A treatise on the digestion of food / by G. Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and reader on the practice of physic, in London.

  • George Fordyce
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the digestion of food / by G. Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and reader on the practice of physic, in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    [ io. ] fibres, which run in a longitudinal direc- tion, that isj from the pylorus towards the upper orifice, irregularly, and with whitifh fpaces between them, as if they were ten- dinous fibres, which are irregular. This layer is connected with another layer of mufcular fibres which lies within it; but the fibres of this layer run tranfverfely, one fibre not appearing to go quite round the ftomach, but rather like fegments of circles connected with one another, with fome- thing like tendinous parts. Thofe fibres of this layer, which are in the great curva- ture, have their pole, if I may fo fpeak, at the end of the curvature, where it bulges out, and not in the cardia. The interior layer or coat is ftronger apparently than the outer. Between the external and interniJ layers, there are two other layers, of about nearly an inch in breadth, which crofs one another obliquely at the upper orifice, and are difperfed upon the fides of the ftomach ; -and on each fide at the final! extremity there is a tendinous or ligamentous band of about a third part of an inch, which terminates