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Uninterrupted progress of Physiology 1 



Importance of good specimens . . 2 



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specimens 



Magnifying powers employed 

 Living and non-living . 

 Changes occurring during life 



Of the Matter of Living Beings. 



Living particles . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 



Of obtaining living particles from air . . . . . ; 5 



Two kinds of matter in a living particle . . . . . . 5 



Two kinds of living particles . . . . . . . . 5 



An elementary part . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 



First stage of being of every living thing . . . . . . 6 



Form, structure, colour, mechanism . . . . . . 7 



Conversion of the non-living into the living . . . . 7 



Living matter or bioplasm . . . . . . . . . . 8 



Protoplasm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 



Death of bioplasm . . . . 9 



Products of the death of bioplasm . . . . . . 10 



Bioplasm having died cannot live again . . . . . . ] 1 



A crystal may be re-crystallised . . . . . . 11 



A magnet may be re-magnetised . . . . . . 11 



A dead thing cannot be re-vitalised. . . . . . 12 



Of Bioplasm. 



Different kinds of bioplasm . . . . . . , . . 12 



Origin of bioplasm . . . . . . . . . . 12 



The changes of bioplasm and its conversion into tissue . . 13 



Different tissues in the body . . . . . . . 14 



Young growing tissues contain much water . . . . 15 



All organs come from bioplasm . . . . . . . . 15 



