Life in Motion/Index

by John Gray McKendrick

INDEX

• Battery, 38
• Bernard, Claude, reference to, 101
• Biceps, the, 16
• Biedermann, fluid of, 1 35
• Blood, corpuscles of, 89: gases in the, 124
• Body compared to machine, 21
• Bowman, Sir William, sarcous elements of, 94
• Break of railway myograph, 64

 

• Casein, 137
• Cells, 91
• Chronograph, 58
• Cilia, 90
• Cold-blooded animals, 23
• Contractions, voluntary, 77
• Crystallisation, 9
• Curara, experiment with, 100

 

• Darwin, H., reference to, 60
• De la Rue, reference to, 161
• Dewar, reference to, 7, 161, 175
• Dobie, the line of, in muscle, 95
• D'ons-en-Bray, anemometer of, 49
• Du Bois Reymond, reference to, 43, 131, 164, 179, 193
• Dulmmel, reference to, 57

 

• Elasticity, 83, 85
• Electric fishes, 180
• Electric organs, 190
• Electrification of living beings, 45
• Electrodes, 36, 165
• Electro-magnet, 14
• End-plates, 98
• Engelmann, discs of, 95
• Ether, the, 5
• Eye, electrical phenomena of, 174

 

• Faraday, reference to, 1, 123
• Faradic electricity, 41
• Fat in milk, 139
• Fick, work-gatherer of, 147; on muscle-work, 146
• Food, nature of, 131, 141
• Frog, currents in eye of, 174
• Frog, muscles in leg of, 17
• Frog-interrupter, 30

 

• Galvani, reference to, 178
• Galvanometer, 162
• Gastrocnemius muscle, 23
• Glycogen in muscle, 129
• Graphic method, 47
• Gymnotus, 183, 186

 

• Haller, reference to, 86
• Heart, electric changes in, 171; mode of keeping alive, 134
• Heat in muscle, 116, 120, 146
• Helmholtz, reference to, 104, 129
• Hunter, John, reference to, 184

 

• Induced electricity, 42
• Induction coil, 43

 

• Key, 39
• Krause, membrane of, 95
• Kronecker, frog-heart apparatus of, 133
• Kühne, reference to, 174

 

• Latent period, 68
• Life, nature of, 3, 25

 

• Magellan, reference to, 50
• Malapterurus, 187
• Man-current, 176
• Marey, reference to, 50
• Matteucci, reference to, 173
• Milk, 137, 140
• Movements, chemical, 7; molecular, 4; physical, 4; reflex, 195; voluntary, 194
• Muscle, breathing of, 122; chemical changes in, 121; chemical substances in, 141; elasticity of, 83; electric currents in, 167, 168; energy liberated by, 146; as an engine, 142; effects of exercise on, 158; extensibility of, 82; fatigue of, 152; irritability of, 86; respiratory exchanges in, 127; rhythmic movements of, 132; sound of, 80; structure of, 192; tetanus of, 71, 73; twitch of, 29, 67, 75; wear and tear of, 144; action of, in gases, 128; work done by, 149
• Muscle-bell, the, 27, 28
• Muscles of arm, 16
• Myograph of Fick, 34; the railway, 61; the spring, 106

 

• Negative variation, 169, 172
• Nerve-cells, 97, 188
• Nerve-current, nature of, 110; measurement of rapidity of,

105

• Nerve-muscle preparation, 28
• Nerve, structure of, 96
• Nobili, reference to, 179

 

• Oersted, reference to, 179

 

• Pendulum, the, 54

 

• Rutherford, thermometer of, 50

 

• Sanderson, Burdon, reference to, 112
• Schäfer, reference to, 94
• Sclater, P. L., reference to, 192
• Spring, vibrating, for tetanus, 69
• Steel cylinders, 11
• Sugar in milk, 138

 

• Temperature, effects of, on life of tissues, 24
• Tetanus, 71, 73
• Thermal junctions, 114; pile, 115
• Thunderer fish, 187
• Time, measurement of, 51
• Tissues, breathing of, 124
• Torpedo, the, 181
• Torula cerevisiæ, 8
• Tuning-forks, 10, 58

 

• Vacuum Tube, 45
• Volla, reference to, 178
• Voluntary motions, time in, 79
• Vril, 180

 

• Waller, Augustus, reference to, 171
• Warm-blooded animals, 24
• Watt, James, reference to, 87
• Wiedemann, galvanometer of, 162
• Wimshurst, machine of, 45
• Wollaston, reference to, 80
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• Yeast, 8
• Young, Thomas, reference to, 55

THE END

 

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