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Excerpt from The Nature and Causes of Duodenal Indigestion Being the Bradshaw Lecture: Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians
Indigestion, or its synonym, dyspepsia, should be taken to signify some imperfection in the performance of the function of digestion, and should not, I hold, be made to include disorders of other functions clearly distinct from digestion, as is too often the case. The process of digestion is strictly concerned with the conversion of the solid and fluid ingesta into a fluid and diffusible form; it is essentially of a physico-chemical character, capable to a great extent of being imitated in our test-tubes and laboratories. It is, I think, most un desirable to extend the meaning of the term so as to include the process of absorption, still less those subsequent metabolic changes which tend to fit the digesta for their subse quent use in the nutrition of the tissues. These latter functions are wholly different from the acts comprised in digestion, and though equally if not more important for the well-being of the individual, are nevertheless performed by entirely different structures, and.
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