Sir Evcrard Home. 



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The appendage thus alhided to by Sir Everard Home 

 is the "grand cul-de-sac," noticed by the Academie des 

 Sciences, and the " division particuhere," figured by 

 Camper. It is of sufficient dimensions to contain ten 

 gallons of water, and by means of the valve above 

 alluded to, it can be shut off from the chamber devoted 

 to the process of digestion. Professor Owen is probably 

 the first who, not from an autopsy, but from the mere 



ELEPHANT S STOMACH. 



inspection of the drawings of Camper and Ho:me, 

 ventured to assert (in lectures hitherto unpublished), 

 that the uses of this section of the elephant's stomach 

 may be analogous to those ascertained to belong to a 

 somewhat similar arrangement in the stomach of the 

 camel, one cavity of which is exclusively employed as a 



beyond may be considered as an ap- vascular." [Lectures on Comparative 



pendage similar to that of the peccary Anatojiiy, by Sir Everard Home, 



and the hog. The membrane of the Bart. 410. Lond. vol. i. p. 155. The 



cardiac portion is uniformly smooth ; figure of the elephant's stomach is given 



that of the pyloric is thicker and more in his Lectures, vol. ii. plate xviii.j 



