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Irritability

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Irritability

Max Verworn

315 pages~6 hr 16 min read14 chapters$4.99
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Poke an amoeba and it flinches; shine light on a leaf and it responds. Max Verworn examines irritability, the basic power of living matter to react to a stimulus, tracing its history, nature, and the process of excitation. A foundational study of how life senses and answers its world. Discover the reflex at the root of biology.

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14 chapters

  1. 1IRRITABILITY A PHYSIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GENERAL EFFECT OF STIMULI IN LIVING SUBSTANCE
  2. 2THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION.
  3. 3PREFACE
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5CHAPTER I THE HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT
  6. 6CHAPTER II THE NATURE OF STIMULATION
  7. 7CHAPTER III THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STIMULI
  8. 8CHAPTER IV THE GENERAL EFFECT OF STIMULATION
  9. 9CHAPTER V THE ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS OF EXCITATION
  10. 10CHAPTER VI CONDUCTIVITY
  11. 11CHAPTER VII THE REFRACTORY PERIOD AND FATIGUE
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII INTERFERENCE OF EXCITATIONS
  13. 13CHAPTER IX THE PROCESSES OF DEPRESSION
  14. 14FOOTNOTES:
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