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| Alphabetical [« »] follow 1 following 2 follows 1 food 23 food-is 1 foolish 1 footless 3 | Frequency [« »] 23 account 23 cold 23 fire 23 food 23 soul 23 while 22 mouth | Aristotle On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing IntraText - Concordances food |
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1 1 | regions. That part where food enters we call upper, considering 2 1 | which they take in their food, whether the source of supply 3 2 | parts, one that by which food is taken in, one that by 4 2 | others for receiving their food; or again they may be destitute 5 6 | surrounding air supply. For the food has a cooling effect [as 6 6 | whereas abstinence from food produces heat and thirst. 7 6 | hot, but by the entry of food a motion is set up which 8 9 | suffocation? It is not want of food that produces this effect 9 12| that it is a product of the food. A consequence also of this 10 14| intermediate between that where food enters and that where excrement 11 17| employed both in working up the food and in the passage of the 12 17| employed in working up the food, while in those of them 13 17| refrigeration. But to prevent their food from impeding these operations 14 17| respiration they do not take in food, for otherwise suffocation 15 17| suffocation results owing to the food, whether liquid or dry, 16 17| oesophagus, through which food passes into what is called 17 17| windpipe when swallowing their food; the former close down the 18 17| the epiglottis. When the food has passed, the epiglottis 19 17| through them and then the food passes in through the mouth; 20 17| and the seizing of their food is rapid, and their teeth 21 17| debarred from chewing their food.~ 22 18| simultaneously with the food. Thus crustaceans, like 23 26| the fluid, of which the food furnishes a constant supply.