Fatigue / by A. Mosso ; Translated by Margaret Drummond and W.B. Drummond.

  • Angelo Mosso
Date:
1906
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    PAGE CHAPTER III THE ORIGIN OF THE ENERGY OF THE MUSCLES AND OF THE BRAIN i. The law of the Conservation of Energy. Her- mann v. Helmholtz and R. Mayer.—2. Plants and Animals.—3. The various doctrines of the Nature of the Soul. The tendency of modern ■physiology.—4. The transformation of energy in life.—5. Chemical processes in cerebral activity. Experiments on Bertino to show the effects of cerebral anaemia 5 0-73 CHAPTER IV UPON THE GENERAL AND SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FATIGUE 1. Velocity of the propagation of the nervous stim- ulus. Myographs.—2. Modifications of muscular contractions brought about by fatigue.—3. Kronecker’s experiments and the laws of fatigue.—4. The ergograph.—5. Various types of muscular fatigue written with the ergograph. Professor V. Aducco, Doctor Maggiora, Doctor Patrizi. Influence of training.—6. Examination of the mode in which the ergograph works. Tracings of muscular fatigue written without the participation of the will, by stimulating the muscles or the nerves directly 74-102 CHAPTER V THE SUBSTANCES PRODUCED IN FATIGUE 1. The discoveries of Lavoisier and Spallanzani with respect to respiration. Fatigue does not arise exclusively from the want of something in the muscle which has done work. Experimepts on the wasting of muscles.—2. Breathlessness. Frogs retain the power of movement even when the blood has been removed from their bodies. Increased frequency of the respiratory move- ments in eels in consequence of muscular exer- tion. Periodic respiration.—3. Why the res- piration becomes more active in consequence