Annual Register (Volume 1911-1912)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...the problems of metabolism and nutrition. The student makes a complete nutritive balance, based upon a series of actual feeding experiments, including the analysis of a standard dietary, the qualitative and quantitative examination of the feces and urine, the estimation of the total and differential nitrogens and the determination of respiratory quotients. In relation to the question of nutrition the distinctive physiologic conditions of successive ages of human life are discussed. The last three-quarters of the year are occupied with the discussion and laboratory study of the physiology of the nervous system, special attention being paid to the observation and testing of special sense phenomena, cerebral localization, etc. A laboratory reference library is accessible to the students for purposes of collateral reading. COURSES OF STUDY (See p. 31) First Year 1. General Cellular Physiology Professors Beard And Wilcox. And Dr. Sedgwick Four and one-half credits (twelve lecture and recitation periods, six laboratory periods) First quarter The study of the physiologic components of the animal body; the physiologic and physical properties of the tissue-cells in gen-eral; the specializations of function; the nutritive media, including methods of blood examination. t. The Musculo-nervous Mechanisms Professors Beard And Wilcox Four and one-half credits (twelve lecture and recitation periods, six laboratory periods) First quarter The study of the phenomena of muscle and nerve action, including the principles of nerve control in general. The student is introduced in this course to the technique of experimental study. J. Systemic Physiology Professors Beard And Wilcox And Dr. Sedgwick Four and one-half credits (twelve lecture and recitation periods, six laboratory per...