The Water-cure journal, and herald of reforms, devoted to physiology, hydropathy and the laws of life . WINDPIPE. WINDPIPE. to Figs. 2 and 3. In the first, a shows the narrowopening of the upper part of the windpipe, theglottis, the epiglottis b being raised to allow ofthe inspiration of air. But when we swallow, theepiglottis, b, Fig. 3, is closed, and the oesophagusdarts up to receive the portion of food that is sentinto the back part of the mouth for the purposeof being swallowed. Now, when so large a pieceof meat as the one described gets into the throat,it can neither pass down the oesoph
The Water-cure journal, and herald of reforms, devoted to physiology, hydropathy and the laws of life . WINDPIPE. WINDPIPE. to Figs. 2 and 3. In the first, a shows the narrowopening of the upper part of the windpipe, theglottis, the epiglottis b being raised to allow ofthe inspiration of air. But when we swallow, theepiglottis, b, Fig. 3, is closed, and the oesophagusdarts up to receive the portion of food that is sentinto the back part of the mouth for the purposeof being swallowed. Now, when so large a pieceof meat as the one described gets into the throat,it can neither pass down the oesophagus, nor canthe person breathe, because it forces the epiglottisdown upon the glottis, and thus strangles him forwant of air. The explanation will also serve to show in whatmanner substances sometimes get the wrongway into the throat. Every one knows the sen-sation that follows the ingress of a drop of water,saliva, morsel of food, and the like, when itpasses into the windpipe. If the substance is asmall one, it does no harm generally ; but child-ren sometimes, when laughing at play, and perhapsol
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