A group of organs stretching from the MOUTH to the ANUS, serving to breakdown foods, assimilate nutrients, and eliminate waste. In humans, the digestive system includes the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT and the accessory glands (LIVER; BILIARY TRACT; PANCREAS).
    

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Angier's Emulsion : the original and standard preparation of petroleum.

For convalescents prescribe Angier's Emulsion : improves appetite, digestion, nutrition, acceptable to the most delicate stomach.

Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion / By William Beaumont. Reprinted from the Plattsburgh edition, with notes by Andrew Combe.

For its tonic and reconstructive effects prescribe Angier's Emulsion : aids digestion, assimilation and nutrition, tones the nervous system, hastens convalescence.

Die Anatomie der Araber. 1, Die Nomenklatur des Verdauungstraktes : eine philologische und kulturhistorische Studie / von Theodor Frankel.

The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. Vol. 3, A compilation of paintings on the normal and pathologic anatomy of the digestive system / prepared by Frank H. Netter ; edited by Ernst Oppenheimer.

Des corps étrangers des voies digestives / par Camille Mignon.

Feeding.

Clinical nutrition : dietary fibre. Part 1.

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Die Anatomie der Araber. 1, Die Nomenklatur des Verdauungstraktes : eine philologische und kulturhistorische Studie / von Theodor Frankel.

The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. Vol. 3, A compilation of paintings on the normal and pathologic anatomy of the digestive system / prepared by Frank H. Netter ; edited by Ernst Oppenheimer.

Des corps étrangers des voies digestives / par Camille Mignon.

Feeding.

Clinical nutrition : dietary fibre. Part 1.