Paradoxical Contraction; Electrotonus; Experiment with Ergo- 



graph pp. 89-92 



Chapter XXIV 

 Elasticity and Extensibility of Muscle; Independent Irritabili- 

 ty of Muscle; Bernard's Method; Relative Excitability of Muscle 

 and Nerve; Changes in the Excitability of a Nerve When Dying; 

 Dead Muscle and Nerve; Kiihne's Sartorius Experiment, pp. 92-96 



Chapter XXV 

 The Moist Chamber; The Muscle Curve; Amplification or 

 Magnification; Work Done During a Single Contraction; Record 

 of the Thickening of a Muscle pp. 96-99 



Chapter XXVI 

 Influence of Veratrine on the Contraction of Muscle; Fatigue 



of Muscle; Tetanus pp. 100-102 



Chapter XXVII 

 Influence of Temperature upon the Contraction of Muscle; 

 Influence of Load upon the Contraction of Muscle; Isotonic; Iso- 

 metric; After Load; Induction in Nerves; Telephone Experiment 



pp. 102-105 



Chapter XXVIII 

 Cardiac Vagus; Stimulation; Latent Period; Inhibition; Es- 

 cape; Action of Drugs on Heart; Muscarine; Atropine; Pilocar- 

 pine; Nicotine pp. 105-107 



Chapter XXIX 

 Sphygmographs ; Lud wig's; Von Prey's; Richardson's Teske's 



Sphygmometers ; Pneumograph pp. 107-109 



Chapter XXX 



Artificial Scheme of the Blood Circulation ; Conversion of an 



Intermittent Flow into a Continuous Flow ; Relation of Peripheral 



Resistance to Blood Pressure ; Changes in the Stroke of the Pump ; 



Inhibition of the Ventricle ; Opening and Closing of Valves ; Period 



of Outflow from the Ventricle pp. 110-116 



Chapter XXXI 

 Blood Pressure in the Frog ; Stannius's Experiments on the 

 Frog's Heart ; Cardiac Delay or Latent Period of Cardiac Muscle ; 

 Maximum Contractions Only ; Staircase Contractions of the Heart; 

 Location of Motor Centers in Frog's Heart ; Efiect of Temperature 

 upon Heart Beat ; Bernstein's Experiment ; Isolated Apex ; Intra- 

 cardiac Inhibitory Center in Frog ; Form and Volume of Contract- 

 ing Muscle pp. 116-120 



