Human physiology . l these processes areimproved and gradually approximate to the normal, by a processof compensation as to the nature of which we are ignorant. Atthe end of February 1900 ( more than 2 years after theoperation) this patient was reported by the surgeon to be well, and IS-1 PHYSIOLOGY CHAP. illiln to take nourishment of all kinds in frequent, though notabundant meals. I X. While the stomach is, in virtue of its glands, a digestingorgan, it is from its muscular coats an organ of special movements,which serve in the first place to churn up the iugesta and bringthem into contac
Human physiology . l these processes areimproved and gradually approximate to the normal, by a processof compensation as to the nature of which we are ignorant. Atthe end of February 1900 ( more than 2 years after theoperation) this patient was reported by the surgeon to be well, and IS-1 PHYSIOLOGY CHAP. illiln to take nourishment of all kinds in frequent, though notabundant meals. I X. While the stomach is, in virtue of its glands, a digestingorgan, it is from its muscular coats an organ of special movements,which serve in the first place to churn up the iugesta and bringthem into contact with the gastric juice, and in the second place,to propel the semi-digested chyme onwards into the duodenum. Beneath the external serous coat the stomach has threelayers of plain muscul ir tissue. These are (from the direction oftheir fibres) the longitudinal (outer), the circular (middle), andthe oblique (inner). The longitudinal fibres are directly con-tinuous with those of the oesophagus; they radiate from the.
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