. First aid in illness and injury; . Fig. 52.—The liver seen from THE PANCREAS AND LARGE INTESTINE 75 into the blood, and (b) acts as a stimulant to the muscles of the bowel,thus producing some cathartic action. (2) It completes the digestionof certain portions of the food already absorbed into the blood, andproduces sugar, the burning of which aids in maintaining the heat ofthe body. The pancreas, which derives its name from the Greek words meaningall-flesh, is known to butchers as the belly sweetbread, in distinc-tion from the thyroid gland or throat sweetbread, and the thymusgland o
. First aid in illness and injury; . Fig. 52.—The liver seen from THE PANCREAS AND LARGE INTESTINE 75 into the blood, and (b) acts as a stimulant to the muscles of the bowel,thus producing some cathartic action. (2) It completes the digestionof certain portions of the food already absorbed into the blood, andproduces sugar, the burning of which aids in maintaining the heat ofthe body. The pancreas, which derives its name from the Greek words meaningall-flesh, is known to butchers as the belly sweetbread, in distinc-tion from the thyroid gland or throat sweetbread, and the thymusgland or breast sweetbread. It is a tongue-like mass lying across theback of the abdomen with its smaller extremity or tail on the left,is six or eight inches long, and from a half an inch to an inch its larger end passes out the pancreatic duct, which joins with thebile duct from the liverand enters the smallintestine. The pancre-atic juice completes thedigestion of the digesti-ble portions left un-touched by the otherfluids, but its chief func-tion is the divisio
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