A treatise on dyspepia; or, indigistion / [James Woodforde].

  • Woodforde, James.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A treatise on dyspepia; or, indigistion / [James Woodforde]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and is called the succus gastricus. In this ca¬ vity the aliments are subjected to a heat of 98 degrees, are detained for some time, are agitated, and intimately united by strong muscular con¬ tractions, and are brought to a finer substance called chyme: at length, by a relaxation of the pylorus, this is transmitted to the duodenum. The stimulus of the food excites the stomach to contraction and to an increased secretion of the succus gastricus, whereby a more perfect admixture takes place, and the heat must faci¬ litate the solution. When the aliments, by the united powers of heat, agitation, admixture with * i X \ saliva, succus gastricus, and probably some de¬ gree of fermentation, has been converted into chyme, and delivered to the duodenum, the stomach, relieved from the weight and stimulus of its contents, becomes quiescent, and in a great measure ceases to secrete its peculiar fluid. On the arrival of the chyme at the duodenum, » » \ it receives the intestinal lymph, the bile, and the pancrectic juice, with each of which it is incorporated in its progress through the jeju¬ num and ileum, undergoing at the same time * further chemical changes, so as to form chyle.