Book 5 — 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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