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in front of the left kidney to the great curvature of the stomach, and 
bends over to the right side in front of the epiploon, and descending 
describes a large spiral curve, then a second, third and fourth, pro- 
gressively diminishing im extent; the last and innermost is folded 
upon itself, and repeats two spiral coils in the opposite direction, 
the extent of these increasing; and the gut, quitting the mass of 
closely connected coils, passes backwards, and bends round the root 
of the mesentery, adhering to that part and to the pancreas above, 
then descends in front of the duodenum, much diminished in size, 
and getting to the back of the lumbar region becomes the rectum, 
and is continued, tightly bound to the sacrum, behind the genital 
organs and bladder to the vent. The coils of the colon, which are 
the first viscera that present themselves, and conceal almost all the 
others in the abdomen, are attached to one another by bands of meso- 
colon of about an inch in breadth ; and these were laden with lobes 
of fat. There were many small, dark-coloured glands at the root of 
the mesocolon, from which straight blood-vessels radiated in groups 
of from four to eight or ten. The colon, where it forms the first 
series of coils, is 10 inches in circumference, and is slightly sacculated 
on two longitudinal bands. The sacculi subside with a slight dimi- 
nution of diameter in the returning coils. 
The length of the ‘large intestines’ was 13 feet 6 inches, or nearly 
four times the length of the entire animal. 
The mucous membrane of the small intestines is produced in the 
duodenum into four or five narrow longitudinal folds, which in the 
jeyunum are six or seven in number, and are here or there connected 
together by oblique folds. Towards the middle of the jejunum these 
folds disappear, and then reappear at intervals progressively increa- 
sing ; and in the ilium the mucous lining is even and simply villous. 
In the partial or interrupted extents of the plicated structure, the 
rugze are more reticulate in their arrangement. The lining membrane 
of the colon was smooth and even, but gorged with blood, and varied 
in many parts from a deep vinous to an almost black colour. The 
lining membrane of the rectum was disposed in numerous fine longi- 
tudinal rugee. The small intestines contained only mucus; the large 
intestines a dark fluid matter of the usual fecal odour, with one or 
two masses of hard feces, about the size and shape of a pullet’s egg. 
The liver weighed 2 lbs. 4 0z. i tconsisted of three principal lobes, 
viz. a right, middle and left ; the right is the largest, and is partially 
subdivided at its free extremity, which is closely connected with the 
right supra-renal body and the summit of the right kidney. The 
middle lobe is bifid, a gall-bladder 4 inches long by 14 inch broad 
being lodged in the cleft; a small ‘lobulus Spigelii’ projects near 
the neck of the gall-bladder. The left lobe of the liver terminates 
on the left side, about 3 inches from the cardiac end of the stomach. 
The hepatic duct joins the cystic after a course of an inch; the 
‘ductus communis’ is about the same length, and has a width of 
3 lines at its termination, which is at the upper part of the beginning 
of the duodenum. 
The pancreas is a long flattened band, from an inch to an inch 
