The American practice condensed, or The family physician : being the scientific system of medicine ... . 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 m
The American practice condensed, or The family physician : being the scientific system of medicine ... . 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 to its character, from his attempts in ana-JJSng* if; and he had senta portion of it to one of the most learned and 750 OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. skilful chemists of Europe, but he w able to throw ^W^g^gthe subheet. But this Professor S. said he ^J*1 * W£ o ;.with alcohol, and that they were, in their nature and attributes,.totalljdiverse, and possessed counteracting qualities. Fig. 10. The Internal H, The heart. R L, Right lung. L L, Left lung. D D, Diaphragm, which separatesthe chest from the bowels. Lv. Liver. St™. Stomach. G, Gall-bladder. 111, Intestines VI.—THE INTESTINES. Bv the intestines is meant the whole of the alimentary canal below thestomach. They are divided into small and large. The small are subdividedinto the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum ; the large into the ccecum,the colon, and the rectum. They are coiled up, or lay in folds in the abdo-men, and extend about thirty feet in length. How can all this extent becleansed of morbid matter by pukes and injections ? The coats ofthem are similar to those of the stomach. The muscular coats contain longitudinal and circular fibres, which, by their•contraction and relaxation, produce the. vermicular or peristaltic motion, com-pared to the creeping of a worm. These serve to propel the contents of theintestin
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