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MARTIN E. REHFUSS, M.D.

J Am Med Assoc. 1925;85(21):1599-1603.

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The normal digestive tract consists of a series of links, each one of which has a special function to perform. The mouth is undoubtedly the coarse comminutor of food; the esophagus is a pipe line or a transit tube; and the stomach can be considered as the first point of arrest for food as it enters the digestive tract proper. To me the stomach is not the essential organ of food digestion, but the great organ for food preparation. It completes the reduction of food to chyme, and for that purpose it shows a clean cut division of labor. Practically all physiologists are agreed that the fundus is essentially more or less of a food reservoir with the minimum of peristalsis, while the antrum is essentially a motor concerned in the fine comminution of food and the final reduction to chyme. There are certain rather well defined conceptions regarding gastric . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Read before the Section on Gastro-Enterology and Proctology at the Seventy-Sixth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, N. J., May, 1925.

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