SURGICAL ANATOMY OF THE ABDOMEN 



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Following this summary of the regional anatomy as 

 written by General Smith, I wish here to refer again to 

 the arrangement of the cardiac fibres of the stomach. 

 Their arrangement is so striking, and of such peculiar 

 interest when we come later to discuss gastric tympany, 

 that I wish, if possible, to render even more clear the 

 excellent description of them he has given us. To that 



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Fig. 4. Superficial or External Muscular Coat of Stomach. 



A, CEsophagus; B, left sac ; C, right sac ; D, duodenal Strap. 



end I append diagrams to illustrate them, and, although 

 the matter arrived at is essentially the same as that set 

 out on p. 9, dissections I have made of the stomachal 

 coats lead me to put their description into somewhat 

 different words. They run as follows : 



I. A Superficial Plane.— This is evidently a con- 

 tinuation of the longitudinal muscular layer of the 

 oesophagus (see Fig. 4). It radiates obHquely over the 



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