108 ANATOMY FOR NURSES. [CHAP. XIV. 



digestive solvent, the gastric juice ; thirdly, the small intestine, 

 supplied with bile and pancreatic juice, and with a highly 

 specialized mucous membrane adapted to both digestive and 

 absorptive purposes; and lastly, the large intestine, having 

 feeble digestive properties, but serving to absorb all the nutri- 

 tious portion of the food still remaining, and to pass the residue 

 onwards to be finally thrown out of the body in the form of 

 feces. 



