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Plate No. 4. 



THE STOMACH OF THE HORSE. 



a, the gullet, or oesophagus, extending to the stomach : b, b, the margin which 

 separates the cuticular from the villous coats of the stomach ; c, the entrance of 

 the gullet into the stomach ; d, d, the cuticular portion of the stomach ; e, the 

 communication between the stomach and first intestine ; f,f,f, the villous or mu- 

 cous portion of the stomach, in which the food is principally digested ; g, the small 

 orifice through which a portion of the pancreatic juice enters the intestine ; h, the 

 orifice through which the bile passes into the intestine : the two pins mark the two 

 tubes. 



