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Comparative 375 



Historical, 375 



PHYSIOLOGY OF ANIMAL HEAT. 



Sources of Heat 377 



Animals with Constant and with Variable Temperature, 381 



Methods of Estimating the Temperature: Thermometry, 382 



Temperature-topography, 385 



Influences Affecting the Temperature of Individual Organs, 387 



Measurement of the Volume of Heat: Calorimetry, 389 



Heat-conduction of Animal Tissues. Expansibility of Animal Tissues by 



Heat, 390 



Variations in the Mean Bodily Temperature, 391 



Regulation of the Temperature, 394 



Heat-balance, 399 



Variations in Heat-production, : 400 



Relation of Heat-production to the Work Performed by the Body, 400 



Accommodation to Variations in Temperature, 402 



Accumulation of Heat in the Body, 403 



Fever, 404 



Artificial Elevation of the Bodily Temperature, 406 



Employment of Heat, 407 



Post-mortem Elevation of Temperature, 407 



The Influence of Cold upon the Body, 408 



Artificial Reduction of the Bodily Temperature in Animals, 409 



Employment of Cold, 411 



The Temperature of Inflamed Parts 411 



Historical. Comparative 41 * 



PHYSIOLOGY OF METABOLISM. 



Scope of Metabolism, 413 



SYNOPSIS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SUBSTANCES USED AS FOOD. 



Water. Examination of Drinking-water 413 



Structure and Secretory Activity of the Mammary Glands, 417 



Milk and Milk-preparations, 4*9 



Eggs, ; 423 



Meat and Meat-preparations, 4 2 3 



Vegetable Foods, 426 



Condiments: Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Alcoholic Drinks and Spices, 428 



PHENOMENA AND LAWS OF METABOLISM. 



Metabolic Equilibrium, 43 



Metabolism in the State of Starvation, 439 



Metabolism with an Exclusive Diet of Meat, Albumin or Gelatin 442 



An Exclusive Diet of Fats or Carbohydrates, 443 



Laws Governing Metabolism on a Mixed Diet of Meat and Fat or Carbohy- 

 drates, 443 



Origin of the Fat in the Body, 444 



Deposition of Fat and Flesh in the Body (Hypernutrition) . Corpulence 



and the Means for its Correction, 445 



The Metabolism of the Tissues, 44$ 



Regeneration, 45 I 



Transplantation and Adhesion, 454 



Increase in Size and in Weight in the Process of Growth, 455 



SUMMARY OF THE CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF THE ORGANISM. 



Inorganic Constituents, 45 6 



Organic Constituents. The Proteid Bodies or Protein-Substances. The 



True Albuminous Bodies, 457 



The Albuminoid Bodies, 



Nitrogenous Glucosids, 462 



