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RESPIRATION continued 



Vital capacity ... . 208 



Intra-thoracic pressure 



Respiratory pressure - 



Relation of respiration to the nervous system 



Chemistry of respiration 



Solution and pressure of gases 



The gases of the blood 



Seats of oxidation 



Respiration of muscle 



Influence of respiration on blood-pressure 



Effects of breathing condensed and rarefied air 



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Voice and speech - . 259 



CHAPTER IV. 



DIGESTION - - 279 



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Mechanical phenomena of digestion 



Deglutition - 



Movements of stomach and intestines 



Vomiting 



Chemistry of the digestive juices 



Saliva ... 



Gastric juice - 



Pancreatic juice ... 



Bile- 



Succus entericus 



Secretion of the digestive juices 



Changes in pancreas and parotid during secretion 

 Changes in gastric glands during secretion - 

 Changes in mucous glands during secretion 

 Mode of formation of the digestive juices 

 Why the stomach does not digest itself 



Influence of the nervous system on the salivary glands 



Influence of the nervous system on the gastric glands 



Influence of the nervous system on the pancreas 



Influence of the nervous system on the secretion of bile 



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Influence of the nervous system on the secretion of intestinal 



juice - - 347 



Secretion of the digestive juices (summary) - 348 



Digestion as a whole 348 



Bactericidal function of the gastric juice - - 355 



Bacterial digestion - - 357 



CHAPTER V. 



ABSORPTION 360 



Diffusion and osmosis 360 



Absorption of the food - 363 



Theories of absorption 366 



Formation of lymph - 368 



Absorption of fat - 370 



Absorption of water, salts, and sugar - - 372 



Absorption of proteids - 372 



CHAPTER VI. 



EXCRETION - 385 



Excretion by the kidneys - 386 



Chemistry of urine - 386 



