The physiology of digestion, with experiments on the gastric juice / By William Beaumont.

  • William Beaumont
Date:
1847
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Credit: The physiology of digestion, with experiments on the gastric juice / By William Beaumont. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The contents of both vials, kept on the bath, and nearly in the same temperature, until the next morning, were completely digested, except the few small parti- cles of vegetables, which remained almost entire. | The contents of the vials, at this time, were of the tasting peculiarly insipid, saltish and acid. After stand- ing at rest awhile, the brownish sediment subsided to- wards the bottom, while small particles of whitish col- ored, loose coagule floated about in the fluid above. The undigested particles of vegetables settled to the bottom. In the Preliminary Observations, I have endeavor- ed to maintain the proposition, that chyme is homoge- neous in its properties. It would seem from this and some other experiments, that it contains a sediment. This, however, it is believed, does not militate against are generally acknowledged to possess this charac- ter, deposit a sediment, on standing. The heavier parts subside, of course. It is not necessary to cite ex- amples. It is possible, also, that mixed food contains some adventitious, indigestible substances, which are not affected by the gastric juice. 3 ing two parcels, one in fifteen minutes and the other in three quarters of an hour, the meat only made its portion, at § o’clock, two hours after having eaten, small \
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