The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-15
Interesting Information About the
Stomach.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
The human stomach is the chief organ
of digestion. 1t is ''the expansion OF
the superior end of the ailmentary canal
for the reception of food, its disiutegra-
ton and solution, and the digestion of
albuminoid matter" The average stom-
aeh when full is twelve inches long and
four inches high. It is situated ION the
left side of the body below the diaph-
ragm, behind and beneath the free RIBS.
The external layer of the stomach is a
reflection of the p~eritoneum or serious
membrane lining the abdominal cavity
the second layer is muscular and has
three separate sets of tibers-the
oblique, the longitudinal and the circu-
lar. The third coat is cellular and CON
meets the muscular coat with the inter-
nal mucous coat. The third coat con-
tains the blood-vessels which supply the
capillaries beneath the ~secreting glands
of the mucous membrane. The fourth
coat or mucous lining ofthe stomach has
glands of two kinds, the mucous glands
situated at the pyloric orifce-sshhat
where the food leaves the stomach and
enters the second stomach or duodenum
and the peptic glands situated in all
other parts than the pylor-
us and s~ecreting the gastric
juice. The main artery of the stomach
springs from the common root with the
main arteries of the liver and Of the
spleen, and also receives two branches
Of zach of them. The terminal branches
of the pnenmogastric nerve, which
gives off branches controlling the action
Of the heart and lungs, also of the wind
pipe and Gsophagus or gullet, are re-
ceIved by the stomach. BY reason Of
this sympathetic connection Of the stcm-
ach with the heart and lungs apparent
disorders Of these organs are
caused simply by functional disorders
of the stomach. What Is considered
heart disease by many people is simply
one form of indigestion, and can be
cured by eating wisely and not too well.
Difficult breathing, hoarsenes s, coughing
are often caused by imperfect digestion.
When food is taken into q healthy
stomach its presence there at once sum-
mons the blood to the stomach, and
the mucous and the peptic glands pour
| their contents into the cavity; the
spiral movement OF tho mueular
| coat begins, the three sets of
Observation-Disclosures, circular ard
| -oblique-freely pYopeI the contained
| food from side to side, unless hindered
by external compression In the shape Of
! corsets and tight Wristbands. Such or
| tons Of the food as can be assimilated
| by the stomach are absorbed and at
| once enrich the blood, while those that
| require to be naked with the bile and
| pancreatlc juice are, after being reduced
to g PUPPY MAS, permitted to pass
through the pylcrous into the duoden-
| am.
The muscular coats of the sto mach
will be of like tone with the other mus
| cular parts Of the body, One cannot
have weak muscles in their arms and
| legs and have strong muscles in their
stomachs, and the reverse Of this is
| equally true. The iaborfng man with
theWs and sinews Of steel can eat and
digest with robust enjoyment what
would give the weakling q ft of sickness.
If would have q sound and vigorous
| digestion he must have vigorous muscles.
| Hence the necessity of abundance Of
| wholesome exercise to ali who eat.
One may weaken the stomach by not
eating enough, as one may weaken 1t By
overlooking it and ~exhausting its ener-
gies. But errors in eating are far often
or than otherwise those of excess. At
tacks Of "~biIlcusneas" are almost always
the result Of injudicious and excessive
indulgence in eating, and can be cured
by abstinence for q time. One of the
! most eminent physicians Of the present