Volume 1

The physiology of digestion, considered with relation to the principles of dietetics / By Andrew Combe.

  • Andrew Combe
Date:
1836
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    Coffee, 209, 307, 312. Colon described, 178. Condiments, 150. Constitution, food ought to vary according to, 252. Susceptible of be- ing greatly modified by regimen, 279. Consumption, pulmonary, how productive of leanness of the body, 167. Often the result of mismanagement of diet in childhood, 266, 276. Cornaro, 226. Costiveness, causes of, 159, 239, 326. How removable, 329. Cumberland, Richard, beneficial effects of his temperate habits, 299. Deffand, Madame de, quoted, 19. Deglutition of food, 55. Diet. See Food. Meals. ; Dietetics, principles of, viewed in relation to the laws of digestion, 187. Digestion vigorous and rapid in proportion to the quantity of nourish- ment required by the body, 22. Organs of, described, 58, et seq. Its wonderful power of reducing the most opposite varieties of food to the same substance, 58. Nervous energy essential to, 83, 296. Different theories of, 109. Is a chemico-vital process, 111. Con- ditions requisite for it—l. A sufficiency of gastric juice, 112; 2. A temperature of 98° or 100°, 119; and, 3. Gentle agi- tation of the contents of the stomach, 121. Aided by laughter and cheerfulness, 126. IJ] performed when previous meal re- mains in stomach, 129. Comparative digestibility of different kinds of food, 133. Time required for digestion of the same article different in different states of the body, 136. Animal food more digestible than vegetable, 118, 138, 281, 283 ; and why, 140. A proper selection of food not the only requisite of good digestion, 188. Is the temperature of the stomach raised during digestion? 146. Vegetable food partly digested in the intestines, 180. Vigorous in youth, 272. Retarded by bodily or mental exertion immediately before or after eating, 288, e¢ seg. Intellectual vivacity diminished while digestion is going on, 290, 296. Influence of the mind upon digestion, 296, et seq. Dinner, proper time for, 199. Necessity of early dinner-hours for chil- dren, 204. Fashionable late dinner-hours, 207. Relaxation neces- sary after dinner, 208. Time for dinner ought to vary with cir- cumstances, 209. Second courses, 226. Drams at, 323. Dressmakers, an improvement in the regulation of their establishments suggested, 230. Drink necessary to supply the waste of the liquid portions of the body, 36. Bad effects when withheld, 37. Absorbed directly frum the stomach into the system, 38, 79, 117, 140, 195. Temperature of drinks considered, 308. Water asa drink, 314. Wine and other fer. mented liquors, 314, Spirits hurtful, 316. Sudden changes of its temperature hurtful to the teeth, 45. See Liquid. Thirst. Dunglison’s Elements of Hygiéne quoted and recommended, 305, 311. Duodenum, 62, 170.