Physiology
_The Principal Processes of Nutrition--The General Plan of Digestion-- Mastication--The Teeth--Preservation of the Teeth--Insalivation--The Stomach and the Gastric Juice--The Movements of the Stomach--Gastric Digestion--The Intestines--The Bile and Pancreatic Juice--Intestinal...
_The Production of Sensations--Variety of Sensations--General Sensibility--Pain and its Function--Special Sensation, Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Hearing--The Hand, the Organ...
24. CHAPTER XII.1. THE LAW OF THE TISSUES.--The will of an infinite Creator is obeyed by atoms as well as by worlds. He has seen fit to commit all the functions of life to structures or tissues...
21. CHAPTER IX._Animal and Vegetative Functions--Sensation, Motion, and Volition--The Structure of the Nervous System--The White and Gray Substances--The Brain--Its Convolutions--The Cerebellu...
20. CHAPTER VIII._The Objects of Respiration--The Lungs--The Air-Passages--The Movements of Respiration--Expiration and Inspiration--The Frequency of Respiration--Capacity of the Lungs--The Air...
19. CHAPTER VII._The Blood--Its Plasma and Corpuscles--Coagulation of the Blood--The Uses of the Blood--Transfusion--Change of Color--The Organs of the Circulation--The Heart, Arteries, and Vei...
18. CHAPTER VI._The Principal Processes of Nutrition--The General Plan of Digestion--Mastication--The Teeth--Preservation of the Teeth--Insalivation--The Stomach and the Gastric Juice--The Mov...
17. CHAPTER V.1. NECESSITY FOR FOOD.--Activity is everywhere followed by waste. The engine uses up coal and water to produce motion, the stream wears away its bank, the growing corn-blade dra...
14. CHAPTER II.1. THE MUSCLES.-- The great mass of the body external to the skeleton, is composed of the flesh, or _Muscles_, which largely determines its outline and weight. The muscles are t...
15. CHAPTER III.1. THE INTEGUMENT.--The skin is the outer covering of the body. The parts directly beneath it are very sensitive, and require protection. This is shown whenever by accident the...
16. CHAPTER IV.1. THE SOURCE OF FOOD.--The term _food_ includes all those substances, whether liquid or solid, which are necessary for the nourishment of the body. The original source of all f...
23. CHAPTER XI._Voice and Speech--The Larynx, or the Organ of the Voice--The Vocal Cords--The Laryngoscope--The Production of the Voice--The Use of the Tongue--The different Varieties of Voice...
13. CHAPTER I.1. THE BONES.--The framework which sustains the human body is composed of the _Bones_. The superstructure consists of the various organs on which the processes of life depend. T...
12. CHAPTER XII.FIG. PAGE FRONTISPIECE, } VISCERA IN POSITION,} 1. Section of bone, 17 2. Structure of bone, magnified, 17 3. The skeleton, 18 4. Cells of cartilage, 20 5. Elbow-joint, 21 6. Sp...
10. CHAPTER X._The Production of Sensations--Variety of Sensations--General Sensibility--Pain and its Function--Special Sensation, Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Hearing--The Hand, the Organ...
9. CHAPTER IX._Animal and Vegetative Functions--Sensation, Motion, and Volition--The Structure of the Nervous System--The White and Gray Substances--The Brain--Its Convolutions--Cerebellum--T...
6. CHAPTER VI._The Principal Processes of Nutrition--The General Plan of Digestion-- Mastication--The Teeth--Preservation of the Teeth--Insalivation--The Stomach and the Gastric Juice--The Mo...
7. CHAPTER VII._The Blood--Its Plasma and Corpuscles--Coagulation of the Blood--The Uses of the Blood--Transfusion--Change of Color--The Organs of the Circulation--The Heart, Arteries, and Vei...
8. CHAPTER VIII._The Objects of Respiration--The Lungs--The Air-Passages--The Movements of Respiration--Expiration and Inspiration--The Frequency of Respiration--Capacity of the Lungs--The Air...
11. CHAPTER XI._Voice and Speech--The Larynx, or the Organ of the Voice--The Vocal Cords--The Laryngoscope--The Production of the Voice--The Use of the Tongue--The different Varieties of Voice...
3. CHAPTER III.5. CHAPTER V.4. CHAPTER IV.1. CHAPTER I.2. CHAPTER II.