The Condition and Management of the Intestine after Abdominal Section Considered in the Light of Physiological Facts

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A KNOWLEDGE of the nervous mechanism of the intestine is important to the comprehension of some of the pheno- mena which may be induced by an abdominal section.As a preliminary to the study of these phenomena, I propose, therefore, very briefly to direct attention to certain facts connected with its nervous supply which seem to me to have a direct bearing on the condition of the intestine after it has been interfered with during an operation.The nerves of the intestine are mainly derived from the plexuses of the sympathetic which accompany the branches of the mesenteric arteries.'In the wall of the bowel these nerves terminate in two plexuses, one of which (the plexus myentericus of Auerbach) distributes its fibres to the muscular coat of the gut, while the other (Meissner's I Turner's ' Introduction to Anatomy,' pp. 711and 723.

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