# Life in Motion/Index

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
* 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
* Yeast, 8
* Young, Thomas, reference to, 55
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