Intestinal Flora and Nutrition

نویسنده

  • R. Hughes
چکیده

Sir,?There is one aspect of study in nutrition which does not yet appear to have been accorded its true value. I refer to the part played by the organisms living inside the alimentary tract of man. To the majority studies on nutrition end at the stage at which the food is Swallowed. Others, more exact, define conditions in which absorption of the ultimate products of digestion is disturbed as follows :? (1) By mechanical causes such as short circuits, internal fistulse, obstruction of the lumen or excisions of gut or irritative conditions causing ' intestinal hurry', form one group of conditions limiting

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دوره 79  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1944