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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    Gastric Juice, 61, 87. Secreted only when there is food in the stomach, 93. Its chemical composition, 96. Acts only upon dead inorganic substances, 97. Its power of coagulating milk and albumen, 100, 116. Its antiseptic quality, 100, 117. Adapted in different animals to the nature of the food, 101. Modified in the same individual ac- cording to the wants of the system, 104. On which of its elements does its solvent power depend ? ib. The amount secreted always in proportion to the quantity of aliment required by the body, 105, 220. Its secretion retarded by disagreeable mental emotions and feverishness, 106, 322. Indispensable to digestion, 112. Tho- roughly mixed with the food in the stomach, 124. Adaptation of food to its qualities in different individuals, 141. Quantity secreted at each meal, 289. Time occupied by its secretion, 295. Gizzard of granivorous birds, 50, 71. Grief enfeebles digestion, 126, 297. Growth, periods of, require an increased supply of food in vegetables, 8 ; and animals, 9, 22, 221. Diet during, 315. Gullet, 55, Head, Sir Francis, quoted on the quantities of cold water drunk at the brunnens of Nassau, 196; and on the prejudicial effects of intem- perate eating, 222. Heidler, case quoted from, 229. Herbivorous animals have large organs of digestion, 68, 140, 145. Their gastric juice, 102. The digestion of their food partly effect- ed in the intestines, 180. Hippocrates, his theory of digestion, 109. Horse, should not have diet suddenly changed, 103. Digestion of the, 181. Is not fed immediately before or after a journey, 293. May sometimes drink a little though perspiring, 313. Hufeland quoted on the beneficial influence of laughter in aiding diges- tion, 127. Hunger, necessity of the sense of, as a warning that food is required, 10, 218. An affection of the brain, 12. Allayed by narcotics, 14, 15. Influenced by mental emotions, 16. By what condition of the sto- mach is it excited? 17. Felt keenly when the body is in need of repair, 19, et seg. Sharpened by muscular exercise, 19, 21. Its absence during fever a wise arrangement, 31. Susceptible of being trained, 32. Error of confounding it with taste, 33. Morbid cravings of hunger when food is not required, 34. Instances of ex. traordinary voracity, 35. Periodicity of, 189. Does not return till stomach kas been for some time empty, 190. Hydra, stomach of the, 63. Ices and ice-creams hurtful after a meal, 309. Ice useful in warm’ wea- ther when used with caution, 31]. Examples in Italy and Virginia, ib. fleum, 177. Indigestion, why prevalent among sedentary persons, 29, 301. Injures the teeth, 47. Often beneficial in warding off more serious diseases, 245. Caused by grief, anxiety, and over-study, 126, 297.