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GENERAL INDEX. 



LIFE continued- 



difficulty in the attainment of general laws in some 



departments of science, iii. 141. 

 difficulties which beset the investigation of the 



laws of vital action, iii. 142. 

 conditions required for the production of vital 



actions, organised structure and stimulus, iii. 



142. 

 vital properties due to the act of organisation, iii. 



142. 



II. History of opinions, iii. 143. 



abstract terms used in the earlier ages of the 

 world expressing a vague idea of a property 

 inherent in a body that exhibits it, iii. 143. 



the term life as applied by the older philosophers, 

 iii. 143. 



tendencies in the unenlightened mind from which 

 the foregoing modes of explaining vital pheno- 

 mena have resulted, iii. 144. 



modification which the forementioned doctrines 

 have undergone, iii. 144. 



distinctness of life and mind, iii. 144. 



doctrine of the vital principle put forth by Barthez, 

 vis medicatrix naturas of Hoffman and Cullen, 

 nisus formativus of Blumenbach, organic agent 

 of Dr. Prout, and organic force of Miiller, iii. 

 145. 



Hunter's doctrine of the vital principle, iii. 145. 

 precise import attached to the term, iii. 146. 

 Dr. Prout's definition, iii. 146. 



III. Nature and causes of vital action, iii. 146. 



all changes the results of the properties of matter 

 called into exercise by appropriate stimuli, iii. 

 146. 



functions groups of vital phenomena, iii. 146. 



dependence of vital actions upon external stimuli, 

 iii. 147. 



every class of organs is excited to action by its 

 particular stimuli, iii. 147. 



conditions of a more general nature requisite for 

 the performance of vital actions, as heat, light, 

 and electricity, iii. 147. 



analogy of vital phenomena to those of the uni- 

 verse at large, iii. 147. 



illustration the earth, solar system, and universe, 

 iii. 147. 



illustration the steam-engine, iii. 148. 



conclusion vital actions the properties of organs 

 called into action by appropriate stimuli, iii. 148. 



IV. Connexion between vitality and organisation, iii. 



148. 



probability that the properties which give rise to 

 vital action exist in all forms of matter, or at 

 least in all of those forms of it capable of be- 

 coming organised, iii. 148. 



total change effected in the properties of certain 

 forms of matter by their entrance into new 

 combinations due to the act of combination, 

 as analogous to vital properties being due to 

 the act of organisation, iii. 149. 



no property 'distinct from the matter which ex- 

 hibits it, or capable of being superadded to it or 

 abstracted from it, analogy of the magnetic 

 properties of iron to vitality considered, iii. 149. 



evidence of vitality being due to the properties of 

 matter in the condition of organised tissues, to 

 be found in the vital actions themselves, iii. 149. 



the assertion that the existence of organisation 

 implies a previous existence of life, considered, 

 iii. 150. 



many actions performed by living beings common 

 to them and inorganic matter, iii. 150. 



preparation of materials for organization, iii. 150. 



V. Changes in composition, iii. 151. 



formation of proximate principles, iii. 151. 

 grounds for the assumption of a distinct set of 



vital affinities, iii. 151. 



reasons for believing that the compounds with 

 which organic chemistry supplies us have a si- 

 milar constitution to that of inorganic com- 

 pounds, iii. 152. 



the arguments in favour of vital affinity drawn 

 from the spontaneous decomposition of organic 

 matter, considered, iii. 152. 

 ^ organic matter, considered, iii. 152. 



presumed impossibility of artificially pro- 

 ducing organic compounds or proximate 

 principles, considered, iii. 153. 

 artificial and natural conversion of gum, starch, 



and lignin into sugar, iii. 153. 

 catalytic action, iii. 153. 



evolution of electricity during the ordinary 

 processes of growth of plants and animals, 

 iii. 154. 



inability of chemists to produce organic com- 

 pounds probably due to their want of ac- 

 quaintance with the form or condition in 

 which their components must be brought 

 together in order to enter into the desired 

 union, iii. 154. 



conclusions deduced from the foregoing para- 

 graphs of the chapter, iii. 154. 



LIFE continued. 



VI. Vitality in a dormaut or inactive condition, iii, 



154. 

 dormant vitality of seeds, eggs, &c., iii. 155. 



length of time during which the dormant vita- 

 lity may be preserved, iii. 155. 

 dormant vitality of seeds, iii. 155. 

 dormant vitality of eggs, iii. 156. 

 agents which destroy the vitality of seeds and 

 eggs such as are calculated to produce im- 

 portant changes in their structure and com- 

 position, iii. 156. 



dormant vitality of plants and animals that 

 have attained beyond the embryo condition, iii. 

 156. 



preservation of dormant vitality due to the main- 

 tenance of normal constitution, iii. 157. 

 suspension of vital action under other circum- 

 stances, iii. 157. 

 hibernation of plants, iii. 157. 

 hibernation of animals, iii. 157. 

 animals enclosed in rocks and trees, iii. 158. 

 syncope, iii. 159. 

 suspension of vital action, in parts of the human 



body, iii. 159. 



atomic theory of Dr. Daubeny, iii. 159. 

 Ligament, accessory, of capsular, ii. 779. 

 alar, iv. 521. 



annular or orbicular, iv. 2'29. 

 of carpus, dorsal, ii. 505. 

 articular, i. 250. 

 capsular, i. 250. 

 definition, i. 250. 

 elastic, i. 251. 

 funicular, i. 251. 

 uses, i. 250. 



astragalo-scaphoid, ii. 343. 

 auriculae anterius, ii. 551. 

 poster! us, ii. 551. 

 broad, of uterus, s. 705. 

 calcaneo-scaphoid, external, ii. 343. 

 inferior, ii. 343. 

 capsular (capsula fibrosa ossis femoris), ii. 778; iv. 



574. 



coronary, of the liver, iii. 940. 

 chondro- or costo-xiphoid, iv. 1033. 

 coraco-humeral, or accessory, iv. 574, 575. 

 costo-transverse, anterior of long, iv. 1032. 



posterior, iv. 1032. 

 cotyloid (ligamemum cotyloideum, fibro-cartilagi- 



neum, labium cartilagineum acetabuli 1 ii. 777. 

 crico-thyroid, iii. 104. 



lateral, iii. 105. 

 dorsal, of tarsus, ii. 343. 

 falciform, iii. 160. 



of the livf r, iii. 936. 941. 

 gastro-lineale, iv. 771. 

 Gimbernat's, i. 5 ; s. 137. 

 gleno-humeral, or Flood's, iv. 575 

 glenoid, ii. 157; iv. 573. 

 glosso-epiglottideum, iii. 104. 

 hyo-glossal, iv. 1124. 

 hyo-epiglottideum, iii. 104. 

 iliac, posterior lateral, or lateral sacro iliac of Scem- 



mering, s. 124. 

 ilio-lumbar, s. 124. 

 interosseus, iii. 131 ; iv. 1506. 

 of tarsus, ii. 343. 

 astragalo-calcaneal, ii. 343. 

 lateral, of wrist-joint, external, iv. 1507. 

 internal, iv. 1507. 



lumbo-sacral, or sacro-vertebral, s. 121. 

 mucous, of knee, iii. 46. 

 of the notch, iv. 434. 

 odontoid, i. 732. 



phrenico-gastricum of Scemmering, iii. 941. 

 phrenico-lineale seu suspensorium, iv. 771. 

 plantar, of tarsus, ii. 343. 

 Poupart's, i. 3*. 5 ; ii. 235, 236. 757 ; s. 137. 

 pubic, anterior, s. 125. 

 posterior, s. 125. 

 superior, s. 125. 

 inferior, s. 125. 

 pyramidal or conoid, iii. 104. 

 radio-carpal, anterior, iv. 1506. 

 posterior, iv. 1506. 

 round (ligamentum teres capitis femoris, seu liga- 



mentuin inter-articulare), ii. 778. 

 round, of the liver, iii. 936. 

 sacro-coccygeal, anterior, s. 122. 



posterior, s. 122. 

 sacro-iliac, superior, s. 123. 

 anterior, s. 123. 

 posterior, s. 123. 

 deep, s. 123. 

 superficial, s. 123. 



inferior, or short, superficial, a. 



124. 



sacro-sciatic, great, s. 124. 207. 

 lesser, s. 124. 207. 



sacro-vertebral, or lumbo-sacral, s. 121. 

 stellate, iv. J032. 



