Irritability and Contractility of Muscle

The student is determining the effect of after-load on the work done on a frog's muscle (source: Not Just Any Medical School by Horace W. Davenport)

Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever: together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology.

Includes two memoirs (p. 171-252) on the laws and on the principle of irritability, translated by Mr. Woodhouse from the French of Dr. Girtanner. The memoirs appeared originally in Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et sur les arts, 1790, vol. xxxvi, p. 422-440; vol. xxxvii, p. 139-154.

Réflexions sur la chaleur animale : pour servir de supplément à la seconde partie des Recherches sur différens points de physiologie, &c. /

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Erregung und lähmung, eine allgemeine physiologie der reizwirkungen,

The greater part of the contents of this book was included in the author's Silliman lectures, delivered at Yale in October, 1911, and published under title: Irritability, a physiological analysis of the general effect of stimuli in living substances, New Haven, 1913; but sufficient material has been added to make a practically new work. cf. Vorwort.