TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The Scope and Aim of Physiology and its Relation to Allied Branches of 



Physical Science, 17 



Matter, 18 



Forces, 19 



Law of the Constancy of Energy, 23 



Animals and Plants, 25 



Kinetic Energy and Life, 28 



PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BLOOD. 



Physical Properties of the Blood, 29 



Microscopic Examination of the Blood, 31 



The Red Blood-corpuscles (Erythrocytes) , 34 



Preservation of Red Blood-corpuscles, 36 



Permeability of Erythrocytes. Isotonia (Hyperisotonia and Hypisotonia) . 



Demonstration of the Stroma. Lake coloration of the Blood, 37 



Form, Size, and Number of Erythrocytes in Different Animals, 40 



Development of Red Blood-corpuscles, 41 



Destruction of Red Blood-corpuscles, 43 



The White Blood-corpuscles (Leukocytes) , the Blood-plates and Elementary 



Granules, 45 



Abnormal Changes in the Red and White Blood-corpuscles, 50 



Chemical Constituents of the Red Blood-corpuscles, 51 



Preparation of Hemoglobin-crystals, 52 



Quantitative Estimation of the Hemoglobin _ 52 



Employment of the Spectroscope for Hemoglobin Examination; Oxygen- 

 combinations of Hemoglobin: Oxyhemoglobin and Methemoglobin, ... 55 



Carbon-monoxid Hemoglobin and Carbon-monoxid Poisoning, 58 



Other Hemoglobin-combinations, 59 



Decomposition of Hemoglobin, 60 



Hemin (Hematin Chlorid) ; Identification of Blood by Means of the Hemin- 



test, 61 



Hematoidin, 63 



The Colorless Proteid of Hemoglobin, 63 



Proteid Bodies in the Stroma 63 



Remaining Constituents of the Red Blood-corpuscles, 64 



Chemical Constituents of the Leukocytes, 64 



The Blood-plasma and Its Relation to the Serum, 65 



Fibrin: Its General Properties; Coagulation, 65 



General Phenomena Attending Coagulation, 67 



Nature of Coagulation, 68 



Source of the Fibrinogenous Substances, 70 



Relations of the Red Blood-corpuscles to Fibrin-formation, 71 



Chemical Constitution of the Blood-plasma and the Serum, 72 



THE GASES OF THE BLOOD. 



Absorption of Gases by Solid Bodies and by Fluids, 74 



Diffusion of Gases: Absorption of Gaseous Mixtures, 75 



Separation of the Gases of the Blood, 7 6 



Quantitative Estimation of the Gases of the Blood, 77 



Special Facts Concerning the Gases of the Blood 78 



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