XI. 

 OTHER ORGANS OF DIGESTION. 



The Digestive Organs of the Rabbit. 

 A. The General Plan of the Body Preliminary, 



Materials. A live rabbit. Chloroform. Cotton batting. Water. 

 Apparatus. An air-tight jar or box just large enough to hold 

 the rabbit. 



Kill the rabbit by placing it in an air-tight box with 

 some cotton batting saturated with chloroform. When 

 ready for dissection, lift the skin of the ventral side and 

 make a cut along the median line from near the base of 

 the tail forward to the breast-bone. Cut through the 

 skin, and also through the body-wall. At the posterior 

 and anterior ends of the slit make cross-cuts extending 

 nearly around to the spinal column on either side and lay 

 back the flaps of the skin. 



Notice : 



a. The larger cavity at the posterior end of the body 

 is the abdominal cavity and contains all the visceral 

 organs. 



6. The smaller cavity toward the anterior end of the 

 body is the thoracic cavity. 



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