14/27 This keeps food or liquids from entering the air passages. If we eat or drink too fast the voice-box will not have time to close its little door and prevent our being choked. Persons have been choked to death by trying to swallow their food too fast. Do you not think this is a very wonderful door that can open and shut just when it should do so without our thinking anything about it? The Nostrils and the Soft Palate.~--The air finds its way to the lungs through the mouth or through the two openings in the nose called the _nostrils_. |