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CHAP. XX. 



THE ORGANS PLACED NEAR, BUT WITHOUT THE 

 CAVITY OF THE ABDOMEN. 



The Glandule Suprarenaks. The Kidneys. The Bladder. 



r | ^ H E glandulae fuprarenales are two triangular 

 JL bodies, the fabric of which is analous to that 

 of glands. In the foetus they are larger than the kid- 

 neys themfelves, over which they are placed; but in 

 adults they are much fmaller. They are hollow, and 

 are filled with areddifh matter. The right fuprarenal 

 gland is fixed to the liver, the left to the fpleen and 

 pancreas, both to the diaphragm, and each of them 

 to the kidney, above which it is placed. They are 

 furnifhed with no excretory duct, and their ufe is 

 unknown. 



The kidneys are two organs of a pale red colour, 

 and a firm confiftence, in farm refembling the beans 

 which bear the fame name. They are placed with- 

 out the cavity of the abdomen, on each fide of the 

 fpine, and extend acrofs the two loweft falfe ribs as 

 far as the bottom of the fecond lumbar vertebra ; 

 they reft on the great plbas mufcle, the fquare muf- 

 cle of the loins, and the tranfverfe of the abdomen, 

 in fuch a manner that the right kidney is placed below 

 the liver and the colon, fomewhat lower and further 

 back, the left under the fpleen, the ftomach, the pan- 

 creas, and the colon, fomewhat higher and more 

 forwards. The length of the kidneys is about fix 

 inches, their breadth about four. Of the two mar- 

 gins of the kidneys, that which is placed outwards 



