Life and Death

About this eBook

Author

Dastre, A. (Albert), 1844-1917

Title

Life and death

Credits

Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QH: Science: Natural history

Subject

Life (Biology)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 65699

Release Date

June 25, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes
2. 2.LIFE AND DEATH
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.BOOK I. THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE—GENERAL THEORIES OF LIFE AND DEATH—THEIR SUCCESSIVE TRANSFORMATIONS.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. EARLY THEORIES .
7. 7.CHAPTER II. ANIMISM.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. VITALISM. — § 1. The Vitalism of Barthez: its Extension. — § 2. The Theory of Vital Properties. — § 3. Scientific Neo-Vitalism. — § 4. Philosophical Neo-Vitalism.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. THE MONISTIC THEORY.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. THE EMANCIPATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FROM THE YOKE OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES. — § 1. Vital Phenomena in Constituted Organisms. — § 2. The Physiological Domain properly so called.
11. 11.BOOK II. THE DOCTRINE OF ENERGY AND THE LIVING WORLD.
12. 12.CHAPTER I. ENERGY IN GENERAL. — § I. Matter. — § 2. Energy. — § 3. Mechanical Energy. — § 4. Thermal Energy. — § 5. Chemical Energy. — § 6. Transformations of Energy. — § 7. The Principle of the Conservation of Energy. — § 8. Carnot’s Principle. Its Generality.
13. 13.CHAPTER II. ENERGY IN BIOLOGY. — § 1. Energy at play in Living Beings. Common or Physical Energies. Vital Energies. — § 2. First Law of Biological Energetics. — § 3. Second Law of Biological Energetics. — § 4. The Third Law of Biological Energetics.
14. 14.CHAPTER III. ALIMENTARY ENERGETICS. — § 1. Food, a Source of Energy and Matter. — § 2. Measurement of the Supply Of Alimentary Energy. — § 3. Different Types of Foods. The Regular, Biothermogenic Type and the Irregular, Thermogenic Type. — § 4. Food considered exclusivelyy as Source of Heat. — § 5. The Plastic Rôle of Food.
15. 15.BOOK III.
16. 16.CHAPTER I. THE DOCTRINE OF VITAL UNITY.
17. 17.CHAPTER II. MORPHOLOGICAL UNITY OF LIVING BEINGS. — § 1. The Cellular Theory. First Period: Division of the Organism into Cells. — § 2. The Second Period: the Division Of the Cell. — § 3. The Physical Constitution of Living Matter. The Micellar Theory. — § 4. The Individuality of Complex Beings. Law of the Constitution of Organisms.
18. 18.CHAPTER III. THE CHEMICAL UNITY OF LIVING BEINGS. — § 1. The Characteristic Substances of the Protoplasm. The Nucleo-Proteids. — § 2. Constitution of Nucleins. — § 3. The Constitution of Histones and Albumins.
19. 19.CHAPTER IV. THE TWOFOLD CONDITIONING OF VITAL PHENOMENA. IRRITABILITY. — § 1. Extrinsic Conditions. — § 2. Intrinsic Conditions. The Law of the Constitution of Organs and Apparatus.
20. 20.CHAPTER V. THE SPECIFIC FORM. ITS ACQUISITION. ITS REPARATION. — § 1. The Specific Form. — § 2. The Acquisition and Re-establishment of the Specific Form.
21. 21.CHAPTER VI. NUTRITION. — § 1. Effect of the Vital Activity. Destruction or Growth? — § 2. THE TWO CATEGORIES OF VITAL PHENOMENA. — § 3. Correlation of Two Orders of Vital Facts. — § 4. Characteristics of Nutrition.
22. 22.BOOK IV. THE LIFE OF MATTER.
23. 23.CHAPTER I. UNIVERSAL LIFE. OPINIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS AND POETS. — § 1. Primitive Beliefs. Ideas of the Poets. — § 2. Opinion of the Philosophers.
24. 24.CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OF BRUTE MATTER IN LIVING MATTER.
25. 25.CHAPTER III. ORGANIZATION AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF LIVING AND BRUTE MATTER.
26. 26.CHAPTER IV. EVOLUTION AND MUTABILITY OF LIVING MATTER AND BRUTE MATTER. — § 1. The Movement of Particles and Molecules in Brute Bodies. — § 2. The Brownian Movement . — § 3. The Internal Activity of Bodies. — § 4. Internal Activity of Alloys.
27. 27.CHAPTER V. Specific Form. Living Bodies and Crystals. — § 2. Cicatrization in Living Beings and in Crystals.
28. 28.CHAPTER VI. NUTRITION IN THE LIVING BEING AND IN THE CRYSTAL.
29. 29.CHAPTER VII. GENERATION IN BRUTE BODIES AND LIVING BODIES. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION.
30. 30.BOOK V. SENESCENCE AND DEATH.
31. 31.CHAPTER I. VARIOUS WAYS OF REGARDING DEATH.
32. 32.CHAPTER II. THE PROCESS OF DEATH.
33. 33.CHAPTER III. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERS OF CELLULAR DEATH. NECROBIOSIS. GROWING OLD.
34. 34.CHAPTER IV. THE APPARENT PERENNITY OF COMPLEX INDIVIDUALS.
35. 35.CHAPTER V. THE IMMORTALITY OF THE PROTOZOA.
36. 36.CHAPTER VI. LETHALITY OF THE METAZOA AND OF DIFFERENTIATED CELLS.
37. 37.CHAPTER VII. MAN. THE INSTINCT OF LIFE AND THE INSTINCT OF DEATH. — § 1. Disease. — § 2. Old Age. — § 3. Disharmonies in Human Nature. — § 4. The Instinct of Life and the Instinct of Death.
38. 38.INDEX OF AUTHORS.
39. 39.INDEX OF SUBJECTS. — FOOTNOTES:

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