112 FUNCTION OF THE OMENTUM. 



" There is another two-fold office attributed with great proba- 

 bility to the omentum s, viz. that of facilitating the dilation of the 

 viscera to which it is contiguous, and of acting as a diverticulwni 

 to their blood during their state of vacuity. 



" If we reflect on the singular structure of the omentum par- 

 vum or hepato-gastricum especially, we may be inclined to be- 

 lieve that there is another, and perhaps, principal office attached 

 to it, unknown at present, and discoverable by comparative 

 anatomy." 



s " v. Cbaussier, Mfrnoires de VAcnd. de Dijon. 1784. Semestr. iii. p. 95." 



