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DIGESTION. 



many articles which apparently give no trouble in digestion 

 is by no means rapid : 



Table showing the Digestibility of various Alimentary Substances in the 



Stomach. 1 



Most of the facts recorded in the above table are in ac- 

 cordance with the popular ideas regarding the digestibility 

 of various articles, based on general experience. With these 



1 In the original table given by Beaumont (op. cit., p. 269 et seq.\ there is 

 also given the mean time of digestion artificially, in vials, on a bath. This has 

 been omitted, as it often bears little relation to the time occupied in the diges- 

 tion of the same principles in the stomach, and the results are of necessity quite 

 inaccurate. 



