a Male and a Female Dromedary. § 



ft 

 well defined, but not at all raised. In the male, just below 



the dilatation of the duodenum, were numerous and similar 

 patches, from two to three hues in diameter, and arranged in 

 parallel rows. In all of these the openings of the follicles 

 were large. Within the last fifteen inches of the intestine, 

 in the female, were also six patches, situated in a straight 

 line, and opposite the mesentery, generally from half an inch 

 to one inch in diameter, of a circular form, and well de- 

 fined ; the smallest were two or three lines only, som^ were 

 oval, and one measured one and a quarter inches by half 

 an inch. These appeared, at first sight, like decided ulcer- 

 ations, being surrounded for the most part by a sharp and 

 raised edge, which, beginning almost imperceptibly, became 

 gradually wider, until at last it was expanded into a proper 

 membrane, partially overhanging the surface of the patch, 

 but not connected with it except at its circumference. The 

 width of this membrane varied in the different patches, the 

 greatest being six lines ; it was soft, smooth, rather thick, 

 apparently organized and continuous with the surrounding 

 mucous membrane. The surface itself of these patches 

 seemed healthy, the follicles of which they were composed 

 being quite distinct, and as much so where they were cov- 

 ered by the membrane as where they were not. In the 

 male, the patches at the lower end of the intestine had a sim- 

 ilar appearance, but were less carefully noted. The small 

 patches in the upper part of neither the male nor female 

 intestine showed any trace of the peculiar membrane above 

 described. 



Large Intestine sixty two and a half feet long in the male, 

 and fifty and a half in the female ; length of caecum in each, 

 twenty inches. Being cut open throughout, the dimensions 

 and general structure in each was about the same. In the 

 male the measurements transversely were as follows : in the 

 coecum from eight to ten inches ; for the first eight feet 

 (from the coecal valve,) six to nine inches ; it then dimin- 

 ished to two or three inches and so continued for the next 

 eighteen or twenty feet, the convolutions at this part being 

 closely connected and embedded in fat ; it afterwards increas- 



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