Visceral Muscle Passage of a Nervous 

 Impulse ....... 48 



SECTION III. CIRCULATION . . .54 

 LESSON XII. Heart Structure Cardiac Impulse . . 54 



,, XIII. Circulation in the Blood-vessels Pulse and 



Blood Pressure ..... 56 



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