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Page 68 - Whenever this morbid condition of the stomach occurs, with the usual accompanying symptoms of disease, there is generally a corresponding appearance of the tongue. When a healthy state of the stomach is restored, the tongue invariably becomes clean.
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Page 141 - In other words, pulmonary circulation carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs, and oxygenated blood back to the left side of the heart.
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Page 68 - Drinks received are immediately absorbed, or otherwise disposed of, none remaining in the stomach ten minutes after being swallowed. Food taken in this condition of the stomach, remains undigested for twenty-four or fortyeight hours or more, increasing the derangement of the whole alimentary canal, and aggravating the general symptoms of disease...
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Page 65 - The fluid so discharged, is absorbed by the aliment in contact, or collects in small drops and trickles down the sides of the stomach to the more depending parts, and there mingles with the food or whatever else may be contained in the gastric cavity.