The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins.
- Horace Fletcher
- Date:
- [1904]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Index A. B. C. Life Series, the, xxiv, 15, 47 ; explanation of, 399-407 Abdominal glands, the, 189, 190 muscles, the, 326, 388 wall, the, 364 Abernethy biscuit, 131 Acid reaction, of food, 269 Acids, stimulating properties of, 270; supplement weak action in the stomach, 270; special relation to the pancreas of, 270 Addison, Joseph, upon the work of Luigi Cornaro, 28 Adenoids, largely dietetic in origin, 148-152, 156 Afferent nerves, special duty of the peripheral terminations of, 184-185 Agriculture, U. S. Department of, 37 Albumen, digestion of, 394 Albuminoids, the, 395 Albuminous foods, minimum amount of, 74, 78 Alcoholic beverages, explanation of the use of, 252 Algarroba bean, the, 124 Alimentary canal, the, 13, 14, 15, 40; pabulum derived from, 40, 02, 117; Professor Pawlow'i condusioas concerning, 1S0 ; experimental in- •i^ation of the pathology and therapeutics of, 248, 260, 273, 275, *77 Alimentation, human, study of, 13 ; theory of, 180 Alkalies, the, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282 Alkaline reduction, 33, 34, 35, 36, 44 saliva, 33 ; its quantity increased by mastication, 96, 102, 146 Alkalinisation, 92 Altruism, placed upon a business basis, xxiv American Medical Missionary Asso- ciation, the, 390 Medical Missionary Cause, the, xxiii Physiological Society, the, 68 Anderson, Dr. William G., 54, 87, 88 Anger, causes indigestion, 7 Animal economy, 40 food, necessitates less thorough mastication than vegetable, 67, 99- 100, 173 ; influenced less than vege- table by cooking, 118 organism, the efficiency of, 58 Anthropoid apes, 115, 116 Antiperistalsis, 320, 333, 342, 945, 364; in the colon, 365-370; the question of, 377-383, 384, 3«5, 387, 3S8 Antiperistaltic waves, 305, 367, 373, 374, 37''. I Antrum, the, 307, 30X, 311, 315, 322, 323, 326, 327, 333, ||4, S4*i 360 ApepsU, 374 [409 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024674_0453.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
