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head and ears and trunk weighed 510 pounds, bringing the 

 entire weight of the head to 1,399 pounds. 



The total weight of the muscles, fascia, and fat, weighed 

 in sections, was 4,365 pounds. This does not include the 

 weight of the four legs from the knee down. 



The liver weighed 235 pounds; the kidneys, 40 pounds; 

 a small section of the trachea, including the larynx, 16 

 pounds; and the salivary glands, nearly 18 pounds. 



The pendulous portion of the penis weighed 44 pounds ; the 

 internal portion, 25 pounds; and the testes, nearly 20 pounds. 



We followed the splanchnic nerve up into the chest as 

 far as the fourth rib, but a better dissection might have 

 carried a small film further. The splanchnic nerve received 

 additions at each vertebra all the way down through the 

 diaphragm, at which point the splanchnic widened out into 

 a sheet about ij-^ inches in width, where it entered the 

 celiac complex. 



The thyroid gland was fused and lay in the thoracic 

 opening, as in the case of the hippopotamus. 



In this entire dissection we collected only 26 pounds of 

 fat. African animals exhibit little or no neutral fat. The 

 animal that would perhaps be inclined to show the most 

 fat is the zebra. The lions showed little fat. As a conse- 

 quence of the absence of fat, incidentally, the natives crave 

 it. In our dissections we have found fat constantly present, 

 however, in certain locations and in certain organs of all 

 the wild animals. We have found fat distributed at the 

 base of the heart and at the beginning of the aorta. This 

 distribution of fat, like the special fats constituting the 

 brain, is not consumed in starvation. The lipoids of the 

 brain are a vital structure, therefore are constant. 



The heart muscle, like the brain and unlike all other 

 muscles of the body, does not lose weight in starvation. 

 The heart is a vital organ. 



In our dissections we have found that the adrenal-sym- 

 pathetic complex as a whole, including the adrenal glands, 



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