An elementary physiology and hygiene for use in upper grammar grades . f the saliva uponstarch. The starch, then, is not digested in thestomach, but it will be taken care of farther on. Action on Meats. — A portion of the work of the gas-tric juice is to break the food into small parts. Meatis made up of a great number of tiny threads, calledmuscle fibers, which are glued together by a materialthat holds them in little bundles. The gastric juicedissolves this gluey material, and the fibers fall as soon as the juice gets them separated it pro-ceeds to act upon each one separately, ch
An elementary physiology and hygiene for use in upper grammar grades . f the saliva uponstarch. The starch, then, is not digested in thestomach, but it will be taken care of farther on. Action on Meats. — A portion of the work of the gas-tric juice is to break the food into small parts. Meatis made up of a great number of tiny threads, calledmuscle fibers, which are glued together by a materialthat holds them in little bundles. The gastric juicedissolves this gluey material, and the fibers fall as soon as the juice gets them separated it pro-ceeds to act upon each one separately, changing itto a liquid form ready for the blood to take up, or,as we say, digesting it. We have noticed (see Fig. 2) 50 PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE that the fat is in little sacs held together by a connect-ing mass of threads. Both the sacs and the threadsare dissolved by the gastric juice, so that the fat floatsabout freely in the stomach. Action on Proteids. —It is also a portion of the work of the gastric juice to Oesophagus Stomach ^htdrgeMestine 4\-£millJntestLne.
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