Manual of directions for the employment of injections in various diseases : with remarks upon the nature and treatment of habitual constipation : preceded by a treatise on the intestinal canal, its structure, functions, etc., with a description of the digestive process . ermed a secondary stomach. The biliaryand pancreatic ducts, the latter of which is seen atW, perforate it three or four inches from the pylorus, Explanation of Plate 171. See opposite page. A. Its cardiac or upper orifice, 0. Its pyloric or intestinalorifice. D. and R. Lesser and greater curvatures of the Sto-mach.


Manual of directions for the employment of injections in various diseases : with remarks upon the nature and treatment of habitual constipation : preceded by a treatise on the intestinal canal, its structure, functions, etc., with a description of the digestive process . ermed a secondary stomach. The biliaryand pancreatic ducts, the latter of which is seen atW, perforate it three or four inches from the pylorus, Explanation of Plate 171. See opposite page. A. Its cardiac or upper orifice, 0. Its pyloric or intestinalorifice. D. and R. Lesser and greater curvatures of the Sto-mach. F. Duodenum. G. Commencement of the II. Continuation of the jejunum. /, I. Ilium. J. Ter-mination of the ilium in the ccecum. K. Ccecum. L. Ap-pendix cceci. M. Ascending colon. jV. Transverse or hori-zontal colon. 0, Descending colon. P. Sigmoid flexure ofthe colon. Q. Rectum, widening as it descends, and forminga pouch at X. It. Anus or fundament. S. Gall-Madder. duct. U. Common hepatic duct, formed by the rightand left hepatic ducts, proceeding from the liver. V. Ductalcommunis cholcdochus or common duct, passing behind theduodenum, in which it terminates. W. Pancreatic duct, alsoterminating in the duodenum. X. Pouch of the rectum. Plate GALL-BLADDER, STOMACH, AND INTESTINES. For explanation of Plate, see opposite page; also Stomach, p. 22,nnd Intestines, p. 23. ITS STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, ETC. 27 and through these ducts it receives the bile andpancreatic juice. 41. The jejunum, H, H, is continuous with theduodenum, and is first seen at G, as it passes downbehind the transverse colon. It is thus named be-cause it is usually found empty. Its length is elevenor twelve feet, 42. The ilium, I, I, comprises the remaining threefifths of the small intestines, and consequently isseventeen or eighteen feet long. Its name is signifi-cant of its numerous windings or convolutions. It issmaller in size than the jejunum, but there is nothingto indicate the terminatio


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