Dr. J. Gi'aut on the Anatotny of an Orang Outang. 93 



Mr. Breton, Dr. Adam, and myself examined the body a few hours 

 after death, and as there was an anxious wish to preserve the remains as 

 much as circumstances would permit, for the purpose of being sent to 

 the Zoological Society, a minute dissection would have been inconsistent 

 with this object. The examination that took place was therefore cursory, 

 cuid had more particular reference to the discovery of the cause of death 

 and the solution of doubts respecting the generative system of the animal. 



In opening the cavity of the abdomen, the parietes were found much 

 thinner than in the human species ; the colour of the skin in the line of 

 incision was of a rather deep blue, and the skin itself was strong and 

 thick compared with that of other varieties of Simi(B. The stomach, 

 liver, caput ccecum coli, and bowels generally bore a strong resemblance 

 to the human, both individually and in relative position, A serous 

 effusion had taken place in the peritoneal sac, and the stomach was dis- 

 tended with air. The caput caecum was filled with indurated foeces, and 

 attached to the caput was, as in man, an appendicula rermiformis about 

 four inches long. The pylorus was remarkably well defined, with the 

 same strong resemblance to the human as that possessed by other organs. 

 The duodenum also was formed as in man. 



In his valuable work on Comparative Anatomy, Sir Everard Home 

 states, that, in a long-tailed Monkey the intestines were very nearly the 

 same as in man, and that there was an appendicula ccsci of a pyramidal 

 form, and about half an inch long. In another Monkey, the appendi- 

 cula ccEci, it is stated in the same work, was entirely wanting ; in a 

 large black Monkey (qujere Gibbon) it was found three inches long ; and 

 in the Baboon it was wanting. Dr. Adam a few days before had exa- 

 mined a Lungoor fSimia Eniellus, Dufresne,) which had no vermiform 

 appendicle to the caput ccecum nor proper pylorus. In the animal under 

 consideration, as already mentioned, the pylorus was well marked, and 

 there was an appendicula vermiformis. 



The whole of the abdominal viscera were more or less in a morbid 

 state, there being tuberculous maculce on the liver, and tubercles in the 

 spleen, stomach, omentum, mesenterj% &c.: the tubercles when cut into 

 exhibited a whitish cheesy structure. The spleen was one mass of tu- 

 berculous disease, and was found strongly adhering to the stomach and 

 parietes of the abdomen. Near the inferior part of the stomach, point- 



