1. MASTICATION I PROPOSE in this and the following papers to give an account of the physiology of digestion, or, in other words, to describe the operations to which food is submitted, and the ...

In 1894, Ivan Pavlov summarized the physiological state of knowledge about digestion in this way: The digestive canal is in its task a complex chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long ...

The major focus of the book is on studies using the short circuit current (SCC) technique. The technique was developed in the 1940's, and it remains the method of choice for whole tissue studies, as ...

Credit: The physiology of digestion, considered with relation to the principles of dietetics / by Andrew Combe. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal ...

Concerns the case of Alexis St. Martin, whose relations with Beaumont are summarized in the introduction. This edition was reissued in Boston in 1834. The second American edition was published in 1847 ...

1. Nutrition is a potent mediator of developmental plasticity. If food is scarce, developing organisms may invest into growth to outgrow size-dependent mortality (short-term benefit) and/or into an ...

Based on: Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. By William Beaumont, M.D., facsimile of the original edition of 1833, together with a biographical essay, A ...