The physiology of digestion considered with relation to the principles of dietetics - Andrew Combe

Farinaceous food, [118], [138], [284].
Fat and oily food, [281], [285].
Fermentation and digestion different processes, [110].
Fermented liquors, [314].
Fever, loss of appetite during it a wise arrangement, [31], [107].
Fish, [286].
Fluids. See [Drink]. [Liquid.] [Thirst.]
Follicles of the stomach, [77].
Food necessary to supply waste of the substance of living beings, [5].
Requisite quantity varies according to circumstances, [6], et seq.
Warning given by hunger when food is required, [10], [11], [19], [218].
Most necessary during growth, [22], [315];
and when the life is active, [23], et seq.
Error of eating too much, [24], et seq., [219].
Thirst varies in intensity according to the kind of food, [37].
Mastication, [40],
insalivation, [49],
and deglutition of food, [55].
Its quality modifies the amount of saliva secreted, [53].
The most opposite kinds of food reduced by digestion to the same substance, [58].
Different stages through which food passes between its reception into the stomach and its assimilation, [61].
Size of the stomach varies according to its quality, [67].
Advantages of our want of consciousness of its presence in the stomach, [85].
Sudden and extreme changes of diet injurious; and why, [103].
Ought not to be rapidly swallowed, [51], [122].
Thoroughly mixed with the gastric juice in the stomach, [124].
Concentrated food, why digested with difficulty, [125], [142], [326].
Ought not to be taken till previous meal is digested, [129].
Comparative digestibility of different kinds of, [133].
Animal food more digestible and nutritious than vegetable, [118], [138], [281], [283];
and why, [141].
Farinaceous food, [118], [138], [284].
Soup, [117], [125], [139], [281], [312].
Changes of food in the bowels, [152].
Injection of food into the bowels, [164].
Times of eating, [188].
Quantity to be eaten, [218].
Bad effects of eating too much, [222].
Are mixtures of food hurtful?, [226].
Food of children, [204], [232].
Food of the poor too scanty, [247].
Errors of over-feeding and underfeeding children, [234], [249], [259], [273].
Proper food of man, [251].
Different kinds of food suitable in different climates, [143];
for different constitutions, [252];
and at different ages, [255].
Sensations after eating furnish a valuable guide, [280].
Food of invalids, [286].
French meals, [210].
See [Meals]. [Eating.]

Gall-bladder, [174].
Gall-stones, [175].
Game, [286].
Gastric juice, [61], [87].
Secreted only when there is food in the stomach, [93].
Its chemical composition, [96].
Acts only upon dead inorganic substances, [97].
Its power of coagulating milk and albumen, [100], [116].
Its antiseptic quality, [100], [117].
Adapted in different animals to the nature of the food, [101].
Modified in the same individual according to the wants of the system, [104].
On which of its elements does its solvent power depend?, [112].
The amount secreted always in proportion to the quantity of aliment required by the body, [105], [220].
Its secretion retarded by disagreeable mental emotions and feverishness, [106], [322].
Indispensable to digestion, [112].
Thoroughly mixed with the food in the stomach, [124].
Adaptation of food to its qualities in different individuals, [141].
Quantity secreted at each meal, [289].
Time occupied by its secretion, [295].
Gizzard of granivorous birds, [50], [71].
Grief enfeebles digestion, [126], [297].
Growth, periods of, require an increased supply of food in vegetables, [8];
and animals, [9], [22], [221].
Diet during, [315].
Gullet, [55].

Head, Sir Francis, quoted on the quantities of cold water drunk at the brunnens of Nassau, [196];
and on the prejudicial effects of intemperate eating, [222].
Heidler, case quoted from, [229].
Herbivorous animals have large organs of digestion, [68], [140], [145].
Their gastric juice, [102].
The digestion of their food partly effected in the intestines, [180].
Hippocrates, his theory of digestion, [109].
Horse, should not have diet suddenly changed, [103].
Digestion of the, [181].
Is not fed immediately before or after a journey, [293].
May sometimes drink a little though perspiring, [313].
Hufeland quoted on the beneficial influence of laughter in aiding digestion, [127].
Hunger, necessity of the sense of, as a warning that food is required, [10], [218].
An affection of the brain, [12].
Allayed by narcotics, [14], [15].
Influenced by mental emotions, [16].
By what condition of the stomach is it excited?, [17].
Felt keenly when the body is in need of repair, [19], et seq.
Sharpened by muscular exercise, [19], [21].
Its absence during fever a wise arrangement, [31].
Susceptible of being trained, [32].
Error of confounding it with taste, [33].
Morbid cravings of hunger when food is not required, [34].
Instances of extraordinary voracity, [35].
Periodicity of, [189].
Does not return till stomach has been for some time empty, [190].
Hydra, stomach of the, [63].

Ices and ice-creams hurtful after a meal, [309].
Ice useful in warm weather when used with caution, [311].
Examples in Italy and Virginia, [311].
Ileum, [177].
Indigestion, why prevalent among sedentary persons, [29], [301].
Injures the teeth, [47].
Often beneficial in warding off more serious diseases, [245].
Caused by grief, anxiety, and over-study, [126], [297].
Infants, food proper for, as indicated by the state of their teeth, [45].
Diet of, [232], [256].
Prevalent errors in the treatment of, [233].
Proper time for weaning them, [263].
See [Children].
Infection, why most easily caught before breakfast, [194].
Injection of food into the bowels, [164].
Insalivation of food, [49].
Intemperate eating a prevalent cause of disease, [222].
Drinking, [319].
Intestines described, [154].
See [Bowels].

Jejunum, [177].
Jelly, [125].

Kitchiner, Dr, quoted on digestion, [120], [190].

Lacteals, [62], [163].
La Trappe, diet of the monks of, [191].
Laughter aids digestion, [127], [297].
Laxatives, [158], [238], [326].
Lent, rapid recovery of the sick in Catholic countries during it, [222].
Liquid food, [79], [117], [139], [281], [304].
Too cold or hot injurious, [308], [312].
Different kinds in use, [314].
Literary men, indigestion of, [209], [297].
Liver, its function, [173].
Londe, Dr, quoted on the digestion of vegetables, [182].
On the diet of infants, [235].
Luncheon, [203].
Lungs, how wasting of the body is produced by their disease, [167].
See [Consumption].
Lymphatics, [164].

Mastication, process of, described, [40].
Its apparatus various in different animals according to the nature of their food, [50].
Bad effects when mastication is incomplete, [51].
Purpose of, [53].
Meals, at what times and after what intervals they ought to be taken, [187], et seq.
Relaxation necessary after them, [208].
Principles on which their times and number ought to be fixed, [213].
Conduct proper before and after meals, [288].
Inaptitude for bodily and mental exertion after them, [290].
Rest and tranquillity then necessary, [291].
Whether drink is proper during meals, [306].
French Meals, [210].
See [Food]. [Eating.]
Meconium, [238].
Menstruation ceases during pregnancy and suckling, [262].
Mesenteric glands, [166].
Mesentery, [157].
Mesocolon, [158].
Milk, coagulated in the stomach by the gastric juice, [100], [116].
Digested with ease, [139].
The natural food of infants, [237], [256].
Causes of its vitiation in mothers, [259].
Milliners, an improvement in the management of their establishments suggested, [230].
Mind, its influence on appetite for food, [16].
Deteriorated by defective nutrition, [249].
Its efficiency depends on the health of the body, [106], [126].
Ought to rest during digestion, [291].
Its influence on digestion, [296], et seq.
Mirth promotes digestion, [126], [297].
Mixtures of food, whether prejudicial, [226].
Montègre’s opinion of the use of the saliva, [54], [99].
Morning, exposure before breakfast often dangerous, [194].
Vigour of the system then least, [198].
Mortality of children, [233].
Mortality greatest among the poor, [248].
Mothers generally ignorant of the rational mode of treating children, [232].
Their duties in relation to suckling, [258].
Mucous or villous coat of the stomach, [74];
and intestines, [160], [172].
Muscular coat of the stomach, [72];
and intestines, [158].
Muscular exercise. See [Exercise].
Mutilation of animals, unsatisfactory nature of experiments so made, [82].

Napoleon not a bright schoolboy, [270].
Narcotics allay hunger, [14], [15].
Nerves of the stomach, [21], [79].
Of the bowels, [169].
Nervous energy essential to digestion, [83], [296].
Newton, Sir Isaac, a dull schoolboy, [270].
Nursing of children, [233], et seq. [256].
Nurses ought not to be overfed, [260].
Nutrition required to repair waste of substance in living beings, [5].
See [Food].

Œsophagus, [55].
Operatives ought not to resume work immediately after meals, [298].
Opium allays hunger, [15].