Irritability

_Contents_: Introductory. Earliest period. _Francis Glisson_ as founder of the doctrine of irritability. _Albrecht von Haller._ The vitalists. _Bordeu_ and _Barthez_. _John Brow...

_Contents_: Principles of scientific knowledge and research. Origin and meaning of the conception of cause. Cause and condition. Criticism of the conception of cause. The condit...

_Contents_: The quality of the stimulus. Positive and negative alterations of the factors which act as vital conditions. Extent of the alteration in vital conditions or intensit...

_Contents_: Various examples of the effects of stimulation. Metabolism of rest and metabolism of stimulation. Metabolic equilibrium. Disturbances of equilibrium by stimuli. Quan...

_Contents_: Indicators for the investigation of the process of excitation. Latent period. The question of the existence of assimilatory excitations. Dissimilatory excitations. E...

_Contents_: Only processes of excitation are conducted, not processes of depression. Conduction of excitation in its two extreme instances. Conduction in undifferentiated pseudo...

_Contents_: Conception of specific irritability. Alteration of specific irritability during and after excitation. Refractory period in various forms of living substance. Absolut...

_Contents_: Examples of effects of interference of stimuli in unicellular organisms. Interference of galvanic and thermic stimuli in Paramecia. Interference of galvanic and ther...

_Contents_: Necessity of cellular physiological analysis of toxic depressions by pharmacology. Apparent variety of processes of depression. Depression of oxydative disintegratio...