Ivan Pavlov Quotes

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process, and hence, you have gas.

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

I know that I have a special stomach.

If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.

The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.

Gut health is the key to overall health.

I have kind of an iron stomach.

They want you to bring out your intestines.