The eclectic guide to health; or, Physiology and hygiene (1887) (14597464419)

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Title: The eclectic guide to health; or, Physiology and hygiene ..

Year: 1887 (1880s)

Authors: (Brown, Eli F.) (from old catalog)

Subjects: Physiology Hygiene

Publisher: Cincinnati, New York, Van Antwerp, Bragg & co

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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its way to allparts of the body, so that hunger is soon gratified, and thestrength of the body is increased. Such portions of the foodas are not digested in the stomach pass, little by little, asa thin grayish mass, through the pylorus into the intestine.The stomach, after a season of active labor for two or threehours, is again empty, and takes its season of rest andrepair.5 Fig. 27 gives an internal view of the stomach. 58. Intestinal Digestion.—The small intestine is along, crooked tube, hung in folds in the central portionof the abdomen.6 It leads into the large intestine, or colon,which forms the last five feet in length of the alimentary Fig. 27. Section of Stomach.—1. Cardiac orifice. 2. Folds of mucous membrane. 3. Muscular wall. 4. Pylorus. 5. Gall-bladder. 6. Duodenum. 7. Folds of mucous membrane. 8. Entrance of bileand pancreatic juice. 64 PHYSIOLOGY, canal. In Fig. 28, we see the small intestine as it is foldedinto a great mass in the central part of the abdomen, with

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-3 Fig. 28.The Intestines.—1. Beginning of Duodenum. 2. Small intestine. 3. Large intestine. 4. Rectum. the large intestine placed around it. The coats of the in-testines are the same in kind, number, and arrangement asthose of the other parts of the alimentary canal, only they aremuch thinner. These coats have numerous glands in themwhich secrete the intestinal juices. The inner coat is not DIGESTION. 65

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