This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...eats the food which is given to him, he becomes much emaciated, yet gradually recovers, as the divided nerve re-unites and resumes its functions. In like manner, Mr. Brodie having observed, that the administration of arsenic was uniformly followed by profuse secretion of mucus and watery liquors into the stomach, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...eats the food which is given to him, he becomes much emaciated, yet gradually recovers, as the divided nerve re-unites and resumes its functions. In like manner, Mr. Brodie having observed, that the administration of arsenic was uniformly followed by profuse secretion of mucus and watery liquors into the stomach, divides the nerves of the eighth pair in dogs, and then administers the poison, but no secretions are afterwards effused into the stomach. Professor Harwood of Cambridge gives to two dogs, equal in age, health, and appetite, equal quantities of flesh meat. They were pointers, and he suffers one of the dogs to do what nature indicated to be favourable to digestion, to lie down by the fire and go to sleep; but he entices the other into the fields, and causes him to hunt about for game. After some hours he kills both dogs, and finds the food in the stomach of the dog which had been kept in constant exercise, undigested and but little changed; whilst in the other it had, in the same time, not only been digested by the stomach, but converted into chyle by the intestines, and was rapidly passing through their absorbent vessels Philos. Trans. 1814. N in the high road to the sanguiferous system. No one is disposed to doubt the results of these experiments, for every one is more or less convinced, by his own feelings, that affections of the mind, and bodily exertion, will, by disturbing or otherwise occupying the nervous energies, diminish or prevent appetite and digestion. The pylorus, or opening by which the stomach communicates with the intestinal tube, is variously formed in different animals, allowing or preventing, in various degrees, the transit of alimentary matter. In the human stomach it is a small circular and muscular aperture, admitting of occa...
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