BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE BEGINNING OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT -- MOUTH AND ORAL STRUCTURES -- THE LIPS AND CHEEKS -- THE MOUTH -- THE GUMS -- THE TEETH -- THE TONGUE -- THE SALIVARY GLANDS -- SALIVA -- CHAPTER 2 THE PASSAGE OF FOOD TO THE STOMACH -- SWALLOWING -- THE PHARYNX -- THE ESOPHAGUS -- THE STOMACH -- BLOOD AND NERVE SUPPLY OF THE STOMACH -- STOMACH CONTRACTIONS -- GASTRIC MUCOSA -- GASTRIC SECRETION -- GASTRIC ABSORPTION AND EMPTYING -- CHAPTER 3 ANATOMY OF THE LOWER DIGESTIVE TRACT -- THE SMALL INTESTINE -- BLOOD AND NERVE SUPPLY OF THE SMALL INTESTINE -- CONTRACTIONS AND MOTILITY OF THE SMALL INTESTINE -- ABSORPTION IN THE SMALL INTESTINE -- SECRETIONS OF THE SMALL INTESTINE -- THE LARGE INTESTINE -- BLOOD AND NERVE SUPPLY OF THE LARGE INTESTINE -- CONTRACTIONS AND MOTILITY OF THE LARGE INTESTINE -- THE APPENDIX -- THE RECTUM -- THE ANAL CANAL -- CHAPTER 4 DIGESTIVE GLANDS AND HORMONES -- THE LIVER -- THE BILIARY TRACT -- THE GALLBLADDER -- BILE -- THE PANCREAS -- ACINAR CELLS -- ISLETS OF LANGERHANS -- HORMONES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT -- INSULIN -- GLUCAGON -- INTESTINAL GLUCAGON -- SOMATOSTATIN -- SEROTONIN -- CHOLECYSTOKININ -- GASTRIC INHIBITORY POLYPEPTIDE -- PANCREATIC POLYPEPTIDE -- SECRETIN -- VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE -- ENDORPHINS AND ENKEPHALINS -- PROSTAGLANDINS -- OTHER HORMONES OF IMPORTANCE -- CHAPTER 5 FEATURES OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT -- ROLE OF DIGESTION -- UTILIZATION OF FOOD BY THE BODY -- NUTRIENT DIGESTION -- CARBOHYDRATES -- DIETARY FIBRE -- PROTEINS -- FATS -- VITAMINS -- CALCIUM -- MAGNESIUM -- IRON -- MOVEMENT OF GAS THROUGH THE DIGESTIVE TRACT -- THE DIGESTIVE TRACT AS AN ORGAN OF IMMUNITY -- CHAPTER 6 DISEASES OF THE UPPER DIGESTIVE TRACT -- DISEASES OF THE MOUTH AND ORAL CAVITY -- PELLAGRA -- GLOSSITIS -- VINCENT GINGIVITIS -- ORAL CANCER.

DENTAL CARIES -- PHARYNGITIS -- CONGENITAL DEFECTS -- DISEASES OF THE SALIVARY GLANDS -- DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS -- CONGENITAL DEFECTS -- INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS -- STRICTURES -- DYSPHAGIA -- ESOPHAGEAL PAIN -- DISORDERS OF ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY -- GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE -- DIVERTICULA OF THE ESOPHAGUS -- ESOPHAGEAL CANCER -- DISEASES OF THE STOMACH -- INDIGESTION -- ULCERATIVE DISEASES -- GASTRITIS -- STOMACH CANCER -- CHAPTER 7 DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES -- DISEASES OF THE SMALL INTESTINE -- TRAVELER'S DIARRHEA -- INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION -- IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME -- MALABSORPTION -- CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS -- BACTERIAL INFECTIONS -- PARASITIC INFECTIONS -- APPENDICITIS -- CHRONIC INFLAMMATIONS -- CELIAC DISEASE -- TROPICAL SPRUE -- DISEASES OF THE LARGE INTESTINE -- CONSTIPATION -- MEGACOLON -- DIARRHEA -- INTESTINAL GAS -- DIVERTICULA OF THE LARGE INTESTINE -- ABSCESSES OF THE LARGE INTESTINE -- BACTERIAL INFECTIONS OF THE COLON -- INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE -- COLORECTAL CANCER -- HEMORRHOIDS -- CHAPTER 8 DISEASES OF THE LIVER AND PANCREAS -- DISEASES OF THE LIVER -- ACUTE HEPATOCELLULAR HEPATITIS -- ACUTE CANALICULAR (CHOLESTATIC) HEPATITIS -- CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITIS -- CIRRHOSIS -- HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY -- PORTAL HYPERTENSION -- ASCITES -- HEPATORENAL SYNDROME -- LIVER CANCER -- DISEASES OF THE BILIARY TRACT -- GALLSTONES -- OTHER BILIARY TRACT DISORDERS -- JAUNDICE -- DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS -- PANCREATITIS -- CHRONIC PANCREATITIS -- CYSTIC FIBROSIS -- PANCREATIC CANCER -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.