| Description | Notes on experimental physiology at the University of Edinburgh and taken down by Frank W. Stuart, 1916 - 1917. The notebook contains printed extracts explaining how to carry out each experiment, opposite his own notes and diagrams taken down during the experiment in question. Contains notes on experiments on
Amoeboid and ciliary movement
Muscular contractions
Superposition
Effect of several successive stimuli; tetanus
Effects of fatigue on muscle
Rate of transmission of nerve impulse
Blocking by a galvanic current
Extensibility of muscle
Cardiographic tracing
Sphygmograph patterns for pulse in arteries
Apnoea
Reaction time in man
Contraction of plain muscle
Perfusion of frog heart
Peculiarities of cardiac contraction
Contraction of heart (Stannius' experiment)
Cardiac nerves
Perimetry
Slow muscle fatigue
Estimation of contraction or dilatation of vessels by measurement of perfusion rate
Perfusion of frog heart
Stannius' experiment
Effect of summation of stimuli
Electrotonic effect on excitability
Arterial pressure in man
Cutaneous sensations
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