Elements of physiology / by A. Richerand ; translated from the French by G.J.M. De Lys.

  • Richerand, A. (Anthelme), 1779-1840.
Date:
1825
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    ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. Preface—Preliminary discourse. Physiology—the Science of life, Definition of life, 1. § 1. Of Natural beings. They are inorganic or organized - The former are simple or complex ; the latter always complex, and distinguished into vegetable and animal. Reciprocal dependance of all these beings, 1, § II. Of the elements of bodies. The elements of bodies. Their number forty-four ; but it is probable that several appear to us simple, from the imperfection of our means of analysis, 2. §111. Differences between organized and unorganized bodies. Differences between organized and inorganized bodies, 3. Hotnoge- neousness of the latter ; complex nature of the former ; necessary co- existence of fluids and solids in all organized and living beings ; simplicity of inanimate matter ; complex nature and tendency to decomposition of organized bodies, 4. *■ § IV. Differences between animals and plants. Differences between animals and plants. 5. The great distance be- tween the mineral and vegetable kingdom. A considerable approxima- tion, on the contrary, between animals and plants, 6. Of all the charac- ters which mark the differences between these substances, the most re- markable is the presence of an alimentary tube, which is found in every animal from man down to the polypus, 7. In all animals, nutrition is performed by two surfaces, especially by the internal ; the alimentary canal is the most essential part of their body, 7. It retains life longer than any other part.—Experiments disproving Haller's opinion on this subject, 7. § V. Of life. Consists of a number of phenomena proportioned to the complication of the organization, 8. Simple in plants, in which its actions are limited to nutrition and reproduction, 8. Of life in the polypus ; this animal, consisting merely of a sentient and contractile pulp, shaped into an ali- mentary cavity, 9- Of life in worms, 9.—in crustaceous animals, its ap- paratus more perfect, 10. Of life in cold-blooded animals, 10. In warm- blooded animals, and in man, 11. General view of the human organiza- tion, 11. Of the elementary fibre, 12 Dependance of life on the ox- ydation of the blood in the lungs, and on the distribution of this vivified blood throughout the organs, 14. § VI. Of the vital properties ;. sensibility and contractility. Those two properties not possessed in an equal degree by all living bodies, 14. Modifications of sensibility in different organs, 17. Obser- vations on the contractility of serous membranes, 18. Caloricity, 19. Laws of sensibility, 20. Influence of sleep, of climate, of the seasons, of the age, &c. on the vital properties, 22—24