XiV CONTENTS. 



SECTION 



219. Storage of Heat in the Body, 450 



220. Fever, 450 



221. Artificial Increase of the Temperature, 452 



222. Employment of Heat, 453 



223. Increase of Temperature post mortem, . . . . . . . 453 



224. Action of Cold on the Body, 454 



225. Artificial Lowering of Temperature, ....... 455 



226. Employment of Cold, 456 



227. Heat of Inflamed Parts, 457 



228. Historical and Comparative, . . 457 



VII. PHYSIOLOGY OF THE METABOLIC PHENOMENA 

 OF THE BODY. 



229. General View of Food-Stuffs, 458 



230. Structure and Secretion of the Mammary Glands, .... 461 



231. Milk and its Preparations, 464 



232. Eggs, . . . . . 468 



233. Flesh and its Preparations, .469 



234. Vegetable Foods, .- 471 



235. Condiments Tea and Alcohol, 473 



PHENOMENA AND LAWS OF METABOLISM. 



236. Equilibrium of the Metabolism, . . . . . . . . 476 



237. Metabolism during Hunger and Starvation, . . . . . . 482 



238. Metabolism during a purely Flesh Diet, 485 



239. A Diet of Fat or of Carbohydrates, 486 



240. Mixture of Flesh and Fat, . .486 



241. Origin of Fat in the Body, 487 



242. Corpulence, 488 



243. The Metabolism of the Tissues, . ... . . . 490 



244. Regeneration of the Tissues, ..... 493 



245. Transplantation of the Tissues, ...... 497 



246. Increase in Size and Weight during Growth, 497 



GENERAL VIEW OF THE CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF 

 THE ORGANISM. 



247. Inorganic Constituents, 499 



248. Organic Constituents Proteids, 500 



249. The Animal and Vegetable Proteids and their Properties, . . .502 



250. The Albuminoids, 504 



251. The Fats, ........ 



252. The Carbohydrates* 511 



253. Historical Retrospect, . 5 14 



