The outlines of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene. Being an edition of The essentials of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, rev. to conform to the legislation making the effects of alcohol and other (14596856180)

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Title: The outlines of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene. Being an edition of The essentials of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, rev. to conform to the legislation making the effects of alcohol and other narcotics upon the human system a mandatory study in public schools

Year: 1889 (1880s)

Authors: Tracy, Roger Sherman, 1841-1926

Subjects: Human anatomy Physiology Hygiene Anatomy Physiology Hygiene

Publisher: New York, American Book Co

Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries

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Fig. 27.—Junction of the smalland large intestines, and theappendix vermiformis. Thelarge intestine / here called theLLeciiin) is cut away so as toshow the internal openings. 98 ORGANS OF REPAIR. slow passage of the food from the stomach throughthe small intestine to the large one, it is mingledwith various fluids which complete the process ofdigestion, and the nutritious portions of the massare absorbed and carried away by the blood andother vessels. 129. The Duodenum. — The first eight or teninches of the small intestine are somewhat largerthan the remainder, and are called the duodenum,because its length is about twelve fingers breadth.Into this duodenum empty small canals from twovery important organs, viz., the pancreas and theliver. 130. The Pancreas. — The pancreas (Fig. 28),

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Fig. 28.—The pancreas, partly cut away, so as to show the duct, whichcollects the pancreatic juice, and empties it into the duodenum. which we call the sweet-bread when we cook it forfood,^ is about six inches long, is shaped somewhat * There are three kinds of sweat-breads, viz. : the thyroid-gland,or throat sweet-bread, which is tough, almost like India-rubber; thepancreas, or belly sweet-bread, which is more tender, and is quite com-monly used ; and the thymus-gland, or breast sweet-bread, which,exists only in young animals, wasting away as they grow up. Thisgland is situated just behind the upper portion of the breastbone, at-tains its greatest size in human beings at the age of two years, anddisappears before the sixteenth year. Its use is not known. This INTESTINAL DIGESTION. 99 like a pistol, and is situated behind the stomach,with the large end, or the breech of the pistol,toward the right. It secretes a fluid, called thepancreatic juice, which has been shown to be thechief

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