Note 29 — Chapter IX · THEORY AND OBSERVATION.

Hunter in one of his lectures thus speaks playfully, but most truthfully of the various theories of digestion, which have arisen from exclusive views of different sets of facts. “Some physiologists will have it that the stomach is a mill;—others, that it is a fermenting vat;—others again, that it is a stew-pan; but in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat, nor a stew-pan—but a Stomach, gentleman, a stomach.”