The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . , with its power of changing starch into sugar. The milkhaving been sucked into the mouth, it is swallowed at once. Owing to thesmall amount of saliva, and consequently of ptyalin, and also of the deficiencyof the pancreatic secretion, provision for the digestion of starches is lackingin young children. The practical application of this fact will be noted in con-nection with infant feeding. With the above exception infantile digestion isaccomplished in the usual way. It is aided, however, by the presen
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . , with its power of changing starch into sugar. The milkhaving been sucked into the mouth, it is swallowed at once. Owing to thesmall amount of saliva, and consequently of ptyalin, and also of the deficiencyof the pancreatic secretion, provision for the digestion of starches is lackingin young children. The practical application of this fact will be noted in con-nection with infant feeding. With the above exception infantile digestion isaccomplished in the usual way. It is aided, however, by the presence of bac-teria in the alimentary canal. As soon as milk enters the stomach the rennetferment causes a soft flocculent curd to be formed. This is the chief part ofgastric digestion in the infant, as the pepsin and hydrochloric acid begin todigest this curd only when it is passed on into the intestine. It will be remem-bered in this connection that in the newly bom the stomach serves more thepart of a reservoir than of a digestive organ. The proteids have been partially u ;o pq > H O 2. — X X ^ — r a is ::j fe 1^ « ^oc o b;C7. i: ,-> fe
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