The hand-book of household scienceA popular account of heat, light, air, aliment, and cleansing, in their scientific principles and domestic . 882 PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FOOD Fio. ety, will dry it up. The movements of the mouth, as in speaking,reading, or singing, excite its flow, but it is most copiously furnishedat times of eating, by the contact and pressure of food during masti-cation. Hence, the glands on that side of the mouth which is most used in mastication, secrete more thanthe others. The nature of the foodcauses the quantity furnished at mealsto vary exceeding
The hand-book of household scienceA popular account of heat, light, air, aliment, and cleansing, in their scientific principles and domestic . 882 PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FOOD Fio. ety, will dry it up. The movements of the mouth, as in speaking,reading, or singing, excite its flow, but it is most copiously furnishedat times of eating, by the contact and pressure of food during masti-cation. Hence, the glands on that side of the mouth which is most used in mastication, secrete more thanthe others. The nature of the foodcauses the quantity furnished at mealsto vary exceedingly; hard, dry ali-ments provoking a much greater dis-charge than those which are moist^gmsmsgL ^y^mrimm ^°^ ^^^^ ^^ streams out abundantlyX^ mMS3SSt—^Kmlfl^B~a under the stimulation of spices, and continues to flow after the meal isconcluded ; the secretion also goes onduring sleep. 632. Properties.—The saliva is aclear, slightly bluish, glairy juice,readily frothing. It contains lessthan one per cent, of saline matter,and in health is always alkaline. ItSalivary glands; a nnrotid, isubmaxil-contains also an organic principlelarj-, c sublingual. named pti/alin, an albuminous sub- stance wh
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