Word: gastrically
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...stomach." Let him then deal very gently with that one. All solid food should be thoroughly chewed, in order to submit the insoluble starch of vegetables to the action of saliva, converting it into soluble sugar, and to divide the nitrogenous food so as to render the access of gastric juice to all particles of it easy, on its arrival in the stomach. When a large amount of ice-water is taken with meals, dyspepsia undoubtedly results from it at times. As Americans are the great consumers of water in this condition, it has been called American, or ice-water...
...certain point on the posterior part of the tongue, it is completely out of our power to resist swallowing. After leaving the mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce the gastric juice. The muscles of the stomach are described as consisting of three layers. At the lower opening is a muscle called the sphincter, which opens and shuts the outlet into the intestines. The mucous membrane lining the stomach is continuous with that in the mouth, running along down through the oesophagus...