The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition

EXPERIMENTALLY ASSISTED BY DR. ERNEST VAN SOMEREN, M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., _of Venice, Italy_ & DR. HUBERT HIGGINS, M.A., M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., _of Cambridge, England_

When the secret of the potency for good of a rationally economic alimentation was revealed to the author, was confirmed by several colleagues of different ages and both sexes, a...

In adults; or, in children after the eruption of teeth and the ingestion of solid food: The non-liquid and non-gaseous waste of the human body, which, in its normal state, is no...

What actually happens is this: Food, as it is masticated, slowly passes to the back of the mouth, and collects in the glosso-epiglottidean folds, where it remains in contact wit...

Numerical data were obtained in several cases, but it is not proposed to deal with these in detail here, as they need the supplementary study which will be shortly referred to.

[Notwithstanding the report of the Cambridge examination of the claims for an economic nutrition advanced by the authors, American physiologists were still doubtful if a nitroge...

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Turning now to animal food it has to be remarked that while in the raw state it may be readily digestible with little or no previous mastication, since massive pieces of it are...

4. _The early agricultural age._--All the existing primitive races which have attained to the cultivation of the soil may be regarded as belonging to this period. Previously to...

_The presence of masses of imperfectly masticated food in the stomach may cause disturbance either mechanically or by reason of their imperviousness to the gastric juices._--We...

_The jaw-bones._--If the jaws are not adequately exercised in youth by mastication they fail to grow to their normal size and shape, and there is apt in consequence to be overcr...

Animal food does not need the same amount of mastication as vegetable food, since it is not digested in the mouth, though some contend that the mixture of proteid with alkaline...

The experiences of daily life teach us from the outset, that the activity of the salivary glands begins even before the introduction of food into the mouth. With an empty stomac...

In view of the importance of the act of eating, which even now is apparent, but which will become still more obvious when the succeeding periods of secretion are investigated, w...

I give also a series of figures obtained by Dr. Lobassoff in analogous experiments. Into the dog’s stomach 25 pieces of flesh (100 grams) were brought. The flesh remained two ho...

As a further illustration, I may be permitted to give an instance from my own personal experience. After an illness with which a transient but high fever was associated, althoug...

With the establishment of mental effect upon the secretion of juice the influence of condiments enters upon a new phase. The conclusion had already been empirically arrived at t...

A discussion of some further medical questions may here be taken up. The first concerns the therapeutic use of the neutral and alkaline salts of sodium. In clinical, pharmacolog...

The X-ray method lends itself less successfully to the study of deglutition in man than in the other animals we have studied. The thickness of the thorax, the distance of the œs...

2. _Movements of the pyloric sphincter._--Rossbach mars his otherwise careful work by declaring that the pylorus is tightly closed during the whole digestive period of from four...

The absence of movement in the fundus would seem to give the food during its stay there little opportunity to become mixed with the gastric juices, and thus to undergo peptic di...

The effect of the process of rhythmic segmentation proves it an admirable mechanism. The food over and over again is brought into closest contact with the intestinal walls by th...

In the transverse colon, which is free from the slowly moving rings, the antiperistaltic waves have full sway. In the region of the tonic rings an infrequent or even a slowly pe...

One of the splendid results of an economic nutrition, attained by following the natural requirements and impulses, is the curing of many diseases, among them several forms of co...

Cannon, Dr. W. B., 7, 12; on “Swallowing and Movements of the Stomach and Intestines,” 284-300; on the “Movements of the Stomach Studied by means of the Röntgen Rays,” 301-341;...

Nutrition, economic, experiments upon problem of, ix, x, 48-52; active interest now taken in, x; the financial saving the least of the profits in, xi; the key to England’s welfa...