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3. Gastric artery which divided into two branches. The upper 

 one anastomosed with the oesojDhageal twigs, and the lower one 

 Avith the pancreatico-duodenal branch of the superior mesenteric 

 a,rtery. The two branches diverged at right angles from the 

 parent trunk, and ran along the anterior surface of the stomach 

 just below the lesser curvature. 



4. CEsophageal artery which supplies the lower end of the gullet. 

 It broke up into a brushwork of terminal vessels which anasto- 

 mosed with one another and with the upper branch of the gastric 

 •artery. There was no connection between these vessels and any 

 within the thorax. 



Text-figure 20. 



PULMONARY 

 VEIN 



DIAPHRAGM 



OESOPHAGEAL ARTERY. 

 GASTRIC ARTERY 

 SPLENIC ARTERY^. 

 COF^LIAC ARTERY — 



ABOOMiNALAOOTA 



BR.A^'CH 



SUPERIOR MESENTERIC 



ARTERY 



PAfiCREATIC 

 ARTERY 



The Coeliac Axis Arteiy. 



5. Pulmonary twigs which were given off from both sides of 

 the vessel within the lower lobe of the left lung. These vessels 

 were very small and soon divided into two. 



No branches were given off from the part between the oeso- 

 phageal opening in the diaphragm and the point of entrance of 

 the vessel into the lung, and there was no hepatic branch at all, 

 and the hepatic blood-supply came from the superior mesenteric 

 ai-tery instead. 



It is difficult to give an explanation of the conditions described 



