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He even inclined to the belief that the chyle has life, and he considered that food becomes “animalized” in digestion.

There remained to be ascertained the real agent for the digestion of fatty matters; that is to say, the agent in the formation of chyle out of those substances.

Thus they save much labor to the digestive organs, and accelerate the transition of meat into chyle.

The condition is well known and is called achylia gastrica, that is, failure of the stomach to manufacture chyle, the scientific term for food changed by stomach secretions.

The amount of chyle formed is very large in proportion to the quantity of food eaten.