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A MANUAL OF VETERINARY PHYSIOLOGY 



Stomach, gastric juice, glands for, 

 184, 185, 186 

 influence of character 



of food on, 192 

 nervous mechanism, 



191 

 non-putrefactive, 189 

 psychical secretion, 



191, 210 

 secretagogues, action 

 of, 191 

 general considerations, 172 

 movement of food in, 207 

 nerve-supply, 209 

 nervous mechanism of, in dif- 

 ferent animals, 209, 210 

 no peptone in, 201 

 nomenclature, 174 

 not essential to life, 172, 191 

 of horse, 172 



acid of, 177, 183, 184 

 arrangement of food in, 



180 

 capacity, 173 

 fermentation in, 176 

 fundus, 174 

 gastric glands, 184 

 hay digestion, 177, 183 



duration of, 177, 



178 

 influence of water 

 on, 178 

 mucin in, 175, 186 

 mucous membrane, 174 

 no absorption from, 201 

 no churning movement, 



177 180, 208 

 oats, digestion of, 179, 183 

 duration of, 180 

 passage of fluid through, 

 209, 213 

 of food through, 173, 

 208 

 periods of digestion, 1933 

 rarely emptied, 173 

 rules for watering and 



feeding, 181 

 special physiological fea- 

 tures, 177 

 vomiting rare, 202 

 See also Diet and Digestion 

 pepsin, 189 



its action, 189] 

 products of digestion in,. 189 

 pyloric activity, 208 

 pylorus, 175 

 rennin, 190 



its action, 190 

 rupture of, 176, 203, 204, 235 

 self-digestion of, 201, 202 

 simple and complex, 172 



Stomach, starch digestion, 192 



and boiled foods, 193 

 how effected, 193 



vomiting, 202, 204 



emetics no effect on herbiv- 



ora, 204 

 why horse cannot, 202, 203 

 why ox cannot, 203 



X-ray experiments, 208 

 Storage of tissue, 361 

 Strangulation of bowels, horse, 236 

 Stratum periostale, 658 



vasculosum, 658 

 Strength of horses, 646 

 Stride, 618 



canter, 629, 650 



gallop, 631, 649 



trot, 624, 650 



walk, 623, 650 

 Stromuhr, Ludwig, 81 

 Strongylus armatus, 98 

 Strychnine, absorption of, 282 



absorption stomach, horse, 201 

 Stumbling, 623, 625, 626 

 Subarachnoid fluid, 504 

 Subdural fluid, 504 

 Submaxillary gland, 161, 162, 164, 

 167, 171 



ganglion, 170 

 Subsistence diet, 366 

 Substantia gelatinosa, 475 



nigra, 476 

 Succinic acid, 232 

 Succus entericus, 211 

 Sucking, 155 



centre for, 498 

 Suffraginis, fracture of, 616 

 Sugar, absorption of, 284 



chyle in, 289 



in blood, 23, 246, 249, 262, 289, 



323 



liver in, 246 



muscle in, 247, 248, 259 



muscular work and, 410 



oxidation of, 261, 358 



regulation of supply, 249, 259 



tests for, 763 

 Suint, 312 

 Sulphur, 751 



in bile, 240 



in body, 344 



in hair and horn, 361 



in nutrition, 751 



in urine, 329 

 Sulphuric acid, 329 

 Summation of contractions, 399 

 Superior laryngeal nerve, 148, 520 

 Surgical shock, 89, 92, 133 

 Suspensory ligament, 606 

 Swallowing, 157, 160, 209, 213. See 

 also Digestion, Fluids, Thirst 



