General physiology : an outline of the science of life / by Max Verworn ... tr. from the 2d German ed. and edited by Frederic S. Lee ... With two hundred and eighty-five illustrations.

  • Max Verworn
Date:
1899
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Credit: General physiology : an outline of the science of life / by Max Verworn ... tr. from the 2d German ed. and edited by Frederic S. Lee ... With two hundred and eighty-five illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kathode, 405 Keratin, 109, 141 Kidney, excretion by cells of, 166 Knowledge, asl ronomical, 33 concept ion of, 31-, 34 Knowledge <>f nature, du Bois-Rey- mond's definil ion of, 31 limits of, 31 Kuhne, 23 Kymograph, invention of, 23 L>ici\i/ni'irift., movement of non-nucle- ated pieces of, 509 Lactic acid as excretion, 174 as product of carbohydrate-decompo- sition, 112,113 as product of proteid-decomposition, 110, 164 in synthesis of uric acid, IT-') Lactose, 112 Lievulose, 110, 112 Lavoisier, 11) Law, biogenetic, 30, 207, 208, 315, 575 of conservation of energy, 26, 210, 211 of conservation of matter, 26 of polar excitation, 414 Ohm's, 407 Lecithins, 109 Leeuwenhoek, 15 Leucocytes, action of quinine upon, 375 behaviour of nucleus in narcosis of, 521 chemotaxis of, 430 degeneration of, 323 food-ingestion by, 144 food-selection by, 148 in necrobiosis, 327 role of, in histolysis, 322, 432 Licberkiihnia, ingestion and digestion of food by, 152 Liebig, 23 Life, actual, 132 and apparent death, 126 and death, 133 as proteid-metabolism, 136, 310 conception of, 2, 303, 3< 19 external conditions of, 273, 274 general and special conditions of, 273 internal conditions of, 273, 294 latent, 132 origin of, 297, 307, 311 PfLiiger's idea of origin of, 304 potential, 132 primitive ideas concerning, 3, 7 theory of continuity of, 121, 302, 309 Light, action of, in plant-cell, 158, 217, m 547 introduction of, into organism, 217 nature of organic, 254 production of, 253 Lightning-bug, luminosity of, 254, 255 Linin, 92 Liquefaction, 325 Living and lifeless, I, lis, 4SI Living substance, chemical properties of, 99 composition of, 55 formation of, 483 galvanic current of, 266 inorganic constituents of, 114 optical properties of, 98 organisation of, 93, 119 physical properties of, 93 specific gravity of, 97 Ludwig, 23 Luminosity of chemical substances, 250 organic, 253 Macbonucleus, 92, 201, 343, 517 Magendie, 25 Magnetism, animal, 349 J\[a(]os]}luvra as cell-republic, 568 Maipighi, 15 Man, fasting of, 276 development of, 339 Marey, 23 Mass-effect, 43 Matter and mind, 34 Matter, law of conservation of, 26 nature of, 33, 35 Maturation of ovum, 199, 202 Maximum of excitation, 471 of stimulus, 350 of temperature, 288, 291, 396 of vital conditions, 349 Mayow, 15 Mechanico-dynamical system of Hoff- man, 16 Mechanical energy, production of, 219 Mechanical equivalent, 212 Mesembryanthemum, water in, 279 Metabolism, 137, 483 action of heat upon, 390 action of stimuli upon, 489 and oxygen, 366 as characteristic of living organism, 125, 131,311, 477 curve of, 177 in manufacture of sulphuric acid, 125 in tetanus, 388 of animals, 164, 173 of plants, 164, 173 scheme of, in cell, 522 self-regulation of, 489 without nucleus, 518 Metachronism of ciliary motion, 247, 570 Metamorphosis, 330, 491 amyloid, 334, 491 colioid, 336 fat, 331 mucous, 332 Metaphysics and natural science, 39 Metaphyta, 316 .1/- tazoa, 316 Micronucleus, 92, 201, 343, 517 R R