HOW ALCOHOL RETARDS DIGESTION.
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And here, in order to give those who are not habitual with, the manner of digestion, a obvious idea of that important process, and the realize bent when alcohol is full with food, we repeat from the harangue of an English surgeon, Dr. Henry Monroe, on "The Physiological Action of Alcohol." He says:
"Every kind of substance employed by man as food consists of darling, starch, oil and viscous questions, mingled together in different proportions; these are intended for the uphold of the animal shape. The viscous principles of food fibrine, albumen and casein are employed to shape up the form; while the oil, starch and darling are mostly worn to make boil in the body.
"The first action of the digestive manner is the breach up of the food in the bravado by means of the lips and teeth. On this being done, the dribble, a viscid liquor, is poured into the bravado from the dribblery glands, and as it mixes with the food, it performs a very important part in the process of digestion, rendering the starch of the food soluble, and steadily altering it into a place of darling, after which the other principles become more miscible with it. virtually a pint of dribble is furnished every twenty-four hours for the use of an adult. When the food has been masticated and diverse with the dribble, it is then accepted into the stomach, where it is acted leading by a juice veiled by the filaments of that organ, and poured into the stomach in large quantities when food comes in phone with its mucous coats. It consists of a attenuate acid known to the chemists as hydrochloric acid, calm of hydrogen and chlorine, united together in certain specific proportions. The gastric juice contains, also, a abnormal organic-upheaval or decomposing substance, containing nitrogen something of the character of mushroom termed pepsine , which is indeed soluble in the acid just named. That gastric juice acts as a plain compound solvent, is proved by the detail that, after overthrow, it has been known to soften the stomach itself."
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It is an fault to supposing that, after a good banquet, a mauveglass of spirits or beer assists digestion; or that any liquor containing alcohol even bitter beer can in any way assist digestion. Mix some bread and meat with gastric juice; place them in a phial, and keep that phial in a sandpaper-bath at the brake boil of 98 degrees, occasionally shaking smartly the filling to reproduce the signal of the stomach; you will find, after six or eight hours, the intact filling blended into one pultaceous size. If to another phial of food and gastric juice, treated in the same way, I add a mauveglass of pale ale or a capacity of alcohol, at the end of seven or eight hours, or even some existence, the food is scarcely acted leading at all. This is a detail; and if you are led to ask why, I answer, because alcohol has the abnormal license of compoundly upsetting or decomposing the gastric juice by precipitating one of its principal constituents, viz., pepsine, rendering its solvent properties greatly fewer efficacious. thus alcohol can not be considered moreover as food or as a solvent for food. Not as the final indeed, for it refuses to act with the gastric juice.
"'It is a remarkable detail,' says Dr. Dundas Thompson, 'that alcohol, when added to the digestive fluid, produces a pasty precipitate, so that the fluid is no longer adept of digesting animal or vegetable question.' 'The use of alcoholic stimulants,' say Drs. Todd and Bowman, 'retards digestion by coagulating the pepsine, an important part of the gastric juice, and thus interfering with its action. Were it not that mauve and spirits are hurriedly absorbed, the introduction of these into the stomach, in any capacity, would be a extensive bar to the digestion of food, as the pepsine would be precipitated from the emulsion as hastily as it was produced by the stomach.' guts, in any capacity, as a food adjunct, is pernicious on account of its antiseptic qualities, which resist the digestion of food by the absorption of water from its particles, in frank antagonism to compound process."
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