It digests lumbricoids and tape-worms and the false membrane of croup, in a few hours.
The natives use the cold infusion of the leaves to wash clothes spotted with blood and the spots disappear rapidly by virtue of the ferment papain which digests the fibrin.
As digesting, when all is said, merely means liquefying, it is no paradox to assert that the maggot digests its food before swallowing it.
As digestion, after all, merely means liquefaction, we may say, without being guilty of paradox, that the grub of the bluebottle digests its food before swallowing it.
It is a stomach that loads itself, digests and goes on adding to its reserves.
Here it is the skin, which digests, while in the Intestinal animals it is the intestine, which digests and breathes.
The lungs and nose breathe out the tones; the tonguedigests them; the lips move them, and fashion them into perfect bodies--words.
The Oozoon brings forth young in the same cavity, in which it digests and by which it respires, and impregnates itself with the same filaments, whereby it seizes, swallows, and tastes its food.
The Commission might also be interested in either digests or the fuller materials on world reactions to the President's assassination.
After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it.
Whether I will or not, while I live, my heart beats, and my ventricle digests what is in it.
This same clause appears in the four following printed digests named above, and it remained a law of the colony till February, 1783, when the General Assembly formally repealed so much of it as related to Roman Catholics.
The obstacle in the way is not lack of reports or digests on which to frame a code, but the incapacity of parliament to do the work itself, and its unwillingness to trust the work to other hands.
Three digests are prepared from the full returns made to the tax receiver, who must furnish one to the Comptroller-General, the tax collector, and the ordinary.
It is his duty to examine carefully and compare the tax digests of the several counties of the State, to the end that property located in different counties may bear its equitable burden of taxation.
It is not that the fat person eats or digests more than the lean one (he may not eat nearly as much in fact), but he excretes less.
We may not know in how many instances the laborer digests his breakfast, dinner, and supper together (or about all that he does digest) after he is in bed for the night.
It opens, cures and digests humours, and mightily provokes women’s courses and urine.
Galen saith, that being applied in manner of a poultice to any swelling or inflammation, it digests the swelling, and allays the inflammation, and is therefore given in clysters to evacuate from the belly offensive humours.
The decoction of the herb taken in honey, digests the phlegm in the chest or lungs, and with Hyssop helps the cough.
It digests and opens the passages of the veins: surely it is as great an expeller of wind as any is.
It comforts the sinews that are over-strained, mollifies all swellings: It moderately comforts all parts that have need of warmth, digests and dissolves whatsoever has need thereof, by a wonderful speedy property.
The decoction of the Wood Sage provokes urine and women’s courses: It also provokes sweat, digests humours, and discusses swellings and nodes in the flesh, and is therefore thought to be good against the French pox.
The liver is delighted exceedingly with sweet things, draws them greedily, anddigests them as swiftly, and that is the reason honey is so soon turned into choler.
It stays vomiting, eases hiccoughs, assuages swellings, provokes urine, helps such as are troubled with fits of the mother, anddigests raw humours.
Matthiolus saith, that the root hereof cures tough phlegm, digests raw phlegm, thins gross humours, dissolves hard tumours, and opens obstructions.
Its columns are open to all station workers, and I would here appeal to the members of the association to help make it, as far as possible, national, by sending brief notes and digests of their work as it progresses.
Under these circumstances, it would seem wiser to devote all the energies of the bureau to digests of the similar literature of other countries, which would be of immense advantage to our people and to the different station workers.
As entomologist of the department, I have been urged to bring together, at stated intervals, digests of the entomological publications of the different stations.
Such digests to be of any value, however, should also be critical, and it were a thankless task for any one to be critic or censor even of that which needs correction or criticism.
Complete and satisfactory digests of all, if intelligent and critical, imply a far greater force than is at present at Prof.
The National Bureau of Experiment Stations at Washington is doing what it can with the means at command to further the general work by issuing the Experiment Station Record, devoted chiefly to digests of the State station bulletins.
Digests every variety of food, removes every symptom of indigestion, restores the entire digestive tract to a normal condition.
I cite the statement, ‘Taka-Diastase digests starchy food with vigor and directness.
Test tube experiments show that pepsin hydrolyzes proteins in acid solutions; that pancreatindigests protein in alkaline liquids, and that diastase converts starch into sugar.
Now, is it possible that, when the faculty which naturally digests food is weak, the animal's digestion fails, whereas the faculty which turns the digested food into blood cannot suffer any kind of impairment?
As regards the stomach, certainly, Erasistratus held that one should at least investigate how it digests the food.
In the process of nutrition the organism digests small quantities of the outside world; in consciousness it digests the world as a whole.
Nathan Leites, The Operational Code of the Politburo (New York, 1951), digests Soviet fundamentals of international behavior.
Such absurdities as the encipherment and decipherment of routine enemy news digests should by all means be avoided.
The first digestsof New Haven and Connecticut plantations are comprised in Trumbull's True Blue Laws (Hartford, 1876).
But earth, too, is a machine, a machine that crushes the bones of the philosopher into dust, digests them, that crushes and digests all things.
There must be the divine principle within, which feeds upon and digests the rich pasture of God's Word, else the impression of the footstep will be of no avail.
They, in their turn, sit down at the table and the conclave of sovereign bellies digests without giving itself further trouble about the millions of stomachs that are empty.
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