0575 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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The pancreatic juice helps digestion mostly in the small
intestine. It consists of water in organic salts of which sodium
carbonate is the most important, and a number of ferments. The or-
dinary time that it takes wheat bread to pass out of the stomach
is not less than three hours. The time for a meal consisting of
cabbage cooked for about an hour and wheat biscuit to pass out of
the stomach depends a great deal upon the mastication of the food.
The times given above have reference to the most favorable condi-
tions. If the cabbage is not well chewed, it would take considerably
longer. It is impossible to tell exactly how long. There is no reg-
ular rule about how long such substances as cabbage and wheat bread
will be found in a person's stomach. It depends upon too many dif-
ferent factors. Even in a healthy normal stomach the digestion might
be arrested or retarded at any stage, as by strong emotion such
as fear and anger or violent physical exercise, or the state of
mastication. The Pyloris prevents passage of food to the intestines
except when it is liquid and when there is free hydro chloric acid
in the stomach. If solid food touches the pyloris it closes immed-
iately and nothing passes for a time. If there were particles of
cabbage in the stomach unmasticated in which you can see part of
the leaf they are liable to keep the contents of the stomach in it
seven or eight hours or longer by coming into contact with the
pyloris. The liquid contents would pass into the intestines. The
solid part would be retained for a very long time. The pyloris
works mechanically, and unless a chemist knows to what extent those
unchewed portions have affected the pyloris he can give no reliable
estimate as to how long such food has been in the stomach. It is a
guess. The acid in the stomach is hydro chloris,consisting of one
atom of hydrogen and one of chlorine. It combines with protein,
only one percent of cabbage is protein, and only about one percent
of the cabbage is acted upon in the stomach;the balance is acted
upon in the small intestine,and in the mouth,where diges-
tion begins to a certain extent. The salts in the saliva act on the
stomach in the cabbage.