On indigestion and costiveness : with hints to both sexes on the important, safe, and efficacious means of relieving diseases of the digestive organs by lavements: including directions for the selection and use of apparatuses for their administration: and the best medicinal preparations for intestinal and other injections. To which is added, observations on the mode of preserving health and prolonging life, by air, exercise, sleep, clothing, etc. Including many useful family prescriptions. The whole illustrated by coloured engravings / By Edward Jukes, Surgeon, inventor of the stomach-pump.

  • Jukes, Edward.
Date:
1831
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Credit: On indigestion and costiveness : with hints to both sexes on the important, safe, and efficacious means of relieving diseases of the digestive organs by lavements: including directions for the selection and use of apparatuses for their administration: and the best medicinal preparations for intestinal and other injections. To which is added, observations on the mode of preserving health and prolonging life, by air, exercise, sleep, clothing, etc. Including many useful family prescriptions. The whole illustrated by coloured engravings / By Edward Jukes, Surgeon, inventor of the stomach-pump. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or large intestines. Cfecum, Colon, Rectum, The colon is also described as formins: four divisions, viz. the ascending portion, trans- verse arch, descending portion, and sigmoid flexure. That portion of the small intestines called the duodenum, commences at the outlet of the stomach, named the pylorus, and is in length from nine to twelve inches. About the middle of this portion there is a small perforation, which is the opening of the ducts that lead from the liver and gall-bladder. Ibis duct, which is single at its entrance into the intestine, and is called the common bile duct, is formed of two others,—one coming directly from the liver, the other from the gall-bladder. Through them the bile passes from the liver and gall-bladder, for the pur- poses of digestion and nutrition. Another duct enters this intestine, in some cases along with the common bile duct; in others, very near to it. Ihis other duct comes from the