New views of the process of defecation, and their application to the pathology and treatment of diseases of the stomach, bowels, and other organs : together with an analytical correction of Sir Charles Bell's views respecting the nerves of the face / James O'Beirne.

Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: New views of the process of defecation, and their application to the pathology and treatment of diseases of the stomach, bowels, and other organs : together with an analytical correction of Sir Charles Bell's views respecting the nerves of the face / James O'Beirne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    NEW VIEWS OF THE PROCESS OF DEFECATION, &c. &c. Observing, first, that the fibres which compose the muscular coat of the caecum and colon are so much paler, thinner, and more disgregated than those which compose the muscular coat of the small intestines, and that numerous cells are formed within the csecura and colon by means of the longitudinal bands : secondly, that the caecum is abruptly enlarged to a much greater size than either the ileum or the ascending colon; that it receives but a partial coat from the perito- neum, for the purpose of favouring its distension, and that it is placed rather above the right os ilium in order to afford firm support to the matter which may be accumulated within it: thirdly, that the ascending colon takes a long course directly against gravity ; that the transverse arcli of the colon takes nearly as unfavourable a course, and that both the ascending and descending por- tions of the colon are so situated, that, compared with the small intestines, they receive but little B