Life and death

by A. Dastre

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

• Activity, functional and vital, [106] et seq., [217] et seq.
• Aerobia, [193]
• Age, old, Book v.
• Albumin, [178]
• Albuminoids, [178]
• Alcohol, [136]
• Alimentation, [116] et seq.
• Alloys, structure of, [273]
• Anærobia, [193]
• Animism, [6], [7], Chap. ii., passim
• Annealing, [275]
• Apposition, [291]
• Archeus, the, [25], [26], [33]
• Arginin, [187]
• Assimilation, law of functional, [110], [213]
• Atomicities, satisfied, [185]
• Atrophy, [326]
• Attraction, energy of position, [64]
• Balance, sheet, nutritive, [118]
• Beliefs, primitive, [239]
• Bioblasts, [253]
• Biophors, [167]
• Blas, the, [25], [33]
• Blood, lavage of, [192]
• Brain, and death, [315]
• Butylic ferments, [193]
• Butyric ferments, [193]
• Calorie, [125] [note]
• Calorimeter, ice, [126];
• bomb, [128]
• Caprice, of Nature, [45]
• Cause, final, [45]
• Cells, [48], [147];
• somatic and sexual, [343]
• Cellular theory, [158] et seq.
• Centrosome, [163]
• Chromosome, [165]
• Cicatrization, [287]
• Complex, homogeneity of the, [245]
• Conductibility, [26]
• Consciousness, in brute bodies, [244] et seq.
• Continuity, principle of, [242], [247]
• Contractility, [26]
• Contraction, energy of static and dynamic, [75]
• Conservation, of energy, [58];
• of force, [58]
• Crystals, [200] et seq., [237] et seq., [281] et seq.
• Cytoplasm, [161] et seq.
• Death, apparent, [232];
• senescence of, [305] et seq.;
• cellular, [321] et seq.
• Decentralization, [24]
• Degeneration, [326]
• Destruction, functional, [106];
• organic, [211];
• of living matter, [213]
• Determinism, [49]
• Digestion, of plants and animals, [152] et seq.
• Direction, idea of, [16]
• Dominants, [33], [39], [45]
• Dyne, the, [71]
• Effort, of force, [71]
• Electrolysis, [272]
• Energetics, [39], [56];
• laws of biological, [105] et seq., [229];
• alimentary, [116] et seq.
• Energy, [37], Book ii., passim;
• origin of idea of, [57];
• theory of, [62];
• the only objective reality, [64]-5;
• and kinetic conception, [67];
• mechanical, [69], [73];
• of contraction, [75];
• kinetic, [76], [83];
• potential, [76], [83];
• virtual, [77];
• of motion and position, [79];
• thermal, and its measurements, [80]-2;
• chemical, and its measurements, [81]-2;
• chemical and potential, [83];
• materialization of, [84];
• transformations of, [85] et seq.;
• luminous, [86] et seq.;
• conservation of, [90] et seq.;
• capacity of conversion of, [93];
• in biology, [97];
• in living beings, [99] et seq.;
• physical, [99] et seq.;
• vital, [99] et seq.
• Ether, [89]
• Equivalence, law of, [91]
• Excitability, [26]-7
• Fatigue, of metals, [264]
• Ferments, butylic and butyric, [193]
• Filiation, [250]
• Finalism, [43]
• Food, a source of energy, [118] et seq.;
• thermogenic and biothermogenic types of, [131] et seq.;
• dynamogenic type of, [143];
• nitrogenous, [143];
• of animals and plants, [153] et seq.
• Force, directive, [16] et seq., [32], [39], [48];
• vital, [45];
• an anthromorphic notion, [71];
• and work, [74];
• measurement of, [71];
• plastic, [143];
• plastic and morphoplastic forces, [208]
• Form, specific, [199] et seq., [281]
• Fruits, acids of, [136]
• Gemmules, [167], [258]
• Generation, spontaneous, [249] et seq., [294] et seq.
• Globulin, [178]
• Glycerine, crystals of, [302]
• Glycogen, [108], [153] et seq.
• Gramme, [71]
• Heat, a mode of motion, [61];
• rôle of animal heat, [122];
• mechanical equivalent of, [81];
• an excretum, [114];
• a degraded form of energy, [88];
• converted into work, [92]
• Heterogeneity, [38], [61]
• Histones, [179], [182] et seq.
• Horse-power, [75]
• Hyaloplasm, [161]
• Iatro-chemistry and mechanics, [34]-5
• Idioblasts, [167]
• Infusoria, death of, [337]
• Instability, [188] et seq.
• Instinct, of life and death, [345] et seq.
• Intussusception, [291]
• Invariant, mass the first, [63]
• Irreversibility, of vital energies, [104]
• Irritability, [27], [196] et seq.
• Isodynamism, [142]
• Isomorphism, [286]
• Ka, the, [8]
• Kilogrammetre, [72], [75];
• per second, [75]
• Kilowatt, [76]
• Kinetic theory, [39], [62]
• Knot, the vital, [21]
• Leucines, [183]
• Leucites, [163]
• Life, defined, [28];
• latent, [233];
• physico-chemical theory of, [36];
• elementary, [321]
• Linin, [163]
• Mass, and matter, [63]
• Materialism, [34]
• Matter, [37], [60], [62];
• and mass, [63];
• two kinds of, [63];
• life of, [236] et seq.;
• brute and living, [249] et seq.;
• organization and constitution of, [255] et seq.;
• defined as extension, [64];
• conservation of, [65]
• “Memory,” of metals, etc., [265]
• Merotomy, [47]
• Metabolism, [117]
• Metazoa, evolution and death of, [340] et seq.
• Meteoric cosmozoa, [252]
• Micellar theory, [166] et seq.
• Microcosms, [163]
• Micro-organisms, culture of, [297]
• Mitomes, [169]
• Mobility of stars, [260]
• Modality, twofold, of soul, [12]
• Molecules, organic, [254]
• Monism, [34], Chap. iv. passim, [63]
• Montpellier, the school of, [35]
• Motion, cause of, [71];
• kinetic conception of molecular, [263]
• Morphogenesis, idea of, [46]
• Movements, internal of bodies, [262];
• Brownian, [266] et seq.
• Mutability, [80], [188] et seq.;
• of living matter, [259] et seq.;
• of brute bodies, [259] et seq.
• Necrobiosis, [326]
• Neo-vitalism, [15], [29], [32]
• Neurility, [27]
• Nickel, steels, [277]
• Nisus formativus, [46]
• Nous, the, [18], [239]
• Nucleins, [179], [180] et seq.
• Nucleo-albuminoids, [178];
• -proteids, [177] et seq.
• Nucleus, [163] et seq.;
• hexonic, [186]
• Nutrition, directed, [205], [209] et seq., [227] et seq., [290] et seq.
• Organogenesis, [282]
• Organs, organization of, [314];
• death of, [315];
• perfect, [319]
• Pangenes, [167]
• Panspermia, [252]
• Parameter, mass the mechanical, [63]
• Phenomena, vital, [44], [51], [189];
• modes of motion, [61]
• Photography, colour, [277]
• Physiology, general, [56];
• cellular, [56]
• Plants, and immortality, [330]
• Plasomes, [167]
• Plurivitalism, [25]
• Power, [70], [75]
• Principle, vital, [15] et seq.
• Properties, vital, [25], [103]
• Proteids, [178]
• Protoplasm, [109] et seq., [175] et seq., [231] et seq.;
• life in crushed, [257] et seq.
• Protozoa, immortality of, [352] et seq.
• Psyche, [239]
• Pyrozoa, [253]
• Regeneration, normal, [205];
• accidental, [206]
• Reparation, mechanism of, [288]
• Repose, functional, [109], [217] et seq.
• Reserve stuff, [106] et seq., [212], [230] et seq.
• Rachidian, soul, [12]
• Senescence, [305] et seq.
• Sensibility, in brute bodies, [244]
• Solidarity, of anatomical elements, humoral and nervous, [317]
• Soul, the, [7] et seq.
• Space, [69]
• Specificity, vital, [48]
• Spireme, [165]
• Spongioplasm, [162]
• States, initial and final, [128]
• Swelling, [167]
• Synthesis, organizing, [109]
• Tagmata, [169], [175]
• Teleology, [43]
• Tetanus, bacteria of, [193]
• Thermogenesis, [140]
• Time, [69]
• Tonus, muscular, [119]
• Trees, and immortality, [330] et seq.
• Tripod, vital, [2], [314]
• Turgescence, [168]
• Universe, the, mechanical explanation of, [60];
• the end of the, [95]
• Unity, chemical, of living beings, [173] et seq., [321];
• morphological, [321]
• Vacuoles, [113]
• Vibrion, septic, [193]
• Vis viva, [73]
• Vital properties, theory of, [29] et seq.
• Vitalism, [6], [7], Chap. iii. passim;
• physico-chemical, [29]
• Vitality, phenomena of, [216]
• Vortex, vital, [105], [120], [229] et seq.
• Vulcans, [26]-7
• Weight, energy of position, [64];
• conservation of, [65];
• movement under action of, [271] et seq.
• Work, [70], [72];
• and force, [74], [77];
• converted into heat, [92];
• physiological, [103]
• Xanthic bases, [180]
• Zones, metastable and labile, [301]

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