I. The power of the body to destroy heat --

1. Experiments and observations in an heated room / Charles Blagden --

2. Further experiments and observations in an heated room / Charles Blagden --

3. Of the heat, etc. of animals and vegetables / John Hunter --

II. Le Miliue intérieur --

4. Traité de chimie anatomique et physiologique normale et pathologique/treatise of anatomical and physiological chemistry, normal and pathologic / Charles Robin and F. Verdeil --

5. Introduction of the method / Claude Bernard --

6. Leçons sur les propriétés physiologiques et les altérations pathologiques des liquides de l'organisme/Lectures on the physiological properties and the pathological alterations of the liquids of the organism / Claude Bernard --

7. Leçons sur les propriétés physiologiques et les altérations pathologiques des liquides de l'organisme/Lectures on the physiological properties and the pathological alterations of the liquids of the organism / Claude Bernard --

8. Chapter I, Experimental considerations common to living things and inorganic bodies / Claude Bernard --

9. Leçons sur le phenomènes le la vie, communs aux animaux et aux vegetaus/Lessons on the phenomena of life common to animals and vegetables / Claude Bernard --

10. The teleologic mechanism of living nature / E. Pflüger --

11. The influence of the environment on the composition of blood of aquatic animals / Leon Fredericq --

12. Functions of defense / C. Ricket --

III. Homeostasis --

13. The fitness of the environment : an inquiry into the biological significance of the properties of matter / Lawrence J. Henderson --

14. Claude Bernard's conception of the internal environment / J.S. Haldane --

15. The physiological basis of thirst / Walter B. Cannon --

16. Studies on the conditions of activity in endocrine glands / W.B. Cannon, M.A. McIver and S.W. Bliss --

17. Some general feature of endocrine influence on metabolism / W.B. Cannon --

18. Physiological regulation of normal states : some tentative postulates concerning biological homeostasis / W.B. Cannon --

19. Organization for physiological homeostasis / W.B. Cannon --

20. Displacement of equilibrium / Alfred J. Lotka --

IV. Closing the feedback loop --

21. The thermal homeostasis of man / T.H. Benzinger --

22. Feedback theory and its application to biological systems with a commentary by B.R Wilkins / K.E. Machin.