. Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools, and for general reading. somewhat separated fromeach other, instead of being as closely packed, as they are in theabdomen. The large end of the stomach, you see, lies to theleft side,* and at this end is the spleen. The pancreas is be-hind the right end of the stomach. Above the stomach, andmostly to the right side, is the largest organ in the abdomen,the liver. It is represented as turned upward in the stomach is directly connected with the small intestines atthe pylorus. At the end of this long and windi
. Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools, and for general reading. somewhat separated fromeach other, instead of being as closely packed, as they are in theabdomen. The large end of the stomach, you see, lies to theleft side,* and at this end is the spleen. The pancreas is be-hind the right end of the stomach. Above the stomach, andmostly to the right side, is the largest organ in the abdomen,the liver. It is represented as turned upward in the stomach is directly connected with the small intestines atthe pylorus. At the end of this long and winding tract beginthe large intestines. The duct of the gall bladder, and that ofthe pancreas, empty their contents into the small intestine at itsbeginning. The office of the spleen has not yet been ascer-tained. Neither has that of the worm-like appendage at tha * As this is a front view, the right side of the Figure is the left side of the body. 56 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. Arrangement of the digestive organs. FIG. 15. GALL BLADDER. LARGE INTES-TINES. BEGINNING OFLARGE IN-TESTINES. WORM-LIKE LARGE INTES-TINES. SMALL INTES-TINES. SMALL INTESTINES. DIGESTIVE ORGANS. beginning of the large intestines. The omentum, or caul,which hangs like a curtain from the front part of the sto-mach down in front of the intestines, is not represented in theFigure. 90. There is one arrangement in the abdomen which mustnot pass unnoticed. If the intestines were left to lie loose inthis cavity, they would constantly be subject to disolacementand injury. They are therefore fastened to the backbone byan arrangement, which secures them from any such accident,and at the same time allows of a sufficiently free motion of differ- digest roN. 57 The arrangement of the mesentery. Its offices.
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