XVlll CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE LARGE INTESTINE AND THE PROCESSES WHICH HAVE THEIR 

 SEAT IN IT. THE F^CES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. THE IN- 

 TESTINAL GASES. INTESTINAL CONCRETIONS. 



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SECT. 1. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE ARRANGEMENT AND STRUCTURE OF 



THE LARGE INTESTINE 448 



SECT. 2. THE CHARACTERS OF THE INTESTINAL CONTENTS AS THEY PASS FROM 



THE ILEUM INTO THE LARGE INTESTINE 449 



SECT. 3. THE FINAL DIGESTIVE PROCESSES IN THE LARGE INTESTINE. ITS 



POWERS OF ABSORPTION 451 



SECT. 4. THE MICRO-ORGANISMS OF THE COLON AND THEIR PRODUCTS. THE 



CONVERSION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE COLON INTO F^CES . . 453 



SECT. 5. THE F^CES IN HEALTH 456 



The Meconium 461 



SECT. 6. THE F^CES IN DISEASE 462 



SECT. 7. THE GASES OF THE LARGE INTESTINE 466 



SECT. 8. INTESTINAL CONCRETIONS 467 



CHAPTER XIII. 



CONCERNING THE MODIFICATIONS OBSERVED IN THE CHEMICAL 

 PROCESSES OF .DIGESTION IN SOME DIVISIONS OF THE ANIMAL 

 KINGDOM. 



SECT. 1. INTRA-CELLULAR DIGESTION IN THE LOWER INVERTEBHATA . . . 468 



SECT. 2. THE FUNCTION OF THE SO-CALLED ' LIVER ' OF MOLLUSCA . . . 472 



SECT. 3. SOME PECULIARITIES or THE DIGESTIVE PROCESS IN FISHES . . . 473 



SECT. 4. SOME PECULIARITIES OF THE DIGESTION OF BIRDS .... 473 



SECT. 5. DIGESTION IN THE HERBIVORA 475 



APPENDIX. 



I. 



Neumeister's Views concerning the Albumoses, and their relations to the Albu- 

 minous Molecules on the one hand, and to Peptones on the other . . 485 

 (Supplementary to pages 131 and 132.) 



II. 



On the separation of Proto- from Deutero-Albumose 488 



(Supplementary to pages 125 and 129.) 



