GENERAL CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



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



Matter, ..... 



Forces, ..... 



Law of the Conservation of Energy, 



Animals and Plants, 



Vital Energy and Life, 



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I. PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BLOOD. 



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1. Physical Properties of the Blood, 



2. Microscopic Examination of the Blood, 



3. Histology of the Human Red Blood- Corpuscles, 



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



5. Preparation of the Stroma Making Blood ' ' Lake Coloured 



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



7. Origin of the Red Blood-Corpuscles, 



8. Decay of the Red Blood-Corpuscles, 



9. The Colourless Corpuscles Leucocytes Blood Plates Granules, 



10. Abnormal Changes of the Blood-Corpuscles, . 



11. Chemical Constituents of the Red Blood-Corpuscles 



12. Preparation of Haemoglobin Crystals, . 



13. Quantitative Estimation of Haemoglobin, 



14. Use of Spectroscope, . . ... 



15. Compounds of Haemoglobin Methaemoglobin, 



16. Carbonic Oxide-Haemoglobin Poisoning with Carbonic Oxide, 



17. Other Compounds of Haemoglobin, 



18. Decomposition of Haemoglobin, 



19. Haemin and Blood Tests, 



20. Haematoidin, .... 



21. The Colourless Proteid of Haemoglobin, 



22. Proteids of the Stroma, 



23. The other Constituents of Red Blood-Corpuscles, 



24. Chemical Composition of the Colourless Corpuscles, 



25. Blood-Plasma, and its Relation to Sern 



26. Preparation of Plasma, 



27. Fibrin Coagulation of the Blood, 



28. General Phenomena of Coagulation, 



29. Cause of Coagulation of the Blood, 



30. Source of the Fibrin-Factors, . 



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