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...processes into five factors, as follows: The substance, the apparatus, the reagent, the nature of the reaction, and finally the nature of the products of reaction. These five factors are likewise present in all digestive processes. The substance is in this case the food-stuffs; the apparatus, the mouth, stomach, intestines, etc.; the reagents, the saliva, gastric and pancreatic juices, and the bile; the nature of the reaction, into what state the food-stuff is converted for assimilation; and finally the nature of this digested food-stuff...
...process of digestion the food-stuffs are acted upon firstly in the mouth, by the saliva, which not only serves as a lubricant but also to change such carbohydrates, as may be present, into dextrine and sugar. The food is next a +++ted upon in the stomach by the gastric juices, which render the proteids present more soluble and converting them finally into peptone...
...connection with this Dr. Pfeiffer spoke of the perplexing question why the gastric juices did not effect the stomach itself while acting upon all other such substances. Passing on the partly digested food leaves the stomach, having an acid reaction and called chyme. As it enters the intestine, this chyme is attacked by the bile, which serves to neutralize the acid reaction, and further to aid in digesting the fats and oils. Then the pancreatic juice renders the mass fit for the blood to assimilate, and finishes the digestion of the fats and oils...
...Pfeiffer then described rather hurriedly the digestive organs, to enable him to speak of the ancient ideas of digestion. Starting with the idea of its being a sort of putrefaction, ideas progressed through various stages until, by ingenious experiments, it was found that the object of the stomach was to dissolve the food. In the next lecture Dr. Pfeiffer proposes to treat of the processes of digestive fermentation...
Fitzugle '91, has been taken ill with a disorder of the stomach and was removed yesterday afternoon to the Massachusetts General Hospital...