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CHAP. 'XVIII. 



THfe STOMACH AND INTESTINES. 



General De/criptiox of the Stomach. Length of the Inteftines in Man - 

 and Quadrupeds. Small and large Intcftinei. 



TH fe ftomach is a membranous fack, in form, 

 when diftended, not unlike a bag-pipe. The 

 ftomach js much larger towards the left fide than to- 

 wards the right. It has two orifices, one towards its 

 left fide, where the cefophagus or gullet enters, called 

 the cardia, arid another towards the right, called the 

 pylorus, which opens into the inteftines. The great 

 extremity of the ftomach is in the left hypochondriurrii 

 and for the moft part immediately under the diaphragm> 

 yet the left orifice is not in the left hypochondrium, 

 but almoft oppofite to, and very near the middle of 

 the bodies of the loweft vertebra of the back. The 

 fmall extremity of the ftomach does not reach to the 

 right hypochondrium ; it bends obliquely backward 

 towards the other orifice j fo that the pylorus lies about 

 two fingers breadth from the body of the vertebrae, 

 immediately under the fmall portion of the liver, and 

 confequently lower down and more forward than the 

 cardia. The ftomach is connected to the omentum, 

 and by means of the omenturrij on the left fide, to the 

 fpleen. 



Trie orifices of the ftomach are placed in the recefles 

 on each fide of the fpine, and the body of the ftomach 

 is clofely applied to -it, and in a manner bent round it. 

 The orifices of the ftomach are therefore placed -further 

 Jpack than its body, and are alfo a litfc higher, though 



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