The American vegetable practice, or a new and improved guide to health, designed for the use of families : in six parts / by Morris Mattson.

  • Mattson, M. (Morris), 1809?-1885.
Date:
1841
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Credit: The American vegetable practice, or a new and improved guide to health, designed for the use of families : in six parts / by Morris Mattson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    inal cavity, stretching from left to right, and is shaped somewhat like the bag of a bag-pipe, as is indicated by the accompanying figure. Moderately distended, it is capable, in the adult male, of Fig. 2. External View of the Stomach. a, cardiac or upper orifice ; b, pyloric or intestinal orifice, at which the duo- denum commences ; c, c, c, lesser curvature or arch of the stomach ; e, e, e, greater curvature or arch of the stomach ; g, g, omentum or caul. holding about three pints. Its left extremity, which is much larger than the right, is situated under the ribs on the left side, where it is in contact with the diaphragm ; its right extremity ex- tends a little beyond the sternum or breast bone, in the direction of the right side, and is covered by the shelving edge of the left lobe of the liver, which is interposed between it and the diaphragm. The left extremity of the stomach is connected with the spleen, and its lower or inferior portion with the omentum, which is spread over the intestines like an apron. The stomach is separa- ted from the small intestines by the arch of the colon, which passes immediately below it from the right to the left side