Plate XI. — First Dissection of RXbbit.' ' ' \Acl nat.) 



Thymus. 



'^'W^''" 



'^Bm 



rail-bladder. 



Bile-duct. 



Portal. 



Duodenal. 



Mesenteric. 



Spleen. 



Ileum. 



Rectum. 



The skin is reflected from chin to anus ; the abdominal wall is cut open and 

 reflected ; the ventral wall of the thorax is cut away ; the intestine is partially freed 

 from its mesentery and thrown over to the right ; and the lobes of the liver are 

 thrown forwards. (The lobes of the liver are R.C., Right Central ; C.A., Caudate ; 

 L.C., Left Central; L.L., Left Lateral; and S., Spigelian. The red arteries are 

 branches of the dorsal aorta lying deep, the more anterior is the coeliac forking "into 

 hepatic and gastric, the other is the anterior mesenteric : the blue veins are all 



