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.

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    [ *T ] k :. * food paffes from the gizard, and which may be confidered as the digefting ftomach, analogous to the ftomach in the human body. The craw in birds therefore feems com- monly to be a mere repository to feed the cavity of the gizard, like the hopper to a mill; and the gizard may be confidered as the millftones grinding the matter that is afterwards to be digefted in the digeftive ftomach. Another purpofe cavities in which the food remains for fome time are employed for, may be to foak the food thoroughly in watery fluids, that fo it may more eafily be afterwards made to undergo the proceffes of digeftion. Thefe previous cavities feem therefore to he for three purpofes : Firft, for a refer voir to retain food, which is to be afterwards ground down by the teeth ; fecondly, to ferve as a refervoir to fupply the gizards; C 4 and