Bite PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. 
stomach for some time, but as soon as they are dead, the 
has commenced. Though the gastric juice possesses those 
remarkable solvent properties which enable it to dissolve even 
the hardest substances, yet it has no power to act on any — 
thing that has life. Consequently worms will live in the 
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gastric juice acts on them and dissolves them. The gastric ~ 
juice has sufficient power to eat holes through the coating of _ 
the stomach ; but this is the case on) 
been some time without food. ; 
The bile is secreted by the liver, which lies in the right 
side, just between the ribs, and is the largest gland in the — 
body. It has a brown, yellowish color, is very bitter and 
- thick, and assists in the formation of chyle. The bile should 
y when the person has | 
not be in the stomach ; and this would never be the case if 7 
the stomach were always in a healthy state. When oily sub- 
stances are taken into the stomach, the gast 
elps to r mor e them, 
The pancreatic fluid flows from the 
ated behind the stomach. This organ secret 
fluid, of a yellow color, salt taste, 
the saliva. Its secretion is not i 
yet it assists in forming the chyle. The tears are secreted by 
the lachrymal gland, behind and at 
They have a salt taste, and are inodorous, 
Man has from three to three and a half pounds of brain, 
(but woman has but three and a quarter,) which can be laid 
in eight separate folds ; also twenty-four to th 
of blood, which passes through the heart once in every three 
ri ; Juice can not — 
pancreas, an organ situ- 
es a very little — 
the corner of the eyes, 
without odor, similar to % 
nereased during digestion, 
irty-two pounds — 
