INTESTINAL STRUCTURE. 



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the gullet; and in the butterfly is enlarged into a 

 honey stomach 



Intestinal canals of the caterpillar, pupa, and butterfly. 



1. Caterpillar. , the oesophagus. 6, the stomach, c rf, the 



two large intestines. 



2. Pupa two days old. #, the oesophagus. 6, the stomach, c d 



the two large intestines. 



3. Pupa eight days old. a, dilation of the oesophagus, forming 



the crop or honey-stomach. 



4. Pupa immediately before its transformation. , the honey- 



stomach become a lateral appendage of the oesophagus. 6 

 the stomach, c d, the large intestines. 



5. Butterfly, a, honey-stomach. 6, the digesting stomach, c d, 



the large intestines, become very long. 



It is remarkable that in men of such extraordinary 

 appetite as amounts to a disease (Bulimia, CULLEN), 

 the natural capacity of the stomach, which, accord- 

 ing to Blumenbach, contains about three pints,* 

 is very much enlarged. This was peculiarly the 

 case with Tarare, an Italian juggler, who, from swal- 

 lowing flints, whole baskets of fruit, &c, seems 

 to have enlarged the capacity of his stomach so as 

 to render his appetite insatiable. M. Tessier, of the 

 Infirmary at Versailles, where Tarare died of con- 

 sumption, found on examination that his stomach 



Blumenbach, Physiol., s. xxiii. 



