APPENDIX B. 



SIR EVERARD HOME'S ANATOMY OF THE STOMACH. 



" The camel's stomach anteriorly forms one large bag, 

 but when laid open this is found to be divided into two 

 compartments on its posterior part, by a strong ridge, 

 which passes down from the right side of the orifice of 

 the oesophagus in a longitudinal direction. This ridge 

 forms one side of a groove that leads to the orifice of 

 the second cavity, and is continued on beyond that part, 

 becoming one boundary to the cellular structure met 

 with in that situation. From this ridge eight strong 

 muscular bands go off at right angles, and afterwards 

 form curved lines till they are insensibly lost in the 

 coats of the stomach. These are at equal distances 

 from each other, and, being intersected in a regular way 

 by transverse septa, form the cells. This cellular 

 structure is in the left compartment of the first cavity, 

 and there is another of a more superficial kind on the 

 right, placed in exactly the opposite direction, made up 

 of twenty-one rows of smaller cells, but entirely un- 

 connected with the great ridge. On the left side of the 

 termination of the oesophagus, a broad muscular band 

 has its origin from the coats of the first cavity, and 

 passes down in the form of a fold parallel to the great 

 ridge, till it enters the orifice of the second, where it 



