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Table of Contents

I. The power of the body to destroy heat --
1. Experiments and observations in an heated room / Charles Blagden --
2. Further experiments and observations in an heated room / Charles Blagden --
3. Of the heat, etc. of animals and vegetables / John Hunter --
II. Le Miliue intérieur --
4. Traité de chimie anatomique et physiologique normale et pathologique/treatise of anatomical and physiological chemistry, normal and pathologic / Charles Robin and F. Verdeil --
5. Introduction of the method / Claude Bernard --
6. Leçons sur les propriétés physiologiques et les altérations pathologiques des liquides de l'organisme/Lectures on the physiological properties and the pathological alterations of the liquids of the organism / Claude Bernard --
7. Leçons sur les propriétés physiologiques et les altérations pathologiques des liquides de l'organisme/Lectures on the physiological properties and the pathological alterations of the liquids of the organism / Claude Bernard --
8. Chapter I, Experimental considerations common to living things and inorganic bodies / Claude Bernard --
9. Leçons sur le phenomènes le la vie, communs aux animaux et aux vegetaus/Lessons on the phenomena of life common to animals and vegetables / Claude Bernard --
10. The teleologic mechanism of living nature / E. Pflüger --
11. The influence of the environment on the composition of blood of aquatic animals / Leon Fredericq --
12. Functions of defense / C. Ricket --
III. Homeostasis --
13. The fitness of the environment : an inquiry into the biological significance of the properties of matter / Lawrence J. Henderson --
14. Claude Bernard's conception of the internal environment / J.S. Haldane --
15. The physiological basis of thirst / Walter B. Cannon --
16. Studies on the conditions of activity in endocrine glands / W.B. Cannon, M.A. McIver and S.W. Bliss --
17. Some general feature of endocrine influence on metabolism / W.B. Cannon --
18. Physiological regulation of normal states : some tentative postulates concerning biological homeostasis / W.B. Cannon --
19. Organization for physiological homeostasis / W.B. Cannon --
20. Displacement of equilibrium / Alfred J. Lotka --
IV. Closing the feedback loop --
21. The thermal homeostasis of man / T.H. Benzinger --
22. Feedback theory and its application to biological systems with a commentary by B.R Wilkins / K.E. Machin.

Edition Notes

Selections from treatises and periodicals 1775-1964.

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Stroudsburg, Pa
Series
Benchmark papers in human physiology

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L. L. Langley

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xi, 362p.

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OL14714440M

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