. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., ,whether the feces areasecretion from the blood, orthe indigestible portions ofthe food taken into the stom-ach. In my opinion they areboth ; the proportions of eachvarying as the food i
. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., ,whether the feces areasecretion from the blood, orthe indigestible portions ofthe food taken into the stom-ach. In my opinion they areboth ; the proportions of eachvarying as the food is more or less nutritive or accumulations in the large bowels, particularly inthe cells of the colon, inducing ulcerations, abscesses, piles, fis-tulas, concretions, worms, cholera, bilious cholie, dysentery, etc.,are very common with those who use constipating food, ofwhich superfine flour is the chief article. I have never knownany of these complaints, worth mentioning, in persons whosediet has uniformly been unbolted farinaceous preparations,with the free use of fruits and vegetables. The large intestines are much shorter than the small, thecaecum being only from two. to six, the colon about five, and therectum about eight inches in length; and their mucous mem-brane is disposed into apartments or cells, by which the descentof the exciementittous matter is moderated and DIGESTIVB AITARATUS. Theoky of Nutrition. 145 Advice to Mothers—Errors of Medical Teachers—Strange Food. The final dejection of the non-nutrient ingesta and feculentsecretions is, like the prehension, mastication, and deglutitionof food, attended with consciousness, and placed under controlof the will; an arrangement indispensable to our comfort andconvenience, as well as well-being. Practical Reflections.—The intelligent mother who hasmade herself acquainted with the wonderful utructurcs andelaborate functions by which alimentary matter is convertedinto the substance of o
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