The Medical And Surgical Monthly

Author : Alfred Kimball Hills
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334965340
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Medical Times, Vol. 37 written by Alfred Kimball Hills and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Medical Times, Vol. 37: A Monthly Journal of Medicine, Surgery and the Collateral Sciences; January-December, 1909 A diet overrich in fat, may also cause trouble by interfering with digestion in this way: The ordi nary fats, such as butter, melt freely at the temper ature of the body. As they melt they cause a coat ing about the other portions of the meal and prevent a proper attack by the gastric juice. This delays digestion and by keeping the food overlong in the stomach promotes fermentation. This in turn liber ates butyric acid, the substance that is present in rancid butter, which is an active irritant to the mu cous membrane of the stomach. Temperature and surroundings modify our power of utilizing fat, a matter of everyday observation, for we instinctively eat less greasy food in summer, while in cold weather pastry and such fat containing foods are more read ily tolerated. Indeed, if we turn to the dwellers in arctic climates, we find that fat is the staple of food. A box of tallow candles finds its way to the heart (and incidentally to the stomach) of the Esquimaux maiden much more readily than any other love token, and a cake of soap is rapturously received, though she never washes. It is significant that the milk of arctic animals is peculiarly rich in fat, that of the whale and' walrus. For instance, containing about 40 per cent., an evident provision for the protection or the young of these creatures against the extreme cold of their environment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.