The Physiology of Digestion: Considered with Relation to the Principles of Dietetics

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Howe & Bates, 1836 - 310 páginas

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Página 267 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Página 268 - He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Página 267 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Página iii - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Página 285 - Martin complained of no symptoms indicating any general derangement of the system, except an uneasy sensation and a tenderness at the pit of the stomach, and some vertigo, with dimness and yellowness of vision, on stooping down and rising again; had a thin yellowish-brown coat on his tongue, and his countenance was rather sallow ; pulse uniform and regular, appetite good; rests quietly, and sleeps as usual...
Página 121 - is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted ; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was founded on true medical principles. In a word, endeavour to have cheerful and merry companions at your meals : what nourishment one receives amidst mirth and jollity will certainly produce good and light blood.
Página 239 - ... of the system. The method of grating and pounding meat as a substitute for chewing, may be well suited to the toothless octogenarian whose stomach is capable of digesting it ; but the stomach of the young child is not adapted to the digestion of such food, and will be disordered by it.
Página 92 - The perforation through the walls of the stomach is about three inches to the left of the cardia, near the left superior termination of the great curvature. When entirely empty, the stomach contracts upon itself, and sometimes forces the valve through the orifice, together with an additional portion of the mucous membrane, which becomes completely inverted, and forms a tumour as large as a hen's egg.
Página 201 - Nothing which this world affords could induce me to feed in this gross manner. The pig who lives in his sty would have some excuse ; but it is really quite shocking to see any other animal overpowering himself at mid-day with such a mixture and superabundance of food.
Página 89 - The contents entered posteriorly, and in an oblique direction, forward and inward, literally blowing off integuments and muscles of the size of a man's hand, fracturing and carrying away the anterior half of the sixth rib, fracturing the fifth, lacerating the lower portion of the left lobe of the lungs. the diaphragm, and perforating the stomach.

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