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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    CHAPTEE IV. Healthy Digestion—How it is Performed—Impobt- ANCB OF THE SaLIVA AND GASTRIC JuICE. To make the remarks in the foregoinc; chapter more clear to my readers, in a few words I shall endeavour, as far as may be, to acquaint them with the process of digestion in the human body, when the chief importance of the stomach and its co-operators will be readily re- cognised, and the intelligent reader cannot fail to be convinced of the truth of the preceding statements. The processes of disposal of food, then, from the commencement to the end are: Prehension, which is the act of conveying the food to the mouth. Next Mastication, the important duty assigned to the teeth, which is unfortunately much neg-