PLATE 3 



EXPLANATION OF FIGURES 



8 and 9 Views of the intestines in u subject in which there was a hirge splenic 

 flexure and a transposition of the sigmoid colon to the right side of the body. In 

 figure 9 the small intestines have been removed. The body in which the conditions 

 here illustrated were found was that of a boy five and one-half years old who had 

 died of chronic Bright's disease in an institution for the feeble-minded. No other 

 marked abnormalities of development were noted. The position of the intestines 

 is shown in the figures. The mesentery of the transverse mesocolon was short. 

 The mesentery of the small intestines was attached to the body wall in essentially 

 the normal position. The descending colon was in part fused to the left side of the 

 mesentery of the small intestine. The great omentum extended downwards from 

 the greater curvature of the stomach over the transverse colon and beneath the 

 loop of the splenic flexure to the lower border of which it was attached. 



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