Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands. — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this,… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas. — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat. — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
