1882.] 



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are distributed mainly over the anterior 24 inrlies and the posterior 

 part, there being a space of about 2 inches between these regions 

 which is destitute of them ; there is also an irregular row along each 

 edge. There is a distinct Mayer's organ ( pnpil/n fofiafa) on each 

 side, about half an inch long, on the upper edge of the root of the 

 tongue. The frenum was attached about 3 inches from the apex. 



The salivary glands resemble those of the Horse in every important 

 particular. The parotids are large, extending from the front part of 

 the hinge of the lower jaw to the paroccipital process. Steno's 

 duct passes down along the lower edge of the masseter, and then 

 runs up again so as to open by an aperture with well-marked lips 

 about f inch from the upper molar teeth, opposite the line of appo- 

 sition of the second and third molars. The submaxillary and sub- 

 lingual glands were also large, their ducts opening in the usual 

 position. Upper and lower molar glands were present; and there 

 was a large palatal gland over the velum palati. The tonsils did not 

 present any definite elevations, the glands composing them being 

 scattered. Each thyroid was about 1 inch long, and was connected 

 with its fellow bv a bridge | of an inch in width. 



Poelman figures an external view of the stomach, which, however, 

 does not jepreseut it quite accurately. I therefore give another 

 figure (fig. 1), showing its internal structure. 



Fig. 1. 



The stomach, laid open, from the posterior side, one fourth nat. size. 



e.p./, cardio-pyloric fold; oex.fp, oesophageal epithelium ; h.d, bile-duct; 



^. d, pancreatic duct ; v. c, valvuli conniventes. 



The stomach measured about two feet along the greater curva- 

 ture. There is a marked constriction between the entrance of the 

 cesophagus and the duodenum, about halfway between the two, 

 and not close to the duodenum as in Poelman's figure, in which 



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