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Title: The itinerary of a breakfast; a popular account of the travels of a breakfast through the food tube and of the ten gates and several stations through which it passes, also of the obstacles which it sometimes meets
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943
Subjects: Constipation Auto-intoxication Digestion
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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wn in the mouth.A minute particle, as a seed or flake of bran,will keep the tongue busy until it has beendislodged and disposed of. A very smallparticle lodged far back in the throat will pro-duce gagging, coughing or other expulsive ef-forts until swallowed or rejected. This same sensitiveness to contacts existsall the way along the food tube from entranceto exit, although after the food is swallowed,we are not, when in health, conscious of theautomatic efforts by which they are movedalong. When the tube contents are bulky, dis-tending or stretching its muscular walls, thesecontraction waves, so-called peristaltic waves,are vigorous and may even become painfullyviolent as in colic. When no food has beentaken for twelve hours or more, the intestineis inactive. During fasting there is practicallyno intestinal activity. The eminent English anatomist Keith hasshown that the movements of the stomachand intestines are controlled by a mechanismmuch the same as that which controls the heart.
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DIAGRAM OF FOOD TUBE Showing the Ten Gates which control the movement of foodalong the canal. 1, Mouth; 2, Fauces; 3, Entrance to CEsoph-agus; 4, Cardiac Orifice of Stomach; 5, Pylorus; 6, IleocecalSphincter; 7, Ileocecal Valve ; 8, Keiths Node, seat of reverseperistalsis; 9, Pelvic Colon; 10, Anus. THE FOOD TUBE 11 His Serpent The intestinal movements are, moreover, di-rected with such evident purpose and precisionas almost to suggest that the food tube is anindependent and intelligent creature, possess-ing its own brain and will and ever perform-ing its functions as a faithful body-servant. The movements of the intestine are somuch like those which one sees executed by amoving snake, that a noted writer verynaturally referred to his food tube as hisserpent, and certain movements of the colonare referred to in medical literature as snake-like movements. When the nerves of an arm, a leg, or al-most any other organ of the body, are sev-ered, so that connection with the brain orspinal citineraryofbre00kell

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