Explains the process of digestion, detailing how food is transformed into simpler substances that can be absorbed into the ...

A Brief Tour Of The Alimentary Canal, ... But the gut is now chic, with its microbiome playing a huge role in human health, and passing gas deemed a sign of healthy gut microbes.

So—if you assume as I did that Mary Roach’s Gulp will be straight narration down the alimentary canal (into the mouth, down the throat, into the stomach, into the intestines and beyond)—you ...

Interview: Mary Roach, Author Of 'Gulp: Adventures On The Alimentary Canal' With books like Stiff and Spook, Roach has built a reputation for making unpalatable subjects entertaining. In her new ...

In "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal," she surveys centuries' worth of weird and wonderful discoveries about our digestive system, from the lips all the way down to the anus (which Roach ...

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Mary Roach. Norton, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-08157-2 ...

Nature - The Goulstonian Lectures on the Sensibility of the Alimentary Canal Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians on March 14, 16, and 21, 1911. Skip to main content.

In this study the mycoflora of the normal adult gastrointestinal tract is described. Qualitative and quantitative determinations as well as variations in distribution along the alimentary canal ...

Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, by Mary Roach. Humans secrete two kinds of saliva, stimulated and unstimulated, no more alike than most siblings. The prettier child is stimulated saliva. It comes ...