. Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools and for general reading . STOMACHS OF THE SHEEP. FIG. INTERIOR OF THE STOMACHS OF THE SHEEP. into the second stomach, the honey-comb, so called from thepeculiar network of folds in it. Here the food is rolled up intoballs by the action of the muscular fibres in this network. 6 62 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. Digestive apparatvis in birds. Different in the grain-enting and the flesh-eating. Each ball of food is passed up through the oesophagus into themouth, where it is chewed and thoroughly mixed with the saliva,in doing wh
. Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools and for general reading . STOMACHS OF THE SHEEP. FIG. INTERIOR OF THE STOMACHS OF THE SHEEP. into the second stomach, the honey-comb, so called from thepeculiar network of folds in it. Here the food is rolled up intoballs by the action of the muscular fibres in this network. 6 62 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. Digestive apparatvis in birds. Different in the grain-enting and the flesh-eating. Each ball of food is passed up through the oesophagus into themouth, where it is chewed and thoroughly mixed with the saliva,in doing which the animal seems to have great it is swallowed, and, as it passes from the oesophagus, in-stead of going into the paunch, as it did when swallowed thefirst time, it is directed through the groove seen in the Figureinto the third stomach, the manyplies. This has many folds,like the leaves of a book, so that the food is exposed to a largesurface in this cavity. It passes from this to the fourth sto-mach, the reed. Here, and here only, it is acted upon by thegastric juice. This, therefore, is the true stomach, all
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