Excerpt from Physiology of Digestion: Considered With Relation to the Principles of Dietetics Tn: present volume is essentially a continuation of the work first published about two years ago, un der the title of The Principles of Physiology ap plied to the Preservation of Health and to the In provement of Physical and Mental Education and its object is the same-namely, to lay before the public a plain and intelligible description of the arruo ture and uses of some of the more important organs of the human body, and to show how information of this kind may be usefully applied in practical life. 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.