When in suspended animation we endeavour to inflate the lungs through the nose or mouth, we should press the larynx, 10, 11,12, backwards against the vertebral column, so as to close the Oesophageal tube.
"Surgical Anatomy"
Joseph Maclise
Its nervous system comprises eleven ganglia, not counting the Oesophageal collar, whereas in the perfect insect there are only seven: three for the thorax, of which the last two are contiguous, and four for the abdomen.
"The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles"
Jean Henri Fabre