- Pancreas, and pancreatic juice, [62], [176].
- Paris, Dr, an opinion of his controverted, [137].
- Pastry not easily digestible, [285].
- Periodicity of appetite, [189].
- Peristaltic motion of the bowels, [158], [179], [330].
- Peritoneum, [72], [156].
- Perspiration affects the other secretions, [325].
- Philip, Dr Wilson, an opinion of his controverted, [128].
- Pneumogastric nerve, [80].
- Poor have larger stomachs than the rich, [67].
- Their food too scanty and innutritious, [247].
- Their minds thereby deteriorated, [249].
- Precocity of talent little to be desired, [270].
- Purgatives, their mode of action, [158], [162].
- Not required by nature, [238].
- When improper, [329].
- Putrefaction, digestion different from, [110].
- Pylorus, [67].
- Allows only digested food to issue from the stomach, [132].
- Quantity of food proper to be eaten, [218].
- Rapid eating improper, [51], [122].
- Reading during meals improper, [52].
- Rectum, [179].
- Respiration, use of, [63].
- Digestion aided by, [126], [180].
- Necessary for the conversion of chyle into blood, [168].
- Aids the action of the bowels, [332].
- Rice, [118], [138], [284].
- Roget, Dr, quoted on nutrition, [26];
- on varieties of food, [59].
- Rumination of animals, [42], [50].
- Stomach of ruminants described, [69].
- Sago, [138], [284].
- Saliva, secretion and purpose of, [49].
- Its amount greatest when food spicy, [53].
- Different in quality from gastric juice, [99].
- Salt meat, how productive of thirst, [37].
- Sanguification, [63], [167].
- Satiety, [220].
- Schools, children too much confined and tasked in, [269].
- See [Boarding Schools].
- Scrofula frequently the result of a penurious diet, [250], [278];
- also of too exciting food, [276].
- Sedentary habits, how productive of indigestion, [24], [301];
- and costiveness, [159], [180], [332].
- Less food required by sedentary than by active persons, [228], [299].
- Sheridan a dunce at school, [270].
- Siesta, [295].
- Skin, its sympathy with the bowels, [161], [325].
- Smith, Dr Southwood, quoted, [185], [248].
- Soldiers, private, why inferior in strength and health to officers, [248].
- Ought not to eat immediately after a march, [293].
- Soup, digestion of, [117], [125], [139], [281], [312].
- Spirits, their indiscriminate use hurtful, [316].
- Spittle, [49].
- See [Saliva].
- Spleen, [170].
- St Martin, Alexis, remarkable case of, [88].
- Suggestion as to farther observations on, [92], note.
- See [Beaumont].
- Stays injure the action of the bowels, [159], [180], [333].
- Stomach, peculiar to animals, [6].
- By what state of it is hunger excited?, [17].
- Its sympathy with the rest of the body, [18], et seq.
- Described, [63], et seq.
- Stomach in the lowest class of animals, [63].
- In man, [65].
- Various in size, according to quantity and quality of food, [67].
- Stomach of ruminating animals described, [68].
- Coats of the stomach—external, [72];
- muscular, [72];
- and mucous or villous, [74].
- Its muscular action, [73].
- Its bloodvessels and follicles, [76].
- Its sanguineous circulation increased during digestion, [78].
- Its power of absorbing fluids, [38], [79], [117], [140], [195].
- Its nerves, [21], [79].
- Contracts when each morsel is introduced, [122].
- Its motion during digestion, [124].
- Is its temperature then increased?, [146].
- Contains no bile in the healthy state, [175].
- Sensibility of the, a sign of disease, [85].
- Numerous diseases unjustly laid to its charge, [241].
- Study before breakfast, [193], [196].
- After meals, [297].
- See [Literary Men].
- Suckling of infants, [233], [256].
- Supper, in what cases proper, [211].
- Swallowing, process of, [55].
- Sympathetic nerve, [84].
- Tartar on the teeth, [46].
- Tasso, his genius precocious, [270].
- Taste, error of confounding it with appetite, [33].
- Its gratification proper, [51].
- Tea, [209], [307], [312].
- Teeth described, [43].
- Modified in different animals to suit their habits of life, [42].
- Milk-teeth, [44].
- Changes of the condition of the teeth indicate the propriety of certain kinds of diet, [45], [256].
- Necessity of keeping them clean, [46].
- Impaired by indigestion, [47].
- Sudden changes of temperature hurtful to them, [48].
- Temperaments, different, require different kinds and quantities of food, [252].
- May be greatly modified by regimen, [279].
- Temperance in eating may be carried too far, [250].
- Temperance Societies, [319].
- Temperature necessary for digestion, [119].
- Whether that of the stomach is thereby increased, [146].
- That of drinks considered, [308].
- Thinking, intense, impedes digestion, [296].
- Thirst necessary as a warning when drink is required by the system, [10], [36], [304].
- Nature of, [12], [36].
- Greatest when body in need of liquid nourishment, [36].
- Varies in intensity according to nature of the food, [37].
- Consequences of its craving not being gratified, [37].
- See [Drink].
- Thoracic duct, [62], [166].
- Time in which the digestion of an article is effected varies with circumstances, [136].
- Times of eating, [188].
- Tobacco allays hunger, [15].
- Tooth-powders, [46].
- Travelling before breakfast frequently improper, [106].
- Diet in travelling, [216].
- Trituration, digestion not effected by, [110].
- Vegetables, continual waste of their substance, [3].
- How repaired, [5].
- Quantity of nourishment requisite for them varies with circumstances, [7].
- Principle of forcing their growth, [8].
- Vegetable food less digestible than animal, [118], [138], [281], [283];
- and why, [140].
- Also less nutritious, [139].
- Its digestion effected to some extent in the intestines, [181].
- Why more laxative than animal food, [183], [326].
- Venison, [286].
- Vermicular motion of the bowels, [158], [179], [330].
- Villous or mucous coat of the stomach, [75];
- and bowels, [160].
- Vomiting, inverted action of the gullet and bowels in, [57], [158].
- Vomiting of bile, [175].
- Voracity, remarkable instances of, [35].
- Waste universally the attendant of action, [1].
- Food the means of repairing it in living beings, [5].
- See [Food].
- Waste matter excreted into the bowels, [161], [325].
- Water safe as a drink, [314].
- Cold spring-water dangerous when person overheated, [308].
- Water-brash, [77].
- Weaning of infants, proper time for, [263].
- Wine, how productive of thirst, [37].
- Circumstances in which its use is proper and improper, [314].
- Preferable to spirits, [318].
- Worms in the bowels, [163].
- Youth, appetite keen and digestion vigorous in, [22].
- Importance of properly regulating the times of eating in youth, [204].
- Supper frequently necessary, [212].
- Importance of attending to the development of the body in youth, [271].
- Period of transition from youth to manhood a critical season, [231].
- Diseases of the stomach and bowels why then common, [335].
- See [Children]. [Infancy.] [Mothers.]
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