MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



wise called the sweetbread, is a glandular body lying across 

 the spine in the epigastric region, underneath the crura of the 

 diaphragm, immediately behind and a little above the small 

 curvature of the stomach. 

 ;, /-, Two probes passed through the coraraon orifice through which 

 the bile and the pancreatic secretion pass into the first intestine. 

 The part where the two probes intersect each other mark the 

 spot where these tubes unite. 



THE LIYER. 



PLATE IX. Fig. 2, a. 



This organ is situated between the stomacli and the 

 diaphragm Its right is in contact with the duodenum and 

 the right kidney, and the middle and left divisions with the 

 stomach. It is confined in its place by means of what have 

 been termed its ligaments, which, with the exception of 

 one, are nothing more than elongations proceeding from the 

 peritoneum. The one attaching the right lobe to the 

 diaphragm is called the right ligament ; a similar one con- 

 necting the left lobe to it, the left ligament ; between the 

 diaphragm and its middle lobe, is the suspensory ligament ; 

 and immediately above that, surrounding the posterior vena 

 cava, is the coronary ligament ; and that within the folds of 

 the suspensory ligament are the remains of the umbilical 

 vein. 



In our description of the heart, at page 263, we mentioned 

 that the blood which is conducted to the different parts of 

 the body by the arteries, is returned to the heart by the 

 veins. But that portion of the blood which is returned 

 from the stomach, intestines, pancreas, spleen, and mesen- 

 tery, instead of taking a direct course to the heart, passes 

 first through the liver. Two large vessels conduct it 

 thither, and as soon as they have entered its substance, 



