A treatise of midwifery, comprehending the management of female complaints and the treatment of children in early infancy ... for the use of female and other practitioners, and private families / by Alexander Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
Date:
1785
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Credit: A treatise of midwifery, comprehending the management of female complaints and the treatment of children in early infancy ... for the use of female and other practitioners, and private families / by Alexander Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The ftomach is the great receptacle of the food; and the inteftines may be conftdered as its continuation, flnce the canal is continued, without any ftoppage or interruption, from the upper part of the throat to the fundament. The inteftines are, however, divided into fix portions, called, lft, Duodenum ; 2dly, Jeju- num ; 3dly, Ilium ; 4thly, Caecum; thly Colon; and, 6thly, RePtum, or Strait Gut. The three firft of thefe are fmall guts; the three latter, great guts. The ftomach prepares and digefts the food ; which afterwards gets into the alimentary tube, or fmall guts. The digefted mafs is further changed by the afliftance of the bile, or gall, an acrid ftimulating fluid contained in the gall- bladder, and the fluid from the pancreas or fweetbread. The* bile is fecreted from the liver; and the gall-bladder is placed in fuch a manner, that the more the ftomach is diftended with food, a greater quantity of bile is fent in- to the fmall guts. The nutritive part of the aliment, thus pre- pared and digefted, forms a white milky fluid, called Chyle, which is taken up by a great number of veflels, opening, into the guts, called Ladleals, and conveyed by them into the blood. In this manner a fupply is furnifhed proportioned to the wafte continually going on by the adtion of the body and the common diicharges. The lower part of the belly is called the Pel- vis. The female Pelvis is an irregular cavity, (furrounded with bone, and covered with fofc B 3 parts.