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"Gluttony"
by the artist Erte
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Educational model from Health Edco
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Alimentary canal sculpture, clay. (artist unknown)
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Image credit: The Body Atlas illustrated
by Mike Saunders, Oxford U. Press, 1991
The above modern image of the alimentary
canal as a busy shipping waterway aptly illustrates a 16th
century insight on the digestive system.
In the age of Christopher Columbus descriptions of the
intestines borrowed from the world of commerce and exploration.
Andreas de Laguna observed in 1535, "Indeed the intestines
are rightly called ships since they carry the chyle and
all the excrement through the entire region of the stomach
as if through the Ocean Sea." He aptly compared them
to "those tall ships which as soon as they have crossed
the ocean come to Rouen with their cargoes on their way
to Paris but transfer their cargoes at Rouen into small
boats for the last stage of the journey up the Seine.
---Read more about the history of the stomach and intestines
here.
The
Alimentary Canal Cruise drawing was done by Kathryn
Chorney, illustrator for the anatomy songs featured in Healthy
Habits. You can reach her at kchorney@utoronto.ca.
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Illustrating the common expression: "...to
spill one's guts..."
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"Digestion"
sculpture by Charley Friedman
Close-up of the sculpture above.
Fernbank Museum of Natural History's "Grossology"
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Image credits (from left):
Digestive
System path; Vesalius
anatomy lesson;
woman with her alimentary canal ; The
Food Museum collection;
The Quest to Digest
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