A textbook of physiology / By M. Foster.

  • Michael Foster
Date:
1880
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Credit: A textbook of physiology / By M. Foster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE Introductory, 13 BOOK I. BLOOD. THE TISSUES OF MOVEMENT. THE VASCULAK MECHANISM. CHAPTER I. Blood, 23-60. Sec. 1. The Coagulation of Blood, 24 Sec. 2. The Chemical Composition of Blood, 43 Sec. 3. The History of the Corpuscles, 53 Sec. 4. The Quantity of Blood, and its Distribution in the Body, . 59 CHAPTEE II. The Contractile Tissues, 61-155. [The Physiological Anatomy of the Skeletal Muscles,. . . . G2] Sec. 1. The Phenomena of 3Tuscle and Nerve, 63 Muscular and nervous irritability, 64. The Phenom- ena of a simple muscular contraction, 67. Tetanic contractions, 75. Sec. 2. The Changes in a Muscle during Muscular Contraction, . 81 The change in form, 81. Electrical Changes, 86. Chemical Changes, 94. The changes in a Xerve dur- ing the passage of a Nervous Impulse, 101.
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