CONTENTS 



PAGE 



INTRODUCTION . ' 17 



PAET I. 



EXPERIMENTAL GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY. 



CHAPTER I. 



CYTOLOGY. 



I. Algae or Green Plants of Low Order 21 



II. The Yeast Plant 26 



III. Protozoa or One-celled Animals 28 



IV. Normal Ciliary Motion 31 



V, Ciliary Motion Modified by the Influence of CO 2 and Anaesthetics 33 



VI. To Determine the Amount of Work Done by Cilia ...... 35 



CHAPTER II. 



THE GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY OP MUSCLE AND NERVE TISSUE. 



VII. Electric Apparatus and Units of Measurement 37 



VIII. Batteries 41 



IX. Methods of Varying the Strength of Current ...... 43 



X. Muscle-nerve Preparation 46 



XL Electric Stimulation and the Myogram .....'.. 50 



XII. The Typical Myogram, Combined Myograms, and Tetanus . 54 



XIII. The Work Done by a Muscle 55 



XIV. To Send an Electric Current into a Nerve without Response. 



FleischTs Rheonom . . -. . . ... . . ... 56 



XV. To Determine the Influence of Cathode and Anode Poles . 58 

 XVI. Electrotonus (to Determine the Effect of a Constant Current 



upon the Irritability of a Nerve) 61 



XVII. The Law of Contraction ' 64 



XVIII. (a) The Capillary Electrometer. (6) The Method of Using It 66 



XIX. Electromotive Phenomena of Active Muscle 69 



