The theory and practice of infant feeding, with notes on development . Fig. 4.—Complicated Digestive Tract of Ox or Cow. Stomach seventy per cent. (Chauveau.)(1) Stomach. (2) Intestines. not hold more than one-third to one-half of a meal. Theoutlet to the intestine is large and open, and while the 20 INFANT FEEDING. animal eats a meal the food passes directly into the intes-tine, which at the farther end is enormously developed,forming about sixty per cent of the entire digestive birds of prey are fed flesh, young worm-eatingbirds are supplied with worms, and young seed-eatingbirds
The theory and practice of infant feeding, with notes on development . Fig. 4.—Complicated Digestive Tract of Ox or Cow. Stomach seventy per cent. (Chauveau.)(1) Stomach. (2) Intestines. not hold more than one-third to one-half of a meal. Theoutlet to the intestine is large and open, and while the 20 INFANT FEEDING. animal eats a meal the food passes directly into the intes-tine, which at the farther end is enormously developed,forming about sixty per cent of the entire digestive birds of prey are fed flesh, young worm-eatingbirds are supplied with worms, and young seed-eatingbirds with seeds. Here it is plain that the digestive sys-. -Interior of Oxs or Cows Stomach. (Chauveau.) terns of young birds are very much the same as those ofthe parents. All young animals that are suckled arefurnished milk, which is a fluid, while the parents foodis solid. This seems to be different than in the case ofyoung birds which receive solid food, but in the stomachsof these young animals is found rennet, a substance thatchanges milk into a solid or semi-solid condition. Jun-ket is a familiar example of cows milk turned into a solid. OBJECT AND PROCESSES OF DIGESTION. 21 It has been stated that rennet seems to be a superfluoussubstance in the stomach, seeing that the milk is again
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