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tered the intestine, there being but one common termination between 

 them. On tracing the pancreatic duct it was found issuing from 

 the middle of the right extremity of the gland, which latter was 

 somewhat irregular in shape, ha\'ing each extremity divided into 

 two cornua, and to the junction of the two right cornua the duct 

 was easily traced. The length of the pancreas was 24 inches. 



" The stomach was ovoid in form, the cardiac portion occupying 

 nearly one half of the viscus, and the pyloric orifice being not more 

 than ^ an inch from the cardiac. The position of the pyloric valve 

 was marked by a deep indentation. The length of the stomach was 

 3 inches ; its diameter opposite the cardiac orifice, 2-i-. 



" The spleen was attached by a loose fold of mesentery to the 

 middle of the greater curvature of the stomach, and was somewhat 

 triangular in shape. It was 2-^ inches in length, and 1-j in breadth 

 at the broadest part. 



" The duodenum was attached throughout by a mesenteric fold, 

 its diameter was about |-, or nearly an inch. From the duodenum 

 the small intestines gradually diminished in diameter to the ileo- 

 colic valve, their diameter in the narrowest part being reduced to 

 -J- an inch. The total length of the small intestines was 3 feet 7 

 inches. The ccecum was simple in figure, with a blunt apex, and 

 measured 2 inches in length. The large intestines measured 4-j- 

 inches. 



" The kidneys were of the usual shape and exhibited no diffe- 

 rence in their respective situation, neither being placed higher than 

 the other. The membranous capsule was little adherent, and no 

 superficial vessels were observable. The papilla was single. The 

 length of each kidney was 2l inches, the breadth -|, and the thick- 

 ness -1^. The renal capsules appeared wanting. 



" The lungs were very irregularly divided, there being four lobes 

 on the right side and but one, without any fissure, on the left. 



" The rings of the trachea at its upper part formed nearly an en- 

 tire circle, which, as they proceeded downwards, became less and 

 less comj)lete till, at the lower part, three-fourths only of the ring 

 was cartilage. The number of rings was twenty-one, but many 

 were so bifurcated at the lower part as to render it doubtful whether 

 they should be counted as double or single. 



" The sterno-thyroid and stemo-hyoid muscles were very strong 

 and distinct. The thyroid glands were found lying one on each side 

 of the first six rings of the trachea, and measured -I of an inch in 

 length. 



" The mucous lining of the oesophagus was puckered into longitu- 

 dinal rug(E throughout its whole extent, except for the last 4ths of 

 an inch, where the rugce were transverse. 



" The length of the tongue from the epiglottis was 3 J- inches, its 

 breadth J. Its apex was flat and round, and the middle of the 

 anterior portion of its dorsum or upper surface covered with retro- 

 verted papillcE, a line of fungiform papillae occupying each side of the 



