Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c20.s3: (c) Digestion
Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c20.s3
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(c) Digestion
c20.s3.1
The Hindu physicians knew the digestive system well and described it satisfactorily.
c20.s3.2
1. The function of different digestive fluids was understood. They were familiar with the acid gastric juice in the stomach. They knew also that in the small intestines there is a digestive substance in the bile.
c20.s3.3
2. They were familiar with, and explained, the conversion of the semi-digested food (chyme) into chyle, and of that again into blood.
c20.s3.4
3. They explained the chemical changes by the action of metabolic heat.