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Excerpt from Mercers' Company Lectures on Recent Advances in the Physiology of Digestion: Delivered in the Michaelmas Term, 1905, in the Physiological Department of University College, London In recognition of a generous gift by the Mercers' Company in aid of the work of the Physiological Department at University College, the Council of the College resolved that a course of Lectures should be given each year dealing with the original investigations made in the Department. In presenting this first course of Mercers' Company Lectures I have attempted, in the light of researches which have been carried out in this laboratory, to give an appreciation of the present state of our knowledge on certain aspects of the subject of digestion, in preference to describing at length the researches themselves, which can be read in the original papers enumerated at the end of this book. The great development in this branch of Physiology, which has taken place in recent years, owes its inception to the masterly series of researches carried out by Pawlow in the Institute of Experimental Medicine at St. Petersburg, researches to which I shall have repeated occasion to refer in the course of the following Lectures. Two other important lines of investigation have presented themselves as necessary to the proper understanding of the biological facts elucidated by Pawlow. The first of these is the study of the chemical and physical conditions which determine the digestive changes in the food-stuffs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.