STUDIES ON THE INTESTINAL MUSCLE OF MAN

Abstract

A study has been made of the rhythmic contractions which appeared in excised strips of human bowel. The rates were slower than those observed in living men and women; they varied from time to time, and there was little sign of a gradient from duodenum to ileum. There were signs, however, of a gradient in the tendency to contract rhythmically, with the duodenum first and the colon last.