D. THE STOMACH, BY E. KLEIN. 



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a distance of from one half to two millimeters below the upper 

 boundary-line of the cardia, the columnar epithelium lining the 

 tubes is replaced at the fundus of the glands by spheroidal or 



Fig. 106. 



Fig. 106. Transverse section through the fundus of the stomach in 

 a Child, a a, cylindrical epithelium ; b b, peptic tubes ; c c, muscularis 

 mucosce ; d d, submucous tissue ; e, circular muscular layer ; /, longitu- 

 dinal muscular layer ; g, peritoneum ; h, ganglion of Auerbach. 



elongated dark or pale strongly granular cells, often resembling 

 bi-convex lenses. This replacement quickly extends upwards, 

 so that the tubes soon appear to be lined with pepsine cells as 

 far as their uppermost third. This relation obtains approxi- 

 matively as far as to the middle of the large curvature. Com- 

 mencing from the middle of the large curvature the columnar 



