Alkalies, the, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282 Alkaline reduction, 33, 34, 35, 36, 44 —— saliva, 33; its quantity increased by mastication, 96, 102, 146 Alkalinisation, 92 Altruism, placed upon a business basis, xxiv American Medical Missionary Association, the, 390 —— Medical Missionary Cause, the, xxiii —— Physiological Society, the, 68 Anderson, Dr. William G., 54, 87, 88 Anger, causes indigestion, 7 Animal economy, 40 —— food, necessitates less thorough mastication than vegetable, 67, 99-100, 173; influenced less than vegetable by cooking, 118 —— organism, the efficiency of, 58 Anthropoid apes, 115, 116 Antiperistalsis, 326, 333, 342, 345, 364; in the colon, 365-370; the question of, 377-383, 384, 385, 387, 388 Antiperistaltic waves, 365, 367, 373, 374, 376, 381, 383, 387, 388 Antrum, the, 307, 308, 311, 315, 322, 323, 326, 327, 333, 334, 336, 340, 341, 360 Apepsia, 394 Appendicitis, relationship between diet and, 141 Appendix, the, cause of catarrh of, 141 Appetite, demands proteid when wanted, xxxii; knows what to do and when to do it, xxxiii; most important factor in digestion, 6; a perfect indicator, 6; a creature of the mind, 7; the caprices of, 7; easily comprehended, how to read, 8, 9, 12; an indicator of what the body requires, 20; will close the valve when enough is eaten, 20; striking effect of insalivation upon, 50; fully understood, prevents intemperance in eating or drinking, 95; sooner satisfied with thorough mastication, 137; the first and mightiest exciter of the secretory nerves of the stomach, 210; is juice, 213; Dr. Pawlow’s experiment showing value of, 226; its initial impulse may originate in the stomach, 244; in the rich and in the poor, 252-253; care should be taken of, 254; physicians most often called on to restore, 254; remarkable how little attention is paid to, 255; bitters increase, 263, 265; the strongest of all stimuli to the digestive glands, 263; connection between gastric juice and, 265. —— earned, a preliminary necessity of easy digestion, 180 ——, false, 6, 9, 29, 75 ——, normal, 6 “Appetite juice,” the, 213, 228, 258, 259, 260 Apples, 169 Appreciation, attention necessary to create, 7; necessary to stimulate flow of digestive juices, 7, 12 Armsby, Dr. H. P., on the heat values and muscular energy values of different food elements, 397 Asiatics, the, consume smaller proportion of proteids, 82 Asparagus, 93 Astrup, E., 126 Athletes, reason for training, 22 Attention, necessary to create appreciation, 7; how to command, 8, 9, 12 Atwater, Prof. W. O., 54; on the daily proteid requirement, 76 —— Respiration Apparatus, the, 57 Australians, the, 118, 129, 163 B Bache Fund, the, 69 Bacteria, the action in the intestines of, 39, 117 Bacterial digestion, 40