Physiology: The Science of the Body

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I THE SIGNS OF LIFE

CHAPTER II THE MAINTAINING OF LIFE

CHAPTER III THE SOURCES OF FOOD

CHAPTER IV THE USES OF FOOD

CHAPTER V BODY CELLS

CHAPTER VI THE SUPPORTING FRAMEWORK

CHAPTER VII MOTION

CHAPTER VIII SENSATION INTERNAL AND CONTACT SENSES

CHAPTER IX SENSATION DISTANCE SENSES

CHAPTER X THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SIMPLE NERVOUS ACTIONS

CHAPTER XI THE BRAIN AND COMPLEX NERVOUS ACTIONS

CHAPTER XII SOME SPECIAL NERVOUS ACTIONS; SMOOTH MUSCLE AND GLAND CONTROL

CHAPTER XIII THE BODY FLUIDS

CHAPTER XIV THE CONVEYER SYSTEM OF THE BODY

CHAPTER XV THE SERVICE OF SUPPLY OF FOOD

CHAPTER XVI THE SERVICE OF SUPPLY OF OXYGEN

CHAPTER XVII THE SERVICE OF REMOVAL OF WASTE

CHAPTER XVIII MORE ABOUT THE USE OF FOOD BY THE BODY

CHAPTER XIX KEEPING WARM IN WINTER AND COOL IN SUMMER

CHAPTER XX THE PERPETUATION OF THE RACE

CHAPTER XXI CHILD AND MAN

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Muscular Coordination Weissmuller’s horizontal plunge into a swimming pool.

Muscular Coordination
Weissmuller’s horizontal plunge into a swimming pool.

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

GARRETT P. SERVISS

AUTHORS

WILLIAM J. MILLER · HIPPOLYTE GRUENER · A. RUSSELL BOND
D. W. HERING LOOMIS HAVEMEYER · ERNEST G. MARTIN
ARTHUR SELWYN-BROWN · ROBERT CHENAULT GIVLER
ERNEST INGERSOLL · WILFRED MASON BARTON
WILLIAM B. SCOTT · ERNEST J. STREUBEL
NORMAN TAYLOR · DAVID TODD
CHARLES FITZHUGH TALMAN
ROBIN BEACH

ARRANGED IN SIXTEEN VOLUMES
WITH A HISTORY OF SCIENCE, GLOSSARIES
AND A GENERAL INDEX

ILLUSTRATED





VOLUME NINE

P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY
NEW YORK

Copyright 1922
By P. F. Collier & Son Company

MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A.

PHYSIOLOGY

The   Science   of   the   Body

BY
ERNEST   G.   MARTIN
Professor of Physiology, Stanford University





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