Word: starched
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HomansMiss Medusa, proprietress of Primrose Hall - prim, starch, and stately, and easily embarrassed...
...have had some value. "A man has two lungs, two kidneys, two hemispheres to the brain, and two sides to his body generally, but only one 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...
...various factors in this very important process." Saliva, the first factor, has a mechanical action, by penetrating all through the food in the mouth, it makes the work of grinding it up by the teeth much more easy. It is an alkaline fluid, and has the property of changing starch into sugar. Mr. Huxley's model man would eat 12 oz. of bread and 6 oz. of potatoes every twenty-four hours...
...Starch is a compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, each of them an essential constituent of the body. All food should be well masticated, and the proportion of vegetable and animal foods eaten carefully considered. When a portion of food, or drink, saliva, or any other substance has been carried back past a 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...
...ordinary diet should include all the factors which are found in the various tissues together with enough water to amply supply the system. Foods are divided into the nitrogenous or gluten-bearing class, such as meats, and the non-nitrogenous such as fats, starch, sugar, etc. A brain worker requires more fats, and a muscle worker more nitrogenous foods. Over brain exercise sometimes produces insensibility to hunger, and students, after light suppers and long night study, find themselves unable to sleep, although not conscious of lack of food. A light lunch is often a cure for this condition...