Some observations on the duodenum, or second stomach ... / extracted from the Gulstonian Lectures ... May 1817.

  • Yeats, G. D. (Grant David), 1773-1836.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Some observations on the duodenum, or second stomach ... / extracted from the Gulstonian Lectures ... May 1817. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I TRANSACTIONS. 7 the duodenum being properly mixed and digested in this bend, and the chyle prepared by a process with which we are totally unacquainted, are propelled through its ascending part into the jejunum which begins where the duodenum makes its exit from the ring in the mesentery ; (H. Plate 1.) During the transmission of these contents a considerable absorp¬ tion takes place, for this intestine is thick set with lacteals; and this ab¬ sorption occurs before the complete formation of the chyle, for turgid lacteals have been seen passing in great numbers from its commence¬ ment in its course under the liver Thus then the duodenum is an organ of considerable importance in its func¬ tions, and that the Divine Author of our Being intended it for pre-eminent 1 * I have seen the lacteals full of white chyle in the very beginning of the duodenum, and through its whole length. Cruikshank’s Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels, page 149. uses