TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



BOOK I. 



GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY. 



PAGE. 

 I. ON THE NATURE AND OBJECTS OF THE SCIENCE OF PHYSIOLOGY . . 17 



1. General Characters of Organized Structures ... 18 



2. Distinctive Characters of Vital Actions . . . .25 



3. Of the Forces concerned in the production of Vital Phenomena 44 



4. Of Degeneration and Death ...... 53 



5. General Summary ...... 56 



II. OF THE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF VITAL ACTIVITY . . . .58 



1. Of light, as a Condition of Vital Activity ... 61 



2. Of Heat, as a Condition of Vital Activity . . . .71 



3. Of Electricity, as a Condition of Vital Activity ... 94 



4. Of Moisture, as a Condition of Vital Activity . . .97 



III. OF THE ELEMENTARY PARTS OF ANIMAL STRUCTURES . . . 105 



1. Of the Primary Components of the Animal Fabric . . . 107 



2. Of the Simple Fibrous Tissues . . - . . 119 



3. Of the Basement or Primary Membrane . . . 127 



4. Of Simple Isolated Cells, employed in the Organic Functions . 130 



5. Of cells connected together, as permanent constituents of the Tissues 154 



6. Of Cells coalesced into Tubes, with Secondary Deposit . . 196 



BOOK II. 



-, SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY. 



IV. OF FOOD, AND THE DIGESTIVE PROCESS ..... 236 



1. Sources of the Demand for Aliment .... 236 



2. Of the Digestive Apparatus, and its Actions in general . . 252 



3. Of the Movements of the Alimentary Canal ... 257 



4. Of the Secretions poured into the Alimentary Canal, and of the 



Changes which they effect in its contents . . . 264 



5. Of Hunger, Satiety, and Thirst . . . .274 



V. OF ABSORPTION AND SANGUIFICATION ..... 277 



1. Of Absorption from the Digestive Cavity . . . 277 



2. Of the Passage of Chyle along the Lacteals, and its admixture 



with the Lymph collected from the General System . . 281 



3. Of the Spleen, and other Glandular appendages to the Lymphatic 



System ....... 286 



4. Of the Composition and properties of the Chyle and Lymph . 292 



5. Of Absorption from the External and Pulmonary Surfaces . 296 



6. Of the Composition and Properties of the Blood . . .297 



