Constipation : its theory & cure embracing the physiology of digestion and the injuries inflicted by the employment of purgatives / by John Epps.

  • Epps, John, 1805-1869.
Date:
[1854]
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Credit: Constipation : its theory & cure embracing the physiology of digestion and the injuries inflicted by the employment of purgatives / by John Epps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    23 terminate two passages from the nostrils, two from the chap. m. internal ears, one from the mouth, one from the windpipe, and one from the passage leading from the mouth to the stomach. This last passage, this food pipe, has two names, the term pharynx being ap-Pharynx, phed to the part nearest the mouth, namely, the part situated above the figure No. 10, plate 4; the term CeS0]3hagUS, (oto-oe, oisOS, food, and <pay<^, I)hag0, to (Esophagus. eat,) or the gullet, to the part represented below the figure No. 10, x^late 4, continuous from the upper part into the stomach. 70. The pharynx and the gullet are the parts con- cerned in connection with the group of changes, forming that part of the process of Digestion, to which the term Deglutition or swallowing is applied. Deglutition. 71. At the front of the neck is seen the windpipe, and at its upper part can be felt a bony-Hke run, (plate 2, figs. 13, 14,) called the os hyoides. This Oa hyoides. bony rim is connected with the base of the tongue. Below this bony rim are the chief gristles or cartil- ages, forming the commencement of the Avindpipe, called the larynx, (plate 2, fig. 15, plate 4, fig. 5,)LarjTix. the more narrowed portion of this tube being called the trachea, (plate 2, fig. 16). The trachea itself is Trachea or composed of rings, three fourths of each ring, namely '^''^^i'''' the front and the sides, consisting of gristle, the re- maining fourth, i. e., the hind portion, of fleshy sub- stance. The trachea or windpipe, strictly so called, divides into two chief tubes, called bronchi, these Bronchi, dividing into still smaller tubes, and these into still smaller, and so until at last the windpipe has, as its terminations in the lungs, air cells. Through this Air cciis. windpipe and its branchings the air is distributed