RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Marshall, Outlines of Physiology, vol. 2. CUL-DAR209.15.76. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR209.15 contains notes and photographs for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

Marshall, John. 1867. Outlines of physiology: human and comparative. London: Longmans.


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J. Marshall outline of Physiology. vol. 2 1867

p. 63. from observations on dogs the secretion of gastric juice is less, abundantly excited by mechanical than by chemical or special irritants.

p 89. strong acid artificial gastric juice is better adapted for the digestion of albumen & cooked muscle; whilst fibrin is more quickly dissolved by weaker acid.

p. 93 with man "fibrin digested in 1/2 hour; casein in 1 1/2 h. gelatine in 2 h. "During gastric digestion the muscular tissue breaks up into fibres, the striæ of which gradually disappear

p. 364 Mucus from the air-passages contains albumen ü

p. 57 saliva contains albumen with soda .17

Ptyalin .18 mucus .26. —, &c

p. 163 Dialysis (which is the same as endosmose & exosmose) by is influenced by variance "& to a certain degree, though less than liquid diffusion, by temperature" ß Mimosa â

p. 164 Colloids do dialyse — yet it is admitted that great agency in all acts of absorption & [illeg] — are they all the substances made crystalloids — or like peptones


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