On fluid meat : a new preparation of meat, especially adapted to weak stomachs, and for invalids generally, with remarks on food / by Stephen Darby.

  • Darby, Stephen.
Date:
1870
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Credit: On fluid meat : a new preparation of meat, especially adapted to weak stomachs, and for invalids generally, with remarks on food / by Stephen Darby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    healthy states of the stomach and system, the whole of the constituents of animal flesh as combined in nature, are in the stomach brought into a more or less perfect state of solution before they are suited to undergo the second part of the digestive process in the duodenum, and become fitted for being conveyed into and mixing with the circu- lating blood. In a state of perfect health, without any heredi- tary or acquired weakness, with due and wholesome exercise and regimen, including well-regulated appetites, animal food in its natural state is the most nutritious, and best adapted to the main- tenance of health and strength. But in by far the larger majority of mankind, some defect or debility, from within or from without, sooner or later affects the stomach and the digestive process. Indeed, the very common initiatory symptoms of disordered health are those arising from indiges- tion, the stomach being of all the organs that which is brought most directly into contact with the greatest variety of substances, beneficial or hurtful, in every degree. We need not spend a word in describing dyspepsia, or in detailing its multiform symptoms;