Lessons in Elementary Physiology

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Macmillan, 1872 - 319 pages
 

Contents

Connective tissue 9 Fat cells
280
Pigment cells II Bone
284
Teeth Growth of bone Ossification
287
Development of teeth Cutting of teeth 15 Muscle striated and smooth 16 Nervous tissue nerve fibres and ganglionic corpuscles 17 Tactile corpuscles ...
295
APPENDIX A TABLE OF ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSTANTS I General statistics
297
Digestion III Circulation
299
Respiration Pp 297301
300
Renal excretion VII Nervous action VIII Histology
301
APPENDIX B CASE OF MRS A Pp 302306
302
1 Distribution of arterial blood
1
24 The blood in various ways meets with constant or in termittent gains and losses of material and heat
2
Analysis of the sensation obtained by drawing the finger
3
The spinal cord The roots of the spinal nerves
4
Tabular view of the sources of loss and gain
5
Muscles attached to levers The three orders of levers
6
A general view of the way in which the vessels are arranged in the body and are connected with the heart
7
The Heart its connexions and structure the pericardium and endocardium the auricles and ventricles
8
Examples of levers of the third order
9
Its valves their structure action and purpose
10
Its systole and diastole 12 The working of the heart the mechanism by which the heart through its contractions drives the blood always in one directi...
12
The working of the arteries
13
The beat of the heart
14
The maintenance of an upright position the result of many combined actions
15
The relation of the mind to the action of the muscles
16
The spinal cord capable of converting impressions from without into muscular contractions
17
Special sensations
18
The tissues are constantly being renewed
19
The renewal is effected by means of the alimentary appa ratus which converts food into nutriment and by
20
The circulation traced in its whole course
21
The functions of different parts of the brain Intelligence and Will reside in the cerebral hemispheres
22
blushing
23
Many ordinary and very complicated muscular acts are mere reflex processes
24
Artificial reflex actions Education
25
The sympathetic system
26
LESSON IV
49
RESPIRATION Pp 74100
74

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