An Introduction to Gastro–Enterology : The Mechanics of the Digestive Tract

The Mechanics of the Digestive Tract, Fourth Edition: An Introduction to Gastro-Enterology provides information pertinent to the mechanics of the digestive tract. This book reviews the various explanations for the downward progress of intestinal waves. Organized into 34 chapters, this edition begins with an overview of the main types of activity in the small bowel. This text then explains the nature of the polarity and the location of the mechanism that produces it. Other chapters consider the duodenal tonus contraction in which the wave seems to originate generally appears a few seconds before a gastric wave reaches the pylorus. This book discusses as well the polarity of the bowel that caused every contraction ring to spread caudad as soon it formed. The final chapter provides a list of books that are likely to be helpful to readers who are starting on their lifework in the fields of gastro-enterology and gastro-intestinal physiology. This book is a valuable resource for students, teachers, physicians, and research workers. Content: Inside Front Cover, Page ii Front Matter, Page iii Copyright, Page iv PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION, Page v PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION, Pages v-viii PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, Pages ix-x LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, Pages xvii-xxii CHAPTER I - THE MOTOR FUNCTIONS OF THE SMALL BOWEL, Pages 1-33 CHAPTER II - THE FACULTATIVE AUTONOMY OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT, Pages 34-38 CHAPTER III - SOME THEORIES THAT HAVE BEEN ADVANCED TO EXPLAIN THE POLARITY OF THE SMALL BOWEL, Pages 39-58 CHAPTER IV - THE GRADIENT THEORY OF THE POLARIZATION OF THE BOWEL, Pages 59-79 CHAPTER V - A POSSIBLE BASIC METABOLIC GRADIENT, Pages 80-86 CHAPTER VI - OTHER RELATED GRADIENTS, Pages 87-99 CHAPTER VII - WAYS IN WHICH A GRADIENT MIGHT CONCEIVABLY BE ALTERED OR REVERSED, Pages 100-136 CHAPTER VIII - THE SYNDROME OF REVERSE PERISTALSIS, Pages 137-175 CHAPTER IX - THE SMOOTH MUSCLE OF THE GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT, Pages 176-182 CHAPTER X - THE MUSCULAR VERSUS THE NERVOUS ORIGIN OF THE RHYTHMIC CONTRACTIONS OF THE GUT, Pages 183-202 CHAPTER XI - THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE MYENTERIC PLEXUSES, Pages 203-245 CHAPTER XII - THE EXTRINSIC NERVES OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT AND THEIR FUNCTIONS, Pages 246-293 CHAPTER XIII - CHEWING AND SWALLOWING, Pages 294-312 CHAPTER XIV - THE CARDIA, Pages 313-324 CHAPTER XV - THE MOVEMENTS OF THE STOMACH, Pages 325-363 CHAPTER XVI - GRADIENTS IN THE MUSCULAR WALL OF THE STOMACH, Pages 364-375 CHAPTER XVII - THE PYLORUS AND THE DUODENAL CAP, Pages 376-446 CHAPTER XVIII - HUNGER CONTRACTIONS AND THE PAIN OF ULCER, Pages 447-468 CHAPTER XIX - MOVEMENTS OF THE STOMACH THAT IS DISEASED OR HAS BEEN OPERATED ON, Pages 469-474 CHAPTER XX - VOMITING, Pages 475-497 CHAPTER XXI - THE MECHANICS OF THE GALLBLADDER, Pages 498-542 CHAPTER XXII - THE MUSCULARIS MUCOSAE, Pages 543-547 CHAPTER XXIII - THE ILEOCECAL SPHINCTER, Pages 548-563 CHAPTER XXIV - THE APPENDIX, Pages 564-568 CHAPTER XXV - THE MOVEMENTS OF THE COLON, Pages 569-606 CHAPTER XXVI - THE LENGTH AND COMPLEXITY OF THE BOWEL AS INFLUENCED BY DIET, Pages 607-616 CHAPTER XXVII - THE RATE OF PROGRESS OF FOOD RESIDUES THROUGH THE DIGESTIVE TRACT, Pages 617-633 CHAPTER XXVIII - CONSTIPATION, Pages 634-645 CHAPTER XXIX - GAS IN THE BOWEL, Pages 646-678 CHAPTER XXX - HUNGER, APPETITE AND THIRST, Pages 679-692 CHAPTER XXXI - THE MODUS OPERANDI OF A GASTRO-ENTEROSTOMY, Pages 693-702 CHAPTER XXXII - THE ELECTROGASTROGRAM AND ELECTRO-ENTEROGRAM, Pages 703-712 CHAPTER XXXIII - TECHNICAL METHODS AND APPARATUS, Pages 713-743 CHAPTER XXXIV - ON BOOKS AND READING, Pages 744-756 BIBLIOGRAPHY, Pages 757-892 INDEX, Pages 893-903