Human physiology, with which is incorporated much of the elementary part of the Institutiones physiologicae of J.F. Blumenbach.

  • Elliotson, John, 1791-1868.
Date:
1840
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    1^ CONTENTS. I. GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY. Pagft Chap. I. General View of the Objects of Nature, and of Man as one distinguished from the Rest - - - 1 II. General View of the Constituents of the Human Body - 15 III. General View of the Organs, Functions, and Powers of the Human Body - ~ - - 19 II. SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY. Nutritive Functions, Chap. I. Hunger, Tliirst, and Food - , TI. Mastication and Deglutition III. Digestion IV. Pancreatic Juice V. Bile VI. Spleen VII. Omentum VIII. Intestines IX. Absorbent Vessels X. Blood XI. Motion of the Blood XII. Respiration XIIL Animal Heat XIV. Nutrition XV. Secretion XVI. Perspiration XVII. Urine XVIII. Fat - - 49 - 68 - 77 - 88 - 91 - 104 - 110 " 113 - 123 ~ 143 - 162 - 196 - 230 ' 248 - 255 - 269 •• 289 - 298 a
    CONTENTS. Nervous Functions. Page Chap. XIX. Nervous System _ . . . 303 XX. Voluntary Motion - - - - 469 XXI. Voice and Speech - - - - 503 XXII. External Senses in general and Touch in particular - 518 XXIII. Taste - . - _ . 531 XXIV. Smell - - - - - 539 XXV. Hearing - - - - - 547 XXVI. Sight - - - - - 559 XXVII. Sleep - - - - - 598 Formative Functions, Decay, and Varieties, !hap. XXVIII. General Differences of the Sexes - -699 XXIX. Genital Function in Man - - -722 XXX. Genital Function in Woman - _ _ 745 XXXI. Menstruation - - - - 766 XXXII. Conception and Pregnancy _ _ - 773 XXXIII. Labour and its Sequelae - - - 814 XXXIV. Milk - - - - - 833 XXXV. Differences in the System before and after Birth - 843 XXXVI. Origin, Growth, Decline, and Death of the Human System - - - - 851 APPENDIX. Digestion - - - - - -1143 Phrenology ----- - 1148 Mesmerism - - - - - -1164