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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![Potato, made digestible by saliva, 20; if masticated, need not produce fat, 21; experiments with, 38, 102; yields abundant sugar by long- continued mastication, 142, 146 Potatoes, boiled, 143, 172 Poverty, traced to perversion of nu- trition, 73 Proteid, demanded by the appetite, xxxii; the putrid decomposition of, 47; minimum amount of, 74; 78, 79. Asiatics consume smaller pro- portion of, 82, 83, 85, 98, 100, 272, 394 , the high, xxxii, xxxiii , the low,xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii digestion, perfect, 394, 395 molecule, the, isolation of the tryptophane element of, 47 Physiology, experimental, 249; can make no pretence to guide the field of medicine, 251; merely confirms the precepts of instinct, 251 Psychic environment, 12 excitation, 259 influence, in digestion, 180-283 juice, the, 213, 257, 267 secretion, 261 stimulation, 249 Pultaceous foods, 95, 97 Pyloric sphincter, the, movements of, 3i4 Pylorus, the, stands guard over the intestines, 139, 141; observations of Fallopius upon, 302 ; ideas of early writers concerning, 303 ; later experiments, 304, 307, 308, 315, 316, 3i7> 325, 326, 328, 330, 33i, 332, 333, 34o, 34i, 36o Rabbit, the, experiments upon, 344, 359, 37i [ 42 Rage, effect of, 388 Raiser, experiments of, 359, 371 Rectal injections, stimulating effect on movements of small intestine of, 367 Rectum, the, 374, 379, 382 Reed, Dr. Major Walter (martyr to science), 70 Regina Margherita Laboratory, the, summit Monte Rosa, 64, 68 Regurgitation, 35 Rhinitis, 144, 148, 149 Rhythmic segmentation, of the intes- tinal contents, 347-355, 35$, 360, 362, 383, 386 Rice, 82, 132 Rickets, 144 Rigg's disease, 159, 163 Rjasanzew, Professor, experiments of, 275 Roberts, Sir William, 75, 147 Rockefeller, John D., xxxv Institute of Preventive Medi- cine, the, 68 Rollbewegung, 345 Rontgen rays, the, Dr. Cannon's studies with, 180, 284, 287-300, 301- 341, 342-388 Roosevelt, President Theodore, 70 Root, Secretary of War, Elihu, 70 Rosa, Monte, 64, 68 Rossbach, experiments of, 305, 309, 311, 313, 314 Roux, experiments of, 314, 315, 327, 328 Royal Society, the, 68 Rumination, 35, 98 Russell, Dr. William, 145 Russia, physicians in, 260; food in, 267, 272 Russian Imperial Military School of Medicine, the, 68 peasant, the, 270 2]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024674_0466.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
