Chapter Two

The Construction of the body - pt/1
The Body has three main divisions, namely, the head, the trunk, the upper and lower limbs. In the trunk there is a large cavity wherein are almost all of the important organs.


This cavity is divided into an upper  and a power potion  by thin by a thin wall called the diaphragm. The upper potion is called the chest. Within it are the heart and lungs, and in the back part of it are  the trachea and gullet, or cesophagus.

The cavity below the diaphragm is called the abdominal cavity. Within it are the liver, the stmoach, the spleen, the pancreas, the samll and the large intestines. The kidneys are suituated just outside it, at the back.





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