0705 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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The starch digestion should have progressed beyond the state
erythrogetrin; in the course of an hour. There should have been
enough free acid to have stimulated the n pyloris, and back to a
certain extent, and there should have been some contents in the
duodenum. I am assuming of course that it is a healthy stomach and
that the digestion was not disturbed by any psychic cause which
would disturb the mind or any severe physical exercise. I am
not going so much by the physical appearance of the cabbage. Any
severe physical exercise or mental stress has quite an influence
on digestion. Death does not change the composition of the gastric
juices when combined with hydrochloric acid for quite a while.
The gastric juices combine with the hydrochloric acid are an
antiseptic or preservative. There is a wide variation in diseased
stomachs as to digestion.

CROSS EXAMINATION: There are idiosyncracies in a normal stomach,
but where they are too marked I would not consider that a normal
stomach. I wouldn't say that there is a mechanical rule where you
can measure the digestive power of every stomach for every kind
of food. There is a set time for every stomach to digest every
kind of food within fairly regular limits, that is a healthy stomach.
There is a fairly fixed standard. There is no great amount of
variation between healthy stomachs. I can't answer how long
it takes cabbage to digest. I have taken cabbage out of cancerous
stomach that had been in there twenty four hours, but there was
an obstruction. The longest time that I have taken cabbage out of
a fairly normal stomach was between four and five hours. That
was where it was in the stomach along with another meal. I found a
the cabbage among the remains of the meal four or five hours after
it had been eaten. Mastication is a very important function
of digestion. Failure to masticate delays the starch digestion.
Starch and cabbage are both carbohydrates. I would say that if
cabbage went into a healthy stomach not well masticated, the starch
digestion would not get on so well, but the stomach would get