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PHYSIOLOGY OF ALIMENTATION. 



activity is expressed in number of centimeters of egg-albumin 

 or starch digested out of the tubes in the unit of time. As 

 has already been pointed out, this method is not free from 



FIG. 26. Curve of secretion of pancreatic juice after feeding 600 c.c. 



milk. Two experiments. 



(Copied from PAWLOW: Work of the Digestive Glands. Trans, by 

 THOMPSON, London, 1902, p. 24.) 



objection. The values obtained in different experiments 

 agree so well with each other, however, that the results must 

 be looked upon as correct, at least in the main. 



HOURLY VARIATION OF DIGESTIVE POWER OF PANCREATIC JUICE 

 AFTER A MEAL OF 600 c.c. MILK. 



Hour. Lipolytic ferment. Amylolytic ferment. Proteolytic ferment. 



Exp. a. 



14.0 



20.0 



7.0 



6.0 



Exp. 6. 



14.0 



13.0 



5.2 



7.0 



Exp. a. 

 5.1 

 5.0 

 2.4 

 3.3 



Exp. 6. 

 5.0 

 4.7 

 2.4 

 3.4 



Exp. a. 

 5.8 

 5.9 

 4.3 

 4.5 



Exp. 6. 

 5.5 

 5.5 

 4.1 

 4.4 



These values are expressed in curves in Fig. 27. 



