Eat, drink and be merry. And thank your epiglottis, themarvelous flap of cartilage in your throat that makes the first twoacts possible. Make that all three: If you couldn’t eat or drink,you wouldn’t ...

FROM an anthropotomical point of view the epiglottis had for a long time been generally looked upon as a kind of sentinel for the protection of the upper air-passages, when Rückert's comparative ...