A treatise on the digestion of food / by G. Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and reader on the practice of physic, in London.

  • George Fordyce
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the digestion of food / by G. Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and reader on the practice of physic, in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ i8o ] In fome animals the food is detained, as I have already mown, in cavities, before it comes into the digefting ftomach. In Mr. Hunter's paper on Digeftion, publifh- ed by the Royal Society, there is this ob- fervation, which affords very ftrong ground to found a knowledge of the caufe and ules of thefe previous ftomachs i milk fucked by a calf does not remain in any of the previous ftomachs, but paffes down inflantly into the digefting ftomach, not requiring any previous operation, but grafs remains for a length of time in the previous fto- machs. It is therefore the nature, that is to fay, the qualities of the food which renders it neceffary that it mould remain in thefe previous ftomachs. Let us confider what thefe qualities are, by obferving what food is actually accumu- lated and detained in the previous fto^ machs. Firft then, thofe animals which live entirely or moftly upon the fibrous parts of vegetables