DEGLUTITION-DIGESTIVE APPARATUS. 
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danger, since it shows that not the brain alone, but the upper 
part of the spinal cord, is suffering from the pressure; and 
that the movements of respiration, which depend upon a 
similar action of the nervous system (§ 340), will probably 
soon cease, so that death must ensue. 
Digestive Apparatus. 
197. The food, thus propelled downwards by the action of 
the muscles of the pharynx and of the oesophagus (gullet), 
Large Intestine- 
Spleen 
— Colon 
Small Intestine 
-- Colon 
Small Intestine Rectum 
Fig. 108.— Digestive Apparatus or Man. 
arrives, in Man and the Mammalia, at the stomach ; which is 
a large membranous bag, placed across the upper part of the 
