INTESTINAL CHEMISTRY

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In estimating the importance of salivary digestion in man studies must be made on the human subject. The salivas of the dog and cat have little or no action on starch whereas human saliva is powerfully amylolytic. Salivary digestion in man is influenced by psychic factors and by conditions of mastication and of gastric motility which cannot be exactly simulated in lower animals. Numerous experiments have been carried out on the digestion of starch by human saliva but very few attempts have been made actually to follow the course of this digestion as it occurs in the human stomach. Most of these few experiments have been merely qualitative or otherwise inadequate. The best work appears to be that of Müller,1 who obtained the gastric contents following a test meal by expression and determined the percentage of soluble carbohydrate. The present series of experiments were carried out using the retention stomach

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