An elementary system of physiology : comprising a complete view of the present state of the science ... and analyses of the principal theories and hypotheses / by John Bostock.

  • Bostock, John, 1773-1846.
Date:
[between 1836 and 1844]
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Credit: An elementary system of physiology : comprising a complete view of the present state of the science ... and analyses of the principal theories and hypotheses / by John Bostock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page By different tribes among Mankind 565 Proximate animal principles employed in diet 655 Proximate vegetable principles ; Gluten 556 Farina, Mucilage, Sugar, Oil, 557 Food, nutritious or digestible 558 Animals, carnivorous or herbivorous ; Man, omnivorous 558 Difference in the powers of different Stomachs 559 Liquids; nutritive Fluids ; fermented Liquors, distilled Spirits 560 Condiments ; their supposed use 661 Use of Salt in the Food 562 Medicaments; action upon the Stomach as compared with their elementary constitution 563 Poisons 563 Skct. 3. Changes which the Food undergoes in the process of Digestion 563 Mechanical division; formation of Chyme 564 How produced; by a chemical action 564 Operation of the Gastric Juice ; experiments of Spallanzani 565 Its properties; Front's experiments 567 Produces the coagulation of Albumen ; resists putrefaction 569 General conclusion respecting Chymification 572 Vermicular motion of the Stomach 573 Conversion of Chyme into Chyle 574 Description of Chyle 675 Use of the large Intestines 677 Functions of the Spleen 579 Is the food totally decomposed ? 580 Certain substances enter the vessels unchanged 601 Introduction of Salts and Earths into the system 582 Sect. 4. Theory of Digestion 682 Hypothesis of Concoction ; of Putrefaction 583 Of Trituration; remarks; of Fermentation ,. 584 Of Chemical Solution 685 Of the Vital Principle 586 Of Nervous Action 588 Remarks on the hypotheses of Chemical Solution and of Fermentation.... 589 Considerations in favour of the hypothesis of Fermentation 691 Circumstances to be attended to in future experiments 592 Hunger; Thirst 593 Nausea ; Vomiting 594 CHAPTER XL Of Absorption 597 Introductory Observations 597 Sect. 1. Description of the Absorbent System 698 History of the discovery 698 Description 'of the Lacteals 699 Course of the Lacteals; their properties 600 Discovei-y of the Lymphatics 601 Description of the Lymphatics 602 Thoracic Duct 604 liymphatic Glands 605 Sect. 2. Office of the Absorbent System 607 Remarks upon the extremities of the Absorbents 6O7 Substances absorbed by the Lacteals and Lymphatics 608 Action and use of the Thoracic Duct; of the Glands 608 Do the Veins absorb ? 609 Arguments in favour of Venous Absorption 610 Experiments and opinions of Wm. Hunter and Monro Sec 611 Of Hewson, J. Hunter, Cruikshank, Mascagni, &c 612 General conclusions ; history of opinions 613 Experiments of Magendie 614 Remarks and conclusion 616 Respective functions of the Lacteals and liymphatics 617 Experiments of Tiedemanu and Omelin 617 Hypothesis of Hunter respecting the Lymphatics 618