Show I 1 I 1 nf luence of hot drinks drinka on digestion various opinion ioni ore arc held toy ly the public and we ile believe by medical men inen also oil an tile effect of 0 liot hot 1 on the digestion of food booti this ma matter t his has lately liter been investigated 1 by Y dr V E N vechel of st peters acu i j bairs the plan lq hi adopted adopt ek win was to illa kiako ko uc time of twenty patients in ill tit aliu L surgical wards of the hospital suffering froni from fracture of 1110 fibula contusion of lie foot such like jike affections und and diled 0 them into two sets of ten tell eath to to find out firl firt t 1 y a three ilas i ex pert ment tile lie length of time nil an ordinary aneal of ment potatoes 5 null anil lack black bread inquired for dies di es tion lion for this purpose tile the sto I 1 iun li tube at periods var varying T fro from to ta seven hourt houri and ami a half balf tile meal and tile tion of the contents of the stomach examined in ill all the riles complete breaking down opp appeared eared top iv it ire taken plate pl ILC ill in aboul six hours and a half the exact time required by each cadi individual for the digestion of the specified ucal bein noted ons sicre made on oil a subsequent sequent lay day tile patients in the hie first group being given of a atler te r t tho men meal 0 hot tchi I 1 at a temperature of from froin 31 30 to lo 75 5 de derees degrees 0 rees C tile the quantity tit taken varin froni from two live to lo eight tumbler fuls tta tho contents of 0 like alic stomach were drawn off at the time linie when ns as former experiments had shown digestion 0 would bluder ordinary conditions have been complete tile the result ivna a that not more alian three of bottea had been sit swallowed alon ell it was found that digestion had progressed coed just as well as 2 without w it but a lar larger quantify quan tily 0 of f liot hot ten tea appeared 1 distinctly I P Is to lo retard the digestive iii estive process tito second 0 group of patients ocic hen a meal ti ii nilar milar to ishad they alicy coall hail had beaole but liot hot OB 04 examining a tile cont contents cuts of their stomachs no difference could be detected between the rate of ili digestion estion of liol hot laid and cold food the coauthor author found that by painting tile 1 with ith a 2 per cent solution of hydro chIn rate of cocoa coco alne inc tile hie tube passed bossed easily caily still and lawt Linc et |