PROLEGOMENA.


GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON ORGANIC TEXTURE.

Section I.
1st. Of the organic texture of animals.
2d. Of simple textures, in general.
3d. Of organs, in general.
4th. Of the apparatus, in general.[4]
Section II.
1st. Of the properties of texture.
2d. Division of the properties of texture.Extensibility.
Contractility.1st. By want of extension.
2d. By horny hardening.
3d. Characters of the properties of texture.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS UPON LIFE.

Section I.
1st. Of life and its functions.
2d. Classification of functionsOf those relating to the individual.Animal functions.
Organic functions.
Of those relating to the species.Functions of the male.
Functions of the female.
Functions relating to the union of the sexes, andthe product of this union.
3d. Of the differences and relations that exist between the two classes of functions.
4th. Of the differences and relations that exist between the two orders of the first class.
5th. Of the differences and relations that exist between the three orders of the first class.
Section II.
1st. Of the vital properties.
2d. Division of the vital propertiesAnimal propertiesSensibility.
Contractility.
Organic propertiesSensibility.
Sensible and insensible contractility.
3d. Characters of the vital properties.
4th. Of the causes which modify theHabit.
Sex.
Climate.
Seasons.
Age, &c.
5th. Of the peculiar differences of the vitalproperties, in each simple texture, in each individualOf that which is called individual life.
6th. Of the general differences of the vitalproperties in different individualsOf temperament.
Of the passions.
Of the character.
7th. Sympathies of vital properties.
8th. Division of sympathiesAnimal sympathiesOf sensibility.
Of contractility.
Organic sympathiesOf sensible contractility.
Of insensible contractility.

OF THE FUNCTIONS.