Physiological views of the structure, functions, and disorders of the stomach and alimentary organs of the human body : : with observations on the qualities and effects of food and fermented liquors, and on the influence of climate and local station / By Thomas Hare.

  • Hare, Thomas.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Physiological views of the structure, functions, and disorders of the stomach and alimentary organs of the human body : : with observations on the qualities and effects of food and fermented liquors, and on the influence of climate and local station / By Thomas Hare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    CHAPTER III. OF THE THROAT AND ORGANS OF DEGLUTI- TION OF THE DIAPHRAGM. Besides the depending arch of the palate, al- ready described, with which the uvula is consi- derably incorporated, and which by its central station gives origin to the figure of two secondary arches, another arrangement of the same figure, and constituted like the foremost of a double mem- brane with a few muscular fibres, sinks back from the uvula in a vault-like manner, to be connected with the pharynx. Between these anterior and posterior arches, are situated those mucous glands commonly known as the tonsils, and vulgarly as the “ almonds of the earsan appellation which may be accounted for, in the deafness that fre- quently results from an enlargement of them, whereby they exert a mechanical compression on the apparatus connected with the internal organ of hearing.