The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition
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- The A. B.-Z. of OUR OWN NutritioN
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- POSTINTRODUCTORY
- A. B.-Z. PRIMER
- EXPLANATION
- SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS
- METHOD
- A. B.-Z. FIGURE TO ILLUSTRATE THE “DIVISION OF LABOUR”
- PREFACE TO 1906 EDITIONS
- HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORTING EVIDENCE
- SUMMARY OF THE FOREGOING PAGES BY AN EXPERIMENTER OF ONE MONTH’S EXPERIENCE (Requested and given as a test of effectiveness)
- FIRST SCIENTIFIC RECOGNITION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMIC NUTRITION OUTLINED IN “GLUTTON OR EPICURE”
- WAS LUIGI CORNARO RIGHT?
- THE CAMBRIDGE TESTS
- EXPERIMENTS UPON HUMAN NUTRITION Note by Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., M.P., F.R.S.
- REPORT OF A PLAN FOR THE INSTITUTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTO THE SUBJECT OF HUMAN NUTRITION
- PROPOSAL TO FOUND AN INTERNATIONAL LABORATORY OF RESEARCH FOR THE STUDY OF NUTRITION IN ALL ITS ASPECTS
- Outline of the Proposed Subjects Of Research to be Undertaken in the Proposed International Laboratory
- Estimates for the Proposed Laboratory
- Suggestions as to Desirability of Location
- Suggestions as to Management of the Proposed International Institute
- NATIONALITY AND SCIENTIFIC TITLES OF OUR BOARD OF SCIENTIFIC ASSESSORS
- PERSISTENT SCIENTIFIC DOUBTS
- PHYSIOLOGICAL ECONOMY IN NUTRITION By Russell H. Chittenden Director of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University
- INTRODUCTION TO DR. HARRY CAMPBELL’S CONTRIBUTION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF MASTICATION
- OBSERVATIONS ON MASTICATION By Harry Campbell, M.D., F.R.C.P. (Lond.) Physician to the Northwest London Hospital [London Lancet, July 11, 18, 25, and August 8, 1903]
- The Effects of Mastication
- The Influence of Mastication on the Jaws and Adjacent Structures
- Changes which the Jaws and Teeth of Man have undergone during Man’s Evolution from his Anthropoid Ancestors
- Instances of the Vigorous Use to which the Jaws and Teeth are put among Existing Primitive Peoples
- The Instinct to Masticate
- The Causation of Inefficient Mastication
- Evils resulting from Inefficient Mastication
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- MEANS OF INSURING ADEQUATE MASTICATION
- PROFESSOR PAWLOW’S DEMONSTRATIONS OF PSYCHIC INFLUENCE IN DIGESTION
- LECTURE IV
- LECTURE V
- LECTURE VIII PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION AND THE TEACHING OF INSTINCT: EXPERIENCES OF THE PHYSICIAN
- SWALLOWING AND MOVEMENTS OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES By W. B. Cannon, M.D. Of the Physiological Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
- THE MOVEMENTS OF THE FOOD IN THE ŒSOPHAGUS By W. B. Cannon and A. Moser From the Laboratory of Physiology in the Harvard Medical School Extracts from American Journal of Physiology, 1898
- Summary.
- THE MOVEMENTS OF THE STOMACH STUDIED BY MEANS OF THE RÖNTGEN RAYS By W. B. Cannon, M.D. From the Laboratory of Physiology in the Harvard Medical School Extracts from American Journal of Physiology, 1898
- Introductory Literature
- The Anatomy of the Stomach and its Relations to the Shadow
- The Normal Movements of the Stomach
- The Movements of the Stomach in Vomiting
- The Effect of the Movements of the Stomach on the Food
- Salivary Digestion in the Stomach
- The Inhibition of Stomach Movements during Emotion
- Summary
- THE MOVEMENTS OF THE INTESTINES STUDIED BY MEANS OF THE RÖNTGEN RAYS[33] By W. B. Cannon From the Laboratory of Physiology in the Harvard Medical School Extracts from American Journal of Physiology, 1902
- Introduction
- The Movements of the Small Intestine
- The Competence of the Ileocæcal Valve
- The Movements of the Large Intestine
- The Question of Antiperistalsis
- The Effect of Emotions and Sleep
- Summary
- THE BATTLE CREEK LABORATORIES THE MAMMOTH SANITARIUM AND THE LARGE ADOPTED FAMILY OF DR. AND MRS. J. H. KELLOGG
- EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF MASTICATION AND COOKING OF FOOD, ETC., IN THE LABORATORIES OF THE BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, SANITARIUM, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR. J. H. KELLOGG
- DR. EDWARD HOOKER DEWEY AND THE “NO BREAKFAST PLAN”
- PROFESSOR JAFFA AND THE FRUITARIANS
- DR. H. P. ARMSBY
- Explanation of The A. B. C. Life Series THE ESSENTIALS AND SEQUENCE IN LIFE
- Index
- FOOTNOTES:
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