Yearbook Of Medicine Surgery And Their Allied Sciences For 1862

Excerpt from A Year-Book of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences for 1862 Bitter attributes the rapid increase in the secretion of bile, shortly after food has been taken, partly to the water getting into the circula tion, partly to the acceleration of the circulation, and partly to the pressure exerted by the full stomach upon the liver and bile-ducts. The less the amount of food which has been taken the sooner the second maximum in the secretion occurs. At the end of twenty-fonr hours after a rich meal the bile continued to be secreted in greater quantity, than it did at the same period after a poor meal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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