Class

I.-functions that serve for the preservation of the individual.- (Individual life.)

Order I.

Functions which assimilate the aliment by which the body is nourished.

(Assimilating, internal, or digestive functions.)

Genus I.-digestion Extracts the nutritive part.

Reception of the food.

Mustication.

Solution by the saliva.

Deglutition.

Digestion in the stomach.

----------------------- duodenum.

-----------------------intestines.

Excretion of the faeces and of the urine.

Genus II.- Absorption Carries it into the mass of hu-mours.

Inhalation of chyle.

-------------lymph.

Action of vessels.

--- glands.

-------------the thoracic duct.

Genus Iii-Circulation Propels it towards the organs.

Action of the heart.

------------------ arteries.

---------------capillary vessels.

--------------- veins.

Genus IV.-Respiration Combines it with atmospheric oxygen.

Action of the parietes of the thorax.

------------------ lungs.

Alteration of the air.

--------------in the blood.

Disengagement of animal heat.

Genus V.- Secretion Causes it to pass through several modifications.

Exhalation.

Secretion by follicles.

---------------- glands.

Genus VI.- Nutrition Applies it to organs, to which it is to supply growth, and re-. store their loss.

Different in every part according to the peculiar composition of each.

(Class i. Continued.)

Order II.

Functions which form connexions with surrounding objects.

(External or relative functions.)

Genus I.-sensations Inform the being of their pre-sence.

Organs

The Sight.

Hearing.

Smell.

Taste.

Feeling.

Action of nerves.

-------------the brain.

Human understanding.

Sleep and watching.

Dreaming and sleep walking.

Sympathy.

Habit.

Genus II.-Motions Approach towards or remove it from them.

Organs and muscular motion.

The skeleton.

Articulations.

Place.

Progressive motions.

Walking.

Running.

Jumping.

Swimming.

Flying.

Creeping.

Genus Iii.-The Voice and

Speech Cause it to communicate with si- milar beings, without change of place.

The Voice

Articulated, or Speech.

Modulated, or Singing.

Stammering.

Lisping.

Dumbness.

Ventriloquism.

Class II - Function That Serve For The Preservation Of The Species.-(L.ifE Of The Species.)

Order I.

Functions which require the concurrence of both sexes, as

Conception' and Generation

General differences of the sexes.

Hermaphrodism.

Systems relative to generation.

Order II.

Functions which exclusively be-long to females, as

Gestation.,

Of the uterus in a state of impregnation.

History of the embryo.

-------------------- foetus and its membranes.

Delivery.

On the uterus after delivery.

The lochiae.

Lactation.

Action of the breasts.

Milk.

Growth.

Infancy.-Dentition.-Ossification

Puberty.-Menstruation

Adolescence.

Youth.

Virility .

Temperaments.

Sanguine.

Muscular.

Biliary melancholic.

Lymphatic.

Nervous.

Idiosyncracy.

Human race.

European Arab.

Negro.

Mongul.

Hyperborean.

Decrease

Age of decrease.

Old age.

Decrepitude.

Death.

Putrefaction.

The splendid work of M. Vicq dazyr on the Brain furnishes us with the following table of the functions, or the proper characters of living bodies. These are,