xiv CONTENTS. 
CHEMISTRY OF RESPIRATION. 
By M. S. PEMBREY. 
Historical— Respiratory Changes in Air— Methods— Conditions affecting Respiratory 
Exchange — Cold -Blooded Animals— Fishes — Warm - Blooded Animals— In- 
fluence of External Temperature— Of Muscular Activity— Of Food— Of 
Size of Animal — Of Time of Day — Of Age — Respiration by Skin 
in Amphibia— In Mammals— Effects of Varnishing Skin — Respiration in 
Alimentary Canal— Respiration of Foetus— Of Embryo— The Respiration of 
Different Gases— The Respiration of Vitiated Air — Asphyxia— Exchange of 
Gases between Blood and Air — Frequency of Respiration in Man — In Animals 
— Changes in Composition of Air — Effect of Respiration on Blood — Gases of 
Blood— Methods— Arterial and Venous Blood— Condition of Gases in Blood- 
Causes of Gaseous Exchange between Blood and Air— Exchange of Gases 
between Blood and Tissues— Causes of such Exchange . . . page 692 
ANIMAL HEAT. 
By M. S. PEMBREY. 
Thermometry— "Warm and Cold Blooded Animals — Temperature of Man and other 
Warm-Blooded Animals — Hibernation — Influence of Various Conditions upon 
Temperature — Time of Day — Age— Muscular Work — Mental Work — Food — 
Sleep — Seasons — Race — Menstruation and Pregnancy — Individual Peculiarities 
— Temperature of Surroundings — Extreme Heat and Cold — Baths — Drugs — 
Temperature of Different Parts of Body — Of Arterial and Venous Blood — Of 
the Skin — Regulation of Temperature — Heat Production — Historical — Relation 
to Chemical Changes — Specific Heat of Body — Seats of Heat Production — 
Measurement of Heat Production — Calorinietry — Respiratory Exchange as 
Measure of Heat Production — Heat Production in Cold-Blooded Animals 
— Regulation of Heat Loss — Influence of Size of Body — Influence of Nervous 
System — Development of Power of Regulation — Temperature of Body after 
Death page 785 
METABOLISM. 
By E. A. SCHAFER. 
Introductorv — Balance of Nutrition — Composition of Foodstuffs — Heat Value of 
Foodstuffs — Necessary Amount of Proteid — Special Constituents of Diet — 
Their Effect on Metabolism — Gelatin — Carbohydrates — Fats — Inorganic Sub- 
stances — Metabolism in Inanition — With purely Proteid Diet — Relative Meta- 
bolic Activity of Tissues — Nitrogenous Metabolism — In Muscle — In the Liver 
— Effect of Muscular Activity on Proteid Metabolism — Metabolism of Carbo- 
hydrates — Glycogen Formation — Phloridzin Diabetes — Glycogenesis — Puncture 
Diabetes — Influence of Pancreas on Carbohydrate Metabolism — Metabolism of 
Fat — Source and Formation of Fat — Action of Liver on Metabolism of 
Fat page 868 
THE INFLUENCE OF THE DUCTLESS GLANDS UPON 
METABOLISM— INTERNAL SECRETIONS. 
By E. A. SCHAFER. 
Introductory — The Thyroid Gland — The Pituitary Body — The Suprarenal Bodies 
— Influence of the Spleen on Metabolism ...... page 937 
Ixdex of Subjects page 963 
Index of Authors page 999 
