The Throat And Its Functions In Swallowing Breathing And The Production Of The Voice PDF Download

Excerpt from The Throat and Its Functions in Swallowing, Breathing and the Production of the Voice What I have to say, falls therefore, under the three heads, swallowing, breathing, and phonation. I. Swallowing. During health, swallowing is performed so quickly and so easily, that it seems a very simple process; you bring a morsel of appropriate food or a drink under your nose, your jaws move apart, your mouth receives it, a little muscular action follows, - and it has gone on its way to the stomach. Perhaps you experience a good deal of pleasure in the process, if your appetite be good and the morsel delicious; but you would hardly believe that the act of swallowing is exceedingly complicated, that its investigation has engaged the patient research of a large number of physiologists for more than 100 years, and that the mystery of its mechanism has been solved, and the process thoroughly understood only within the last ten or fifteen years. The parts of the body specially engaged in swallowing are: the back of the tongue, the soft palate, the fauces, the larynx, the pharynx and the œsophagus or gullet. I should be very sorry to inflict tedious anatomical details upon you, but I must make you a little acquainted with these parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.