PHYSIOLOGY 01 in. 





Hi' diet and the feeding <ji patients during convi 



very great. Bowever perfect in othi it will 



probably fail to be digested at the propi a with 



relish. Frequenl feeding with favorite n 



Lowed by thorough digestion and assimilation thi 



with larger amounts. \\ too in th< 



of the well-established praeti f starting a meal with mu' 



savory. A hors d'oeuvn is nothing more than a pi 



to appetite. It is also interesting from a practical standpoint I 



that with those who have a keen relish for - eel m< a1 s * ' 



sert has a real physiologic significance, for, as in Carle t, it 



stimulates toward the end of a meal a furl 



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Chewing food 



Fig. 149. — -Typical cur\< 

 tication of palatable food for 20 minutes. The rise in »ecrel 



mastication is doe t" chewing 



Carlson.) 



juice, and thus insures a more rapid digestion of the f 1 i ■• 



it should be remembered, is really the t' and h 



the only stage over which we can exercise voluntarj >1, 



The Hormone Element in Gastric Secretion 



Although gastric digestion is initiated by the a] 

 clear that this alone can not accounl 



during the time the f 1 is in the stomach. \ 



occupies usually about four hours, whereas w< rly 



from Carlson's observations, that the ap] 



fifteen or twenty minutes after the exciting stimu 



The appetite juice, in oth< 



retion, and the quest ion ariw b, u 

 the resi t Tl 



