Observations upon the mammalian pharynx, with especial reference to the epiglottis / by R.L. Bowles.

  • Bowles, Robert L. (Robert Leamon), 1834-1913.
Date:
[1889?]
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Credit: Observations upon the mammalian pharynx, with especial reference to the epiglottis / by R.L. Bowles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    OBSERVATIONS UPON THE MAMMALIAN PHARYNX, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE EPI- GLOTTIS.1 By R. L. Bowles, M.D., F.R.C.P. Lond., Consulting Physician, Folkestone Hospital. The following communication embodies some notes and experi- mental observations incident upon my investigations upon stertor in animals. The figures which I give will be found to illustrate, in part, facts long recorded; but, as no good drawings of so familiar an object as the Pig's epiglottis have hitherto been published, I supply the want, in the hope that the figures proffered may be of service to workers in general. Fig. L—Narial pharynx of eighteen-months' Pig, with epiglottis in sihc; front view, nat. size, a, arytamoid ; c.b., buccal cavity ; d.v'., orifice of diverti- culum retro-pharyngeum ; e., epiglottis ; p.h., cut edge of junction between hard and soft palates; p.p., posterior pillar of soft palate; t., tongue; u., uvula ; v., velum. Comparative anatomists have long ago shown2 that the characters and relationships of the velum palatinum and epi- 1 Read before the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, March 1889. 2 See papers by Howes, this vol. p. 263, &c.