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Life and death

A. Dastre · Science_-_Biology · 40 章

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Transcriber’s Notes LIFE AND DEATH PREFACE.CONTENTS.BOOK I. THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE—GENERAL THEORIES OF LIFE AND DEATH—THEIR SUCCESSIVE TRANSFORMATIONS.CHAPTER I. EARLY THEORIES.CHAPTER II. ANIMISM.§ 4. Philosophical Neo-Vitalism.CHAPTER IV. THE MONISTIC THEORY.§ 2. The Physiological Domain properly so called.BOOK II. THE DOCTRINE OF ENERGY AND THE LIVING WORLD.§ 8. Carnot’s Principle. Its Generality.§ 4. The Third Law of Biological Energetics.§ 5. The Plastic Rôle of Food.BOOK III.CHAPTER I. THE DOCTRINE OF VITAL UNITY.§ 4. The Individuality of Complex Beings. Law of the Constitution of Organisms.§ 3. The Constitution of Histones and Albumins.§ 2. Intrinsic Conditions. The Law of the Constitution of Organs and Apparatus.§ 2. The Acquisition and Re-establishment of the Specific Form.§ 4. Characteristics of Nutrition.BOOK IV. THE LIFE OF MATTER.§ 2. Opinion of the Philosophers.CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OF BRUTE MATTER IN LIVING MATTER.CHAPTER III. ORGANIZATION AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF LIVING AND BRUTE MATTER.§ 4. Internal Activity of Alloys.§ 2. Cicatrization in Living Beings and in Crystals.CHAPTER VI. NUTRITION IN THE LIVING BEING AND IN THE CRYSTAL.CHAPTER VII. GENERATION IN BRUTE BODIES AND LIVING BODIES. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION.BOOK V. SENESCENCE AND DEATH.CHAPTER I. VARIOUS WAYS OF REGARDING DEATH.CHAPTER II. THE PROCESS OF DEATH.CHAPTER III. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERS OF CELLULAR DEATH. NECROBIOSIS. GROWING OLD.CHAPTER IV. THE APPARENT PERENNITY OF COMPLEX INDIVIDUALS.CHAPTER V. THE IMMORTALITY OF THE PROTOZOA.CHAPTER VI. LETHALITY OF THE METAZOA AND OF DIFFERENTIATED CELLS.§ 4. The Instinct of Life and the Instinct of Death.INDEX OF AUTHORS.FOOTNOTES:THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE