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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    The diaphragm is the largest and most important muscle which falls within the province of our pre- sent considerations, and no muscle of the whole frame is better calculated to exemplify the charac- ter of muscular and tendinous fibres in general. Fibres, however, which in the general appear- ance of an aggregate, constitute all the great in- dividual muscles of the animal frame, are them- selves of compound structure, an examination of which will tend greatly to illustrate their parti- cular qualities of contraction and relaxation, a circumstance necessary to account for the con- tractibility and convolutions of the stomach and intestines. Those fibres, by the general direction of which each particular muscle is characterised, and which divide of themselves, according to their longitudi- nal arrangement, I would venture to call compound fibres, in contradistinction to the secondary or ultimate fibres of which they are composed, and on the particular nature of which their mechani- cal qualities depend ; for, if the structure of what is commonly called a muscular fibre were of a