Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — Still Unsolved. [ARTICLE]

Still Unsolved.

The question why the walls of the stomach and the intestines are not di- ! Rested by the digestive fluids they . contain has been debated. but no satisfactory answer has yet been given. As long ago as 1772 Dr. John Hunter, in a paper before the Royal Society, held the ground that it was because the tissues were ; ••alive.” but the ‘-moment that any of those lose the living principle they become subject to the digestive powers of the stomach.’’'t In the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal Dr. J.

Warren goes over the ground ai\d reviews the evidence up to tlie present date.- llis own experiments were carried out on a number of frogs. He j suspended several frogS so that their 1 legs were In an’ artifical gastric juice ! made up from water, pe] sin. and' hy- | drOchloricacid,and shoved from the j presence of peptones in the fluid that tholiving’mUscles of th- frogs must 1 have undergone digestion, If the pepj sin was left out of the 1 lid the nius- ! eles were softened, but ‘ >t peptonized -7-i. e.,not digested. F. uu 'these investigations it appears i hat the question is again as far from solutiuu a* ever,