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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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CH, AND BOWELS. 369 coalesce under the lawsof chemical or electricalattraction Fig. 92 willassist in giving a properunderstanding of this ex-planation. Thus we seehow the nutritious mat-ter is separated from theinnutritious or useless.Under the laws of electro-chemical attraction, mar-riages take place betweeninanimate as well as be-tween animate bodies.The pancreatic fluids mar-ry the nutritious, and thebile marries the innutri-tious. The former com-bination is sucked up bythe absorbents to nourishthe system, while the lat-ter passes along down intothe colon, where there isa sort of rendezvous forfecal matter. How welladapted the bile is to actas a consort must be seenwhen it is rememberedthat it is a soapy kind offluid, well calculated to lubricate the fasces and makethem pass easily throughthe intestines. The bile,too, gives the yellowr colorto the fecal discharges. I have never seen in any medical work, nor have I ever heard, a philosophical description of the process 16* Fig. 92.
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DIGESTIVE MACHINERY. This figure gives in a diagramatic way a goodidea of the digestive organs, a, mouth: b,tongue; h, oesophagus; i, stomach; o, gall-bladder; m, duodenum; n, bile-duct orifice;q, small intestines; p, pancreas; s, ileo-ccecalvalve where small intestine joins large; u,ascending colon; v, transverse colon; x, de-scending colon; y, flexure of colon; z, rectum. 370 DISEASES OF LIVER, STOMACH, AND BOWELS. of digestion, and the separation of nutritious from innutritiousmatter. I presume the theory I have given will be new to all myreaders, professional as well as non-professional; but when thechemical constituents of the bile and the pancreatic fluids are takeninto consideration, together with those of the saliva and gastricjuices, does it not perfectly accord with common sense? If *o. andI think it does, it is eminently proper that the pages of this bookshould give birth to it, for the author of Medical Common Sensedesires to make them the disseminators of original views,

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