CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I
General Introduction
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Historical Account of the Work on Regeneration of Trembley, Bonnet, and Spallanzani 1
Some Further Examples of Regeneration 6
Definition of Terms 19
CHAPTER II
The External Factors of Regeneration in Animals
The Effect of Temperature 26
The Effect of Food 27
The Effect of Light 29
The Effect of Gravity 30
The Effect of Contact 33
The Effect of Chemical Changes in the Environment 35
General Conclusions 36
CHAPTER III
The Internal Factors of Regeneration in Animals
Polarity and Heteromorphosis 38
Lateral Regeneration 43
Regeneration from an Oblique Surface 44
The Influence of Internal Organs at the Cut-surface 52
The Influence of the Amount of New Material 54
The Influence of the Old Parts on the New 62
The Influence of the Nucleus on Regeneration 65
The Closing in of Cut-edges 69
CHAPTER IV
Regeneration in Plants
Regeneration in Flowering Plants 71
Regeneration in Liverworts, Mosses, and Moulds 84
Hypothesis of Formative Stuffs 88
CHAPTER V
Regeneration and Liability to Injury
Examples of Supposed Connection between Regeneration and Liability to Injury 92
Regeneration in Different Parts of the Body 97
Regeneration throughout the Animal Kingdom 103
Regeneration and the Theory of Natural Selection 108
CHAPTER VI
Regeneration of Internal Organs. Hypertrophy. Atrophy
Regeneration of Liver, Eye, Kidney, Salivary Glands, Bones, Muscles, Nerves, Brain, and Cord of Vertebrates 111
Examples of Hypertrophy 115
Theories of Hypertrophy 118
Atrophy 123
Incomplete Regeneration 125
CHAPTER VII
Physiological Regeneration
Supposed Relation between Physiological Regeneration and Restorative Regeneration 128
Regeneration and Growth 131
Double Structures

REGENERATION

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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