- 1Preface
- 2Book I — The Frontiers of Science — General Theories of Life and De…
- 3Chapter I — Early Theories
- 4Chapter II — Animism
- 5Chapter III — Vitalism
- 6§ 1 — The Vitalism of Barthez: Its Extension
- 7§ 2 — The Theory of Vital Properties
- 8§ 3 — Scientific Neo-Vitalism
- 9§ 4 — Philosophical Neo-Vitalism
- 10Chapter IV — The Monistic Theory
- 11Chapter V — The Emancipation of Scientific Research From the Yoke o…
- 12§ 1 — Vital Phenomena in Constituted Organisms
- 13§ 2 — The Physiological Domain Properly So Called
- 14Book II — The Doctrine of Energy and the Living World
- 15Chapter I — Energy in General
- 16§ I — Matter
- 17§ 2 — Energy
- 18§ 3 — Mechanical Energy
- 19§ 4 — Thermal Energy
- 20§ 5 — Chemical Energy
- 21§ 6 — Transformations of Energy
- 22§ 7 — The Principle of the Conservation of Energy
- 23§ 8 — Carnot’s Principle. Its Generality
- 24Chapter II — Energy in Biology
- 25§ 1 — Energy at Play in Living Beings. Common or Physical Energies.…
- 26§ 2 — First Law of Biological Energetics
- 27§ 3 — Second Law of Biological Energetics
- 28§ 4 — The Third Law of Biological Energetics
- 29Chapter III — Alimentary Energetics
- 30§ 1 — Food, a Source of Energy and Matter
- 31§ 2 — Measurement of the Supply of Alimentary Energy
- 32§ 3 — Different Types of Foods. The Regular, Biothermogenic Type an…
- 33§ 4 — Food Considered Exclusivelyy as Source of Heat
- 34§ 5 — The Plastic Rôle of Food
- 35Book III — The Characters Common to Living Beings
- 36Chapter I — The Doctrine of Vital Unity
- 37Chapter II — Morphological Unity of Living Beings
- 38§ 1 — The Cellular Theory. First Period: Division of the Organism I…
- 39§ 2 — The Second Period: The Division of the Cell
- 40§ 3 — The Physical Constitution of Living Matter. The Micellar Theory
- 41§ 4 — The Individuality of Complex Beings. Law of the Constitution…
- 42Chapter III — The Chemical Unity of Living Beings
- 43§ 1 — The Characteristic Substances of the Protoplasm. The Nucleo-P…
- 44§ 2 — Constitution of Nucleins
- 45§ 3 — The Constitution of Histones and Albumins
- 46Chapter IV — The Twofold Conditioning of Vital Phenomena. Irritability
- 47§ 1 — Extrinsic Conditions
- 48§ 2 — Intrinsic Conditions. The Law of the Constitution of Organs a…
- 49Chapter V — The Specific Form. Its Acquisition. Its Reparation
- 50§ 1 — The Specific Form
- 51§ 2 — The Acquisition and Re-establishment of the Specific Form
- 52Chapter VI — Nutrition
- 53§ 1 — Effect of the Vital Activity. Destruction or Growth?
- 54§ 2 — The Two Categories of Vital Phenomena
- 55§ 3 — Correlation of Two Orders of Vital Facts
- 56§ 4 — Characteristics of Nutrition
- 57Book IV — The Life of Matter
- 58Chapter I — Universal Life. Opinions of Philosophers and Poets
- 59§ 1 — Primitive Beliefs. Ideas of the Poets
- 60§ 2 — Opinion of the Philosophers
- 61Chapter II — Origin of Brute Matter in Living Matter
- 62Chapter III — Organization and Chemical Composition of Living and B…
- 63Chapter IV — Evolution and Mutability of Living Matter and Brute Ma…
- 64§ 1 — The Movement of Particles and Molecules in Brute Bodies
- 65§ 2 — The Brownian Movement
- 66§ 3 — The Internal Activity of Bodies
- 67§ 4 — Internal Activity of Alloys
- 68Chapter V — Specific Form. Living Bodies and Crystals
- 69§ 2 — Cicatrization in Living Beings and in Crystals
- 70Chapter VI — Nutrition in the Living Being and in the Crystal
- 71Chapter VII — Generation in Brute Bodies and Living Bodies. Spontan…
- 72Book V — Senescence and Death
- 73Chapter I — Various Ways of Regarding Death
- 74Chapter II — The Process of Death
- 75Chapter III — Physical and Chemical Characters of Cellular Death. N…
- 76Chapter IV — The Apparent Perennity of Complex Individuals
- 77Chapter V — The Immortality of the Protozoa
- 78Chapter VI — Lethality of the Metazoa and of Differentiated Cells
- 79Chapter VII — Man. The Instinct of Life and the Instinct of Death
- 80§ 1 — Disease
- 81§ 2 — Old Age
- 82§ 3 — Disharmonies in Human Nature
- 83§ 4 — The Instinct of Life and the Instinct of Death
Life and Death
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