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Chapter V: The Laboratory of the Body.1787
transformed, in the intervals of digestion, into glucose or a substance similar
to grape sugar. The pancreas secretes the pancreatic juices, which it pours
into the small intestine, to aid in intestinal digestion, where it acts chiefly
upon the fatty portions of the food. The kidneys are located in the loins,
behind the intestines. They are two in number and are shaped like beans.
They purify the blood by removing from it a poisonous substance called
urea and other waste products. The fluid secreted by the kidneys is carried
by two tubes, called ureters, to the bladder. The bladder is located in the
pelvis and serves as a reservoir for the urine, which consists of waste fluids
carrying with it refuse matter of the system.
Before leaving this part of the subject we wish to call the attention of
our readers to the fact that when the food enters the stomach and small
intestines improperly masticated and insalivated—when the teeth and
salivary glands have not been given a chance to do their work properly—
digestion is interfered with and impeded and the digestive organs are
overworked and are rendered unable to accomplish what is asked of them.
It is like asking one set of workmen to do their own work in addition to the
work which should have been previously performed by another set of men—
it is asking the railroad engineer to perform the duties of firemen as well as
his own—to keep the fire going on an up grade and run the locomotive on
a dangerous bit of road at the same time. The absorbents of the stomach
and intestines must absorb something—that is their business—and if you
do not give them the proper materials they will absorb the fermenting and
putrefying mass in the stomach and pass it along to the blood. The blood
carries this poor material to all parts of the body, including the brain, and
it is no wonder that people complain of biliousness, headache, etc., when
they are being self-poisoned in this way.