Newman, John B · New York, Fowlers and Wells · leaf 52
st real act of digestion.When this fluid is deficient, its want is imperfectly sup- STOMACH. 47 plied in the other processes of assimilation. This causealone would account for the dyspepsia, so prevalentamong tobacco chewers and smokers, who wantonlyexhaust a supply intended for other purposes than… … THE STOMACH. [The stomach is capable of containing, generally, from one to two quartsof liquid; cases occur, however—by want on the one side, and gluttonyon the other—in which this proportion is either much diminished orincreased. It has two openings—the cardiac, C, (from cardium, the heart,it…
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