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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    l pharynx and esophagus express nothing more than the office of a muscular inverted cone and its tube for conveying aliment from the mouth into the stomach. They were conjointly named in- fundibulum by the Latins, as expressive of the common figure ; and in English the gullet, from the Latin gula, which term seems to have been * applied exclusively to this apparatus. The esophagus, as well as every other tube-like apparatus of the alimentary canal, is formed of dif- ferent coats, which are specifically distinguished. The external coat, consisting of cellular tissue, serves to connect it with all the adjoining parts. Next to this is a series of muscular fibres run- ning longitudinally, which, according to their di- rection, are capable of contracting and elonga- ting the passage in the course of deglutition ; while another orbicular series, placed transversely within these, furnishes the means of contracting its diameter. It is from the irritation communicated by solid matters of food which have not been properly masticated, that these muscular fibres are caused