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

  • Combe, Andrew, 1797-1847.
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1845
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    IV. EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE GAS- TRIC JUICE AND PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION. By Witu1Am BeEav- mont, M.D., Surgeon to the United States Army. Reprinted, with Notes by ANDREW ComBE, M.D., &c. 1 vol. post 8vo. Price 7s. Alexis St Martin, the young man on whom Dr Beaumont’s experiments were Made, presented an external opening into the stomach, the result of a gunshot wound, from which, in other respects, he entirely recovered. Through the hole thus left, the interior of the stomach could be seen, and the process of digestion investigated. The experiments extended over a period of three years, and em- braced many points of practical interest in the management of diet. “ We speak advisedly when we assert that we know no more valuable contribution to physiology within our memory.”— Dublin Medical Press. “This work is of extreme importance to the physiologist and the physician; and Dr Combe has rendered a most important service to the profession in this country by pub- lishing the present edition, which is further enriched with many valuable and instructive notes.”—Kdinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal. MACLACHLAN, Stewart, & Co., Edinburgh; Simpxin, MarsHALtL, & Co., London. CHEAP REPRINTS OF AMERICAN WORKS. MENTAL HYGIENE: Or, AN EXAMINATION OF THE INTELLECT AND PASSIONS, designed to illustrate their INFLUENCE ON HEALTH AND THE DURATION OF LIFE. By Wittt1aM Sweetser, M.D., late Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, and Fellow of the Ame- rican Academy of Arts and Sciences. Royal 8vo, price ls..6d. CONTENTS. PART I, INTELLECTUAL OPERATIONS.—Cuarpr. I. INTELLECTUAL NATURE oF MAN COMPARED WITH THAT OF OTHER ANIMALS.—II., IMPORTANCE OF JUDICIOUS EXER- CISE OF THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS TO HEALTH AND HaAppiness.—III, EVILS FROM OVERTASKING THE INTELLECT.—PRACTICAL RuLES.—IV., INTELLECTUAL OPERATIONS ARE GENERALLY ASSOCIATED WITH PAsstON.—MENTAL AVOCATIONS WHICH ELICIT STRONG PASSION ARE THE MOST PREJUDICIAL.— V. DIVERSIFIED MENTAL LABOURS LEAST INJU- Rious.—VI. EVILS FROM -INORDINATE EX#®RCISE OF INTELLECT IN EARLY YEARS.—VII. SUGGESTIONS ON GENERAL PLAN -OF EARLY EDUCATION.— DANGER OF SEVERE INTELLEO- TUAL EXERTION IN OLD AGE, PART IT. PASSIONS.—Cuap. VUI. DEFINITION AND DIVISION OF TEE PASSIONS.— IX. THEIR Evits aND ADVANTAGES, AND DIFFERENCES OF THEIR FORCE AND CHARAC- TER IN DIFFERENT PERSONS,—X. THE PASSIONS MULTIPLIED AND MODIFIED IN CIVILIZED Live.—TuHeErr EFFECT MOST MANTFEST IN THE VITAL FUNCTIONS$ AND CERTAIN CONDI TIONS OF THE LATTER AWAKEN THE DIFFERENT PASSIONS.— XI. REAL AND IMAGINARY AFFLICTIONS.— MuTUAL RELATIONS AND DEPENDENCIES OF OUR PHYSICAL AND MorAL ConsTirutTions.—XII. THE PLEASURABLE PASSIONS, AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE Puysl- cAL FunctTions.— XIII. PHENOMENA.OF THE PAINFUL PASSIONS, AS MANIFESTED IN THE Bopity Funcrions.—XI1V. ANGER, 1TSs PHENOMENA AND EFFECTS.—XV. ANGER MAY BR EXCITED By BopiLty DisHasE.—X VI. FEAR, AND THE BODILY CONDITIONS WHICH FAVOUR IT.— XVII. Errects oF FEAR IN CURING DISEASES,—FASCINATION OF ANIMALS.—X VIII. DISEASES AND EVEN DEATH MAY RESULT FROM FEAR.—-TERRORS OF RELIGION, &c., OFTEN HIGHLY PREJUDICIAL,— XIX. Morpiric Errects OF FEAR CONTINUED.—SUPERSTITIOUS Fear oF Dearu.—DaNnGeR OF EXCITING. THE FEARS OF CHLLDREN.—XX, FEAR con-