350 DETAILED SYNTHESIS. 



1060. SOME METHODS OF COOKING hasten and others 

 delay or altogether prevent digestion. Frying meats is 

 not as wholesome a mode of cooking as broiling. (See 

 Dr. Beaumont's Table.) 



1061. FOOD NOT PROPERLY MASTICATED cannot be 

 readily digested, because it is not sufficiently comminuted 

 nor mixed with sufficient gastric juice. 



1062. IF FOOD IS EATEN WHEN NOT REQUIRED, it 



does not remain harmless in the stomach until required, 

 but begins to ferment and provoke disorder. Food 

 should not be eaten in advance of appetite. 



1063. IF MORE FOOD IS EATEN THAN IS REQUIRED, it 



retards the digestion of that which is needed. Food 

 should not be eaten beyond the point of satisfying the 

 appetite. When all parts say enough, and there is a 

 complete tranquillity of the body produced, eating should 

 be stayed. 



1064. Many times THE HEALTH OF THE GASTRIC 

 GLANDS is such that but a small portion of food can be 

 digested, or, perhaps, none at all, when it is really need- 

 ed by the body. Appetite will not at such times usual- 

 ly exist ; if it does it must not be gratified, since rest is 

 essential to allow the gastric glands to recover their 

 healthy condition. To force digestion is only to make a 

 bad matter worse. 



1065. Remark. When digestion cannot take place the body must 

 be so adjusted, as far as possible, as not to require the results of diges- 

 tion ; viz., it must rest and be kept warm. 



1066. IF THE BLOOD is BAD, good gastric juice 

 cannot of course be formed ; hence it is important to 

 digestion that the respiratory organs should be movea- 

 ble and well supplied with pure air. Tight dressing 

 and bad ventilation are always productive of deranged 

 digestion. 



1060. What said of ? 1061. What said of-? 1062. What ? 1063. What - ? 

 1064. What said of ? 106& What if digestion is impossible? 1066. What if ? 



