Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . ysema fre-quently disappears as the impaired heart sends less blood to thelungs, thus reestablishing harmonious relations between thetwo organs. A similar readjustment in the functional relationsof allied organs is often found in the activities of the stomachand intestines. The loss of teeth necessitating a change indiet, and change in the functional activity of the digestive organs,possibly, too, a change in the taste for certain kinds of food,ca
Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . ysema fre-quently disappears as the impaired heart sends less blood to thelungs, thus reestablishing harmonious relations between thetwo organs. A similar readjustment in the functional relationsof allied organs is often found in the activities of the stomachand intestines. The loss of teeth necessitating a change indiet, and change in the functional activity of the digestive organs,possibly, too, a change in the taste for certain kinds of food,cause a change in the nutrition of the aged individual. Insipidarticles of food become distasteful. Such substances are usuallyalkaline in reaction and are indigestible in the stomach owingto the subacidity of the gastric juice. There is generally a dis-like for fat and at the same time the secretion of bile isdiminished. Underdone meat, a frequent source of constipa-tion, is rejected partly on account of the inability to chewit and partly on account of distaste. Acids and sharp, spicedcondiments are relished, and these aid digestion and are of. The skull of a woman eighty-three years old, to show the changes in the mandibleand maxilla. (From Moriis Human Anatomy.) ANATOMICAL CHANGES IN OLD AGE 21 service in the senile constipation. On account of diminishedappetite there are longer intervals between meals, and this pre-vents overloading the stomach and the addition of food toundigested food already in the stomach. At this time the agedindividual demands food in the form of mush or liquid, andsofter stools are produced, lessening the danger of fecal im-paction and favoring more rapid elimination. I should ascribe the relief frequently obtained in the post-climacteric period from the trouble of senile constipation of theearlier period to this change in diet and digestion and not to thecathartics that may have been given for years before. Thesenile climacteric may last a few months
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