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intestinal lining there are minute glands — Brunner's 

 glands — whereas throughout other portions of the gut 

 Lieberkiihn's glands exist, in addition to patches of 

 lymphoid tissue — Peyer's patches and other glands, 

 all secreting fluids that play an important part in the 

 normal functions of the intestine. 



Opening into the duodenum or first portion of the 

 bowel are two ducts (minute tubes), viz., one coming 

 from the gall bladder and the other from the pancreas 

 or sweetbread, pouring into the intestine pancreatic 

 juice in the one instance and bile in the other. Now 

 both these liquids play a most important part in 

 intestinal digestion. 



The pancreatic juice saponifies fatty food, whilst 

 the bile prevents intestinal putrefaction and aids 

 the outward expulsion of faeculent matter, along 

 with other functions. The small intestine is really 

 divisible into three portions, viz. : 



The Duodenum. 

 The Jejunum. 

 The Ileum. 



Both the last named run in a convoluted manner 

 from the duodenum to the blind gut or ccBcum, i.e., 

 the commencement of the large intestine. It occupies 

 a position beneath the spine and in the right side of 

 the belly cavity. 



Following the caecum is the colony which runs into 

 the straight gut or rectum, whilst the last named ends 



