Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    affected, and that, notwithstanding the di- gestion was perfectly re-established, the symptoms described were not then relieved, still I maintain that much will have been gained—the first step will have been ad- vanced towards effecting a cm'e ; for now the medicines intended to act on the heart may be administered with every hope of a satisfactory result, since we have reason to feel assured that the' whole of their thera- peutical effect will be produced; for it is only by the aid of the organs of digestion that they can become absorbed, and so find their toay to the blood, by which means their action on the heart is brought about. It has been jocosely observed, referring to charity dinners, that the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach; and this, you see, is hterally true. The same reasoning apphes, of coarse, to other organs on which no action can be produced direct, but only through the blood. y(lt is by the blood that new tissue is formed, and the various parts of the body are kept nourished. Food taken into the stomach is passed through several processes,