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Addendum 2. 



The Pancreas is large and lies to the right of the abdomen 

 in the root of the mesentery ; its ducts open separately 

 into the duodenum at a distance of over three feet from the 

 pylorus. 



Scirrhous, tubercular and cancerous deposit, hypertrophy, 

 and abscess of this, organ are described, but nothing more 

 seems to be known about these disorders than that, when 

 chronic, they give rise to malnutrition, since they interfere 

 with the due elaboration of fat-forming material. Calculi 

 in the pancreas or its duct are occasionally found. They 

 are generally of a milky-white colour, dense and rough, 

 and about as big as a pea. 



Section 3. — Of the Peritoneum. 



This membrane of the ox is only remarkable as forming 

 a large and well- developed omentum major, which generally 

 contains much fat. 



Peritonitis — inflammation of the lining memhrane of the 

 abdomen — is very rare in the ox, and we have often above 

 had occasion to remark the impunity with which very 

 formidable operations may be performed in which it is 

 subjected to injury. The various abdominal sections and 

 castration afPect it, and it is more or less involved in 

 inflammations of various abdominal viscera, but its disease 

 passes unnoticed in the general disorder, and it is only after 

 wounds and occasionally climatic changes that it thus pri- 

 marily becomes inflamed. Then the animal suffers from 

 obscure pain, and is, therefore, dull and anxious, looking 

 round occasionally at the flank, moaning, grinding the teeth, 

 stamping, and with hind limbs trembling. The bowels do 

 not act, the pulse has the hardness characteristic of inflam- 

 mations of serous membranes, the extremities are cold, 

 and these cases rapidly terminate fatally. It will be 

 observed that the respiration is characteristically thoracic, 

 the diaphragm being as much as possible relieved from its 

 duties, which cause extra pain. 



