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The stomach was situated almost altogether to 

 the left, very much sunk and concealed by the 

 liver. I wished, to no purpose, to examine the 

 dimensions and the forms of ihe stomach and of 

 the intestinal canal : on the slightest attempt to 

 raise those parts, or to remove them from each 

 other, they separated, and presented only formless 

 fragments. The case was the same as to the me- 

 sentery, the vessels, &c. &c. 



The liver was composed of three lobes and one 

 lobule. Two lobes were exterior, the one right, 

 the other left, contiguous and separated only by 

 a deep scissure, in which passed a little of the 

 cellular texture, a vestige of the suspensory liga- 

 ment. The posterior lobe was entirely situated 

 to the left ; in other respects, those three lobes 

 presented to me neither semicircular incision nor 

 appendice; but under the right lobe, in the pos- 

 terior part, I found an irregular lobule, to which 

 adhered some of the cellular texture, that seemed 

 to be the vesicle of the gall. I say seemed \ for 

 here, as frequently in other cases, the bad condi- 

 tion of the membranous parts very much mace- 

 rated, rendered it impossible to distinguish the 

 first forms of them. The structure of the liver it 

 was more easy to ascertain ; at the same time its 

 parenchyma was not the less separable from it by 

 a slight pressure. 



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