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Title: A treatise on physiology and hygiene for educational institutions and general readers ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hutchison, Joseph C. (Joseph Chrisman), 1822-1887
Subjects: Physiology
Publisher: New York, Clark & Maynard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ch ? 116, 117 24. What are the first changes of digestion? 117 25. What further can you state in relation to the stomach ? 117 26. Describe the intestines 118 27. Describe the process of intestinal digestion... 118,119 28. What do you understand by absorption ? 119, 120 29. How is the process of absorption effected ? 120 30. What are the lacteals, and of what use are they ? « 121 31. What length of time is required for the digestion of food ? 121, 122 32. What circumstances, of food, affect digestion ? 122 33. What circumstances, of emotion, affect digestion ? 123 34. What suggestions and directions are given upon the subject of eating and drinking?. 123 35. Describe the kidneys and their office 124, 125 36. What happens when their action ceases ? 125 37. Give the location of the spleen. Has it a duct? 125 38. How does alcohol affect digestion ? 125 39. Give the experiment on St. Martin 126 40. State the effects of alcohol upon the liver 126 41. State the effects upon the kidneys 127
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CHAPTER VII. The Circulation. The Blood—Its Plasma and Corpuscles—Coagulation of the Blood—The Uses ofthe Blood—Transfusion—Change of Color—The Organs of the Circulation-The Heart, Arteries, and Veins—The Cavities and Valves of the Heart—Its Vital Energy—Passage of the Blood through the Heart—The fre-queroey and Activity of its Movements—The Pulse—The Spygmograph—•The Capillary Blood-vessels—The Rate of the Circulation—Assimilation—Injuries to the Blood-vessels—Effects of Alcohol on Heart. 1. The Blood.—Every living organism of the higher sort,whether animal or vegetable, requires for the maintenance of lifeand activity, a circulatory fluid, by which nutriment is distributedto all its parts. In plants, this fluid is the sap; in insects, it is awatery and colorless blood; in reptiles and fishes, xc is red but coldblood; while in the nobler animals and man, it is red and warmblood. 2. The blood is the most important, as it is the most abundant,fluid

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