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itomachs, as formerly supposed, but only of one, which 

 thoy view as being divided into four compartments. 

 In drawing precise conclusions, we are bound only to 

 admit the existence of two compartments, the other two 

 belonging properly to the gullet; and being equivalent 

 to the cheek pouches of monkeys, or the crop and mem- 

 branous stomach of birds, may be viewed as an ap- 

 paratus designed to serve a nearly similar purpose 

 (that of moistening and macerating the food) ; while the 

 real stomach will cease to excite wonder, or puzzle the 

 ignorant, on being contrasted with that of other animals, 

 in many of which a division exists, and from which even 

 the human stomach, though generally a single sac, is 

 not always exempt, — Dr Knox, of Edinburgh, being 

 in possession of one that resembles a pairof small globes 

 joined by a narrow tube, and which, when taken from 

 the body of a person who was advanced in life, bore 

 every mark of soundness in texture, and must, there- 

 re, have been congenital. 



(21.) Digestion.* — The food descends by the gullet 

 after being partially crushed, into what is called the 

 first stomach, or paunch, in Latin, rumen, or ingluvies, 

 in which cavity are found those morbid concretions so 

 much, and so superstitiously, prized in the Eastern 

 world, under the name of Bezoar stones ; from this^it 

 passes into the second, termed bonnet, king's hood, or 

 honey-comb, in Lathi retictihtmy which is much smaller 

 than the other, and receives its name from the inner 

 coat being arranged into cells; here it is moistened, 

 made into pellets, and, while the animal is at rest, 

 impelled by the antiperistaltic motion of the tube to 



» See Figs 2 and 3, Plate I. with their references. 

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