Digestion.
It i 3 not generally known that food cannot be well digested in the stomach if it was not ground fine in the mouth and there mixed with a large amount of saliva (full pint or more to each average meal) constantly being poured into the month from four open tubes, one on each side, and two under the tongue. But to be thus ground and salivated it must be worked over in the mouth until it becomes a pasty mass, with no pieces left so large as a small pea. If it lacks this preparation in the mouth, it wi(l be imperfect food all the way through the body, and not do half so much good. Yet- how can it be given this absolutely necessary preparation in the mouth if one eats fast, ‘ bolts’ the food, or only chews it. enough to enable it to be pushed down ■ the food pipe without choking! It is a great saving of time, of food, of strength, and health to take plenty of time to masticate all food thoroughly.
At Marylebone a man who had previously been fined was sent to gaol for 14 days for selling half a hundredweight of coals deficient by 81b.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1030, 27 November 1891, Page 5
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