Nature and life.
Subtitle: Facts and doctrines relating to the constitution of matter, the new dynamics, and the philosophy of nature.
By: By Fernand Papillon. Tr. from the 2d French ed., by A. R. Macdonough, esq.
Contributors: Macdonough, August Rodney, 1820- tr.
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1875
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Biology
Table of contents: title: The constitution of matter, and the new dynamism.- The philosophy of nature, and Leibnitz's ideas.- The general constitution of living beings.- Light and life.- Heat and life.- Electricity and life.- Odors and life.- Medicaments and life.- Animal grafts and regenerations.- Ferments, fermentations, and life.- Great epidemics.- Asiatic cholera.- The physiology of death.- Heredity in physiology, in medicine, and in psychology.