Title: Starling's Principles of human physiology.
Authors: Starling, Ernest Henry, 1866-1927; Evans, Charles Lovatt, 1884-1968; Hartridge, Hamilton, 1886-1976
Publisher: Lea & Febiger,
Year: 1930
Subjects: Physiology; Physiology
Contents: Ch. I. Introduction -- book I. General physiology -- ch. II. The structural basis of the body -- ch. III. The elementary constituents of protoplasm -- ch. IV. The proximate constituents -- 1. The lipides -- 2. The carbohydrates -- 3. The proteins -- ch. V. The mechanism of organic synthesis -- ch. VI. The energy of molecules in solution -- ch. VII. The properties of colloids -- ch. VIII. The passage of water and salts across membranes -- ch. IX. Electrical changes in living tissues -- ch. X. The mechanism of chemical changes in living matter -- book II. Muscle and nerve -- ch. XI. Voluntary striated muscle -- The structure of voluntary muscle -- Chemical composition of voluntary muscle -- Excitation of muscle and other tissues -- The mechanical changes that a muscle undergoes when it contracts -- The chemical and thermal changes which accompany activity -- Electrical changes in muscle -- The intimate nature of muscular contraction -- ch. XII. Plain muscle and other contractile tissues -- ch. XIII. Nerve fibres -- The structure of nerve fibres -- Propagation along nerve fibres -- Conditions affecting the passage of a nervous impulse -- The excitation of nerve fibres -- The neuro-muscular junction -- Polarisation phenomena in nerve -- The nature of the nerve impulse