JUICE

The peculiar fluid secreted by the Stomach, and e ential to the proce of digestion. When collected from the stomach of an animal killed while fasting,it is transparent and saline, but during digestion it is distinctly acid; and Dr. Prout found that the free acid which it contains is the muriatic. One of the most characteristic properties of the gastric juice is its solvent power over the varieties of animal fibre, or albumen, and the facility with which it coagulates milk, and then disolves the coagulum See Digestion. [s. 504]