Hygiene for young people . s place partly in the mouth,partly in the stomach, and partly in the may, therefore, speak of mouth digestion,stomach digestion, and intestinal digestion. It would be an easy matter to tell you aboutsome of the changes which food undergoes inthe stomach and in the intestine ; but it wouldnot be profitable to do so at this time. Even if DIGESTION. 125 you knew something about these changes and had a severe attack of indigestion, you could do nothing for yourself. You would have to go to a good doctor for treatment and trust to him to cure you. But you ca
Hygiene for young people . s place partly in the mouth,partly in the stomach, and partly in the may, therefore, speak of mouth digestion,stomach digestion, and intestinal digestion. It would be an easy matter to tell you aboutsome of the changes which food undergoes inthe stomach and in the intestine ; but it wouldnot be profitable to do so at this time. Even if DIGESTION. 125 you knew something about these changes and had a severe attack of indigestion, you could do nothing for yourself. You would have to go to a good doctor for treatment and trust to him to cure you. But you can do agreat deal to avoidstomach and intes-tinal indigestion, ifyou avoid the useof alcohol and to-1 >acco, chew everybite of food twentyor thirty times be-fore swallowing it,and avoid overstrainand worry. Thesethings, at least, are within your control. Some of you are no doubt savins to your-selves, What you tell us may be all xnytrue; but we have often to hurry at breakfastto get to school in time, and our fathers and. FieoRB. 48.—Diagram of the food tulie, or in-testine. 1 and 2, salivary glands ; 3, gullet;4, stomach; 6, 5, liver; 6, 6, the small intes-tine; 7, 7, 7, large intestine, or lower bowel. 126 HYGIENE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. brothers have to hurry to reach their workon time. How, then, can we eat breakfastslowly ? Then, too, at noon, you tell me, there isthe same hurry—hurry home, for the walk islong, and hurry back to work, for the noonrecess is short. Our fathers, brothers andsisters, too, who are in shops or factoriesor in the harvest field, must hurry at noonboth coming and going. All of this, I have no doubt, is very true;but all very wrong. As I have already pointedout to you in other matters, you may commitwrongs against your stomach for months;sometimes, if you are very strong, for years;but sooner or later you will suffer for it. Thehurried meal and the hurried walk to workare the sure forerunners of the pain, discomfort,and weakness which you will suffe
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