

GENEBAL CONTENTS, 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGE 



The Scope of Physiology, and its Relation to the other Branches of Natural 



Science > xix 



Matter, ............. xx 



Forces, xxii 



Law of the Conservation of Energy, xxvii 



Animals and Plants, .......... xxviii 



Vital Energy and Life, xxxi 



I. PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BLOOD. 



SECTION 



1. Physical Properties of the Blood, 1 



2. Microscopic Examination of the Blood, 3 



3. Histology of the Human Red Blood-Corpuscles, ..... 7 



4. Effects of Reagents on the Blood- Corpuscles, ..... 7 



5. Preparation of the Stroma Making Blood "Lake-Coloured," . . 10 



6. Form and Size of the Blood-Corpuscles of Different Animals, . . 11 



7. Origin of the Red Blood-Corpuscles, 12 



8. Decay of the Red Blood-Corpuscles, 16 



9. The Colourless Corpuscles Leucocytes, 17 



10. Abnormal Changes of the Blood-Corpuscles, 22 



11. Chemical Constituents of the Red Blood-Corpuscles, .... 23 



12. Preparation of Haemoglobin Crystals, ....... 24 



13. Quantitative Estimation of Haemoglobin, 25 



14. Use of the Spectroscope, 27 



15. Compounds of Haemoglobin Methaemoglobin, ..... 29 



16. Carbonic Oxide-Haemoglobin, 31 



17. Poisoning by Carbonic Oxide, 32 



18. Decomposition of Haemoglobin, ........ 33 



19. Haemin and Blood Tests, 34 



20. Haematoidin, 35 



21. The Colourless Proteid of Haemoglobin, 36 



22. Proteids of the Stroma, 36 



23. The other Constituents of Red Blood-Corpuscles, .... 36 



24. Chemical Composition of the Colourless Corpuscles, .... 37 



25. Blood-Plasma, and its Relation to Serum, ...... 37 



26. Preparation of Plasma, . . . 38 



27. Fibrin Coagulation of the Blood, 39 



28. General Phenomena of Coagulation, . 40 



29. Cause of the Coagulation of the Blood, 43 



30. Source of the Fibrin- Factors, 46 



31. Relation of the Red Blood-Corpuscles to the Formation of Fibrin, , 47 



