. Homoeopathic domestic physician [electronic resource]: containing the treatment of diseases; popular explanation of anatomy, physiology, hygiene and hydropathy; a treatise on domestic surgery, and an abridged materia medica. which ramifythrough its structure. Its functions are: to protect the intes-tines from cold, and to facilitate their movements. The whole digestive apparatus is supplied with arteries,veins, lymphatics, and nerves ; the latter chiefly from theganglionic system. (See this.) One of the most wonderful processes in the animal econ-omy is that of the assimilation of food. Duri
. Homoeopathic domestic physician [electronic resource]: containing the treatment of diseases; popular explanation of anatomy, physiology, hygiene and hydropathy; a treatise on domestic surgery, and an abridged materia medica. which ramifythrough its structure. Its functions are: to protect the intes-tines from cold, and to facilitate their movements. The whole digestive apparatus is supplied with arteries,veins, lymphatics, and nerves ; the latter chiefly from theganglionic system. (See this.) One of the most wonderful processes in the animal econ-omy is that of the assimilation of food. During its mastication (chewing) a considerable quantityof saliva (spittle) is mixed with it, the object of which is, tosoften and moisten the food, preparing it for easy it reaches the stomach, it is subjected to the powerfulaction of the so-called stomach-juice (gastric juice), which issecreted by the glands, immediately located in the substanceof the stomach. Beside, it is constantly in motion by the ac-tion of the muscles of the stomach, which brings the food intocontact with the mucous membrane, and thus it becomescompletely saturated with gastric juice, and at length dis- 572 ANATOMY AND solved into a pulpy,homogeneous mass ofa creamy consistence,called chyme, whichpasses, as fast as it is,92 made, through the py-lorus into the duode-num. Fig. 9. An ideal viewofthe organs of digestion. 1,The upper jaw ; 2, the low-er jaw ; 3, the tongue ; 4,the roof of the mouth; 5,the oesophagus; 6, thetrachea; 7, the parotidgland ; 8, the sublingualgland; 9, the stomach ;10, the liver; 11, the gall-cyst ; 12, the duct thatconveys the bile to theduodenum 13, 13, 14,the pancreas ; A, A, theduodenum ; C, the junc-tion of the small intestinewith the colon ; D, the ap-pendix vermiformis; E,the ccecum ; F, the ascend-ing colon; G, the trans-verse colon; H, the de-scending colon ; I, the sig-moid flexure of the colon ;J, the rectum. In the duodenum,the bile and pancre
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