610 



INDEX 



Microscope, invention of, 15 

 Milli, formation of, 331 

 Milk-sugar, 112 



Mimosa, electrical stimulation of, 426 

 mechanical stimulation of, 380 

 movement of, 227 

 narcosis of, 374 

 Mind and matter, 34 



Egyptian doctrine of, 7 

 Minimum of stimulus, 350 

 of temperature, 288, 395 

 of vital conditions, 349 

 Mitosis, 193 

 Molecule, 209 

 Mollnsca, 317 

 Monera, 66, 300, 312, 316 

 Monism, 34, 38, 40, 41 

 Monosaccharids, 110 

 Movement, amwboid, 234, 284, 560 

 as characteristic of life, 4, 7 

 Brownian, 4, 220 

 by change of cell-turgor, 225 

 by change of specific gravity, 229 

 by contraction and expansion, 233 

 by growth, 233 

 by secretion, 231 

 by swelling of cell-wall, 222 

 ciliary, 247, 570 

 kinds of, 219 

 muscular, 240 

 passive, 219 

 Moulds, adaptation of, to salt solutions, 



184 

 Mucigen,170, 333 

 Mucin, 108, 113, 171, 333 

 Mucous cells, 170, 333 

 metamorphosis, 332 

 Mucus, 171, 332 



secretion of, 169 

 MuUer, Johannes, 20 

 Multiplier, 258 

 Mummification, 324 

 Mummy wheat, 130 

 Jfiisca, muscle fatigue of, 463 

 origin of fat in larvfe of, 164 

 Muscinece, 316 



Muscle, action current of, 427 

 chemical stimulation of, 368 

 contraction of, 244, 558, 565 

 contraction of, in absence of oxygen, 



286 

 electrical stimulation of, 413, 415, 



420, 427 

 expansion of, 246 

 fatigue of, 461 

 galvanic current of, 267 

 hasmoglobin in, 286 

 irritability of, 15, 17 

 mechanical stimulation of, 384, 3SS 

 metabolism of, 427 

 metabolism of tetanised, 388 

 narcosis of, 375 

 photic stimulation of, 4( 12 



Muscle, polar excitation of, 415, 420 



production of heat by, 427 



recovery of fatigued, 465 



rigor mortis of, 133 



secondar}' results of fatigue of, 467 



source of energy of, 553 



thermal stimulation of, 394 



work of, 246 

 Mviscle-albumin, 107 



-fibre, 240 



histolysis of, 322 



optical properties of, 98, 243, 245, 

 559 



structure of cross-striated, 242 



structure of smooth. 241 

 Muscle-fibrilla, 241 

 Muscle-segment, 243 

 Myograph, 424 

 Myoid, 241 

 Myopodia, 252 

 Myosin, 107, 324 

 Myxoinyretes, 72 



action of oxygen upon, 369 



chemotaxis of, 430 



development of, 74 



movement of, in absence of oxj'gen, 

 284 



phototaxis of, 449 



protoplasmic streaming in, 239 



rheotaxis of, 444 



thermotaxis of, 452 



Narcotics, 337, 371, 469 



Natural science and metaphj-sics, 39 



purpose of, 1 

 Nature, philosophy of , 2(1, 140 

 Necrobiosis, 135, 319 

 Necrosis, 320, 324, 398 

 Neef's hammer, 411 

 Neovitalism, 31, 44, 45, 46 

 Nerve, centripetal and centrifugal, 579, 

 584 



chemical stimulation of, 371 



conduction in, 360 



electrical stimulation of, 415 



fatigue of, 461 



galvanic current of, 267 



polar excitation of, 415, 421 



pressure-paralysis of, 389 



sensibility of, 18 

 Nerve-endings, 584 

 Nerve-fibre, 581 

 Neuro-muscular cell, 578 

 Neuron, 581 

 y irrns formatint-'<, 19 

 XiteUa. action of temperature upon, 



393 

 Nitrogen, excretion of, in urine, 175 

 Nitrogen-bacteria, 140, 274 

 Nitrogen-equilibrium, 275, 365 

 Nitroglycerine, decomposition of, 124, 



215, 484 

 XHromonas, 140 



