Xii TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



SECTION XII. i-age 



659 



6G0 



664 



666 



672 



Nutrition, 



I. The Fate op the Albuminous Food-Constituents, 

 II. The Fate of the Fatty Food-Constituents, 



III. The Fate op the Carbohydrate Food-Constituents, 



IV. The Statistics op Nutrition, .... 



1. Tissue Changes in Starvation, 674 ; 2. The Nutritive Processes in 

 Feeding, 680 ; (a) Feeding with Meat, 680 ; (b) Feeding with 

 Fat, 682 ; (c) Feeding with Carbohydrates, 683. 



Y. The Food Required by the Herbivora Under Different 



Conditions, ■ "°^ 



VI. Hunger and Thirst, ■ • 



692 



SECTION XIII. 



Animal Heat, 693 



BOOK SECOND. 



The Animal Functions. 



SECTION I. 



The Physiology of Movement, 701 



1. The Contractile Tissues, 701 ; (a) Chemical Composition of Muscle, 

 704 ; (J) Muscular Irritability, 709 ; (c) The Phenomena of Mus- 

 cular Contraction, 710 ; (d) The Electrical Phenomena in Muscle, 

 721 ; 2. The Applications of Muscular Contractility, 722 ; 3. Ani- 

 mal Locomotion, 731 ; 4. The Gaits of the Horse, 739 ; (a) The 

 Walk, 744; (6) The Amble, 746; (e) The Trot, 748; (d) The 

 Gallop, 749 ; 5. Other Movements in the Horse, 750 ; (a) Rearing, 

 750 ; (6) Kicking, 753 ; (c) Lying Down and Rising Up, 754 ; 

 (d) "Walking Backward, 754 ; (e) Swimming, 755 ; 6. Special Mus- 

 cular Mechanisms — The Voice, 757. 



SECTION II. 



The Physiology of the Nervous System, 765 



I. The Chemical and Physical Characteristics op Nervous 



Tissues, 774 



II. Nervous Irritability, 7.76 



III. The Electrical Phenomena in Nerves, .... 779 



IV. General Physiology of the Nerve-Centres, . . . 781 



1. Reflex Action, 782 ; 2. Automatism, 784 ; 3. Inhibition, 785 ; 4. 

 Augmentation, 785 ; 5. Co-ordination, 785. 



