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36 the other work in connection with digestion, that one naturally feels the cold more than usual for a short time, if exposed, but this passes away within half an hour at most after a meal and a feeling of increased warmth is then noticed. As part of the mass, being digested by the stomach, assumes a condition that indicates the process of stomach digestion has been completed, it is allowed to pass the pylorus and enter the duodenum, which is a part of the small intestines. Here the food comes in contact with two other digestive juices that are poured forth under normal conditions as needed—the bile and pancreatic juices. The bile is alkaline in character; it neutralizes the gastric juice, emulsifies the fats, making them soluble, and it also has antiseptic qualities which act upon the entire intestinal canal. The pancreatic juice is similar to the saliva of the mouth and performs important offices, though in addition to digesting starchy elements it also digests albuminous—muscle making—and fat.

From the duodenum the food enters the