Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-09
LECTURES ON
HEALTH ARE
VERY HELPFUL
ON DIGESTION LAST NIGHT
School Of Health Having an
Interesting Session

Atlanta, April 8.-"Man is truly
composed of the dust of the earth. H.
is a brother to the clod. But through
the wonderful laboratory of his di-
gestion a transformation is wrought
that makes him lord of the elements
and at his bidding the forces of ma
ture do his WILL" said DR.. L. L. An
| drews tonight in lecture delivered
at the second session of the Weekly
School of Health which he is con-
| Quoting every Monday night in con-
nection with the great evangelistic
effort of Evangelist Haynes in the
old Broughton tabernacle. DR.. An
drews is the medical superintendent
of the Atlanta sanitarium. These
health lectures are attracting much
attention and large and interested
crowd was in attendance tonight. DR..
gestion; It's Anatomy and Chemistry" :"
and said, in part:
Life is form with a stream of
matter flowing through it. Even the
form itself is modified, changed, by
the additions and subtractions that
are made in the onward flow of the
matter. This is true of both animal
and vegetable life. Matter-the va
rious elements composing the earth,
the sea, and the air-are in constant
state of change. One form is main
tanned today, different one tomor-
row. The form perishes, the matter
endures. Energy, heat, thought, as
manifested in the varied living forms.
are the products of this ever-chang-
ing cycle.
Now the matter to be built into the
various objects must be modified. Ev
cry tree and shrub and plant, have
their systems of digestion in their
roots and leaves. Their food is the
raw elements. Their products are the
fruits and grains and vegetables OF
the earth. But what a difference be-
tween the raw element and the fin
ished product. The secret is all in
the chemical laboratory of the plants
digestion. Here the wonder IS
wrought The form of the matter is
changed though the element endures.
"And so it is in all animal life Man
is truly composed of the dust of the
earth. He is brother to the clod.
place! He is Lord of the elements,
and at his bidding the forces of nature
do his will The change has been
wrought in the wonderful laboratory
of his digestion. This is an appara-
tus consisting of tube of about 80
feet in length with little way stations
along it's course where the food IS
changed and prepared to be built into
nerve and bone and muscle.
"The first division of this organ is
the mouth, with it's nerves of taste
and it's two sets of glands, the mucous
and the salivary. Within the oral
cavity the food should be thoroughly
divided and mixed with the salivarv
and mucous secretions. This enables
the food to be swallowed and also
acts upon the starch and sugars,
changing them to a more easily diges-
tible form of food called dextrose.
"The food upon being swallowed
enters the second great division OF
the digestive tract, a pear-shaped ca
witty, holding about three pints, called
the stomach. Here it remains from
two to four hours, according to the
| character of it's digestibility. being
thoroughly mixed by the rhythmic mo-
ton of the stomach with the gastric
secretions which consist of about two
tenths per cent. solution of hydro
chloric acid, together with two active
digestive principles or enzymos, call
ed pepsin and reRnin. These act spe'
cifically upon the proteids of the foods
changing them into form called pep
tones, an easily assimilated form o.
food The starch or carbohydrate
forms of food are not altered in th'
stomach.
"As the rhythmic movements of th'
stomach increase in force and vigo
under the stimuli of the pressure o
food and the process of digestion, th'
pyloric sphincter is relaxed at regu
lar intervals, permitting the fnel,
reduced food content to be elected in
to the small intestine. Here there il
| poured upon it the combined secre
. tions Of the pancreas and the live
which act upon the food content as
whole, emulsifying its fats, reducin
the starch molecule to an assimilabl
4 form and completing the protoid di
5 gestion begun i'm the stomach. AS tn
1 food moves onward under the actio
OF the intestinal peristaltic wave
: various intestinal digestive fluids ar
h Epoured upon the food, completing tn
process OF digestion and aiding in