Life in motion, or, Muscle and nerve : a course of six lectures delivered before a juvenile auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas holidays of 1891-92 / by John Gray McKendrick.

Date:
1892
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Credit: Life in motion, or, Muscle and nerve : a course of six lectures delivered before a juvenile auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas holidays of 1891-92 / by John Gray McKendrick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ria. I'AfiK 58. Diagram showing all the apparatus in the experiment of demonstrating the heat of muscular contraetion . . 116 59. Arrangement of thermal piles in demonstrating heat of muscular eoutraotion . . . . . .117 60. Breathing into lime-water . .123 61. Muscle in tube of o.xygen 127 62. Frog-heart apparatus 133 63. The work-gatherer 147 64. Experiment with the work-gatherer .... 148 65. Apparatus for demonstrating muscular fatigue . .153 66. Curves made by a muscle as it gradually became fatigued 155 67. Wiedemann's galvanometer . . . . . .162 68. MiiTor and ring-magnet of Wiedemann's galvanometer . 163 69. Zinc troughs of du Bois Raymond 165 70. Arrangement for demonstrating Matteucci's induced con- traction 173 71. Diagram showing arrangement of apparatus in experi- ment of demonstrating action of light on frog's eye . 174 72. Torpedo Galvani 181 73. Portion of electric organ of torpedo .... 182 74. Gymnotus electricus 183 75. Section of body of gymnotus 184 76. Portion of electric organ of gymnotus .... 186 77. Portion of electric organ of skate 186 78. Malapterurus, the thunderer fisli 187 79. Section of body of malapterurus 188 80. Nerve-cell for electric organ 188 81. Portion of electric organ of malapterurus . . . 191 I I