The American practice condensed, or The family physician : being the scientific system of medicine ... . ice, and the outlet iscalled the pyloric, which closes and prevents the entrance of improper articlesinto the intestines. It is supplied with numerous glands, bloodvessels, andnerves. It has three coats : the external is the peritoneal, the second is themuscular, and the third and inner coat is the mucous or villous, which containsnumerous absorbing and exhaling vessels, which secrete the fluids in sympathy of the stomach with other organs renders it one of the mostimportant p
The American practice condensed, or The family physician : being the scientific system of medicine ... . ice, and the outlet iscalled the pyloric, which closes and prevents the entrance of improper articlesinto the intestines. It is supplied with numerous glands, bloodvessels, andnerves. It has three coats : the external is the peritoneal, the second is themuscular, and the third and inner coat is the mucous or villous, which containsnumerous absorbing and exhaling vessels, which secrete the fluids in sympathy of the stomach with other organs renders it one of the mostimportant parts of the body ; it is the great centre of sympathy. Thegreat sympathetic nerve leads from the brain to the stomach, which affect*so many contiguous portions of the system when it is disordered. Thestomach and liver are the two great sources or inlets of disease; as fever,indigestion, bowel complaints, &c. It is owing to this connexion withneighbouring parts that the majority of medicines are first applied to thestomach, and which benefit by their sympathetic action. Fig. 9. The Human C Cardiac orifice or entrance. P, The pyloric orifice, or opening into the S, Smaller arch or curvature. G G G, The great arch or curvature. Gastric Juice.—When food is taken into the stomach the exhalentarteries secrete a fluid called gastric juice, which acts upon the food andreduces it to a pulpy mass. Of its nature and qualities we know but little. Professor Silliman, in a lecture, stated that the gastric juice, which is thejrreat a^ent of digestion, would pour into the stomach when any lood orother substance was placed there. This juice, he said, was easily takenfrom the stomach ; he had a bottle of it. The liquid was, at that time,atLrently as pure as it was ten years ago ; it had the peculiar propertyofseS eservation, or of resisting putrefaction. It would, if warmed olod heTt dissolve meat in a wine glass. He said behrinero come tanv satisfactory conclusions, as
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