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running across the arch. It is hollow, and is a conductor of the vessels 

 to the posterior surface of the stomach ; and the vessels coming to it 

 are from the left end. 



The omentum was loaded with fat, and extended about two-thirds of 

 the distance to the pubes. 



The great epiploon is very broad, covering the whole anterior surface 

 of the guts, and is folded and reflected round the lateral, lower and 

 posterior parts of them ; it is very thin at some parts, and very thick at 

 others, with fat ; the fat parts of the posterior lamella of the epiploon 

 passing in between the convolutions of the intestines like the internal 

 part of the pia mater. Perhaps it is for this use that it is made double, 

 that these folds of it may vary as the convolutions of the intestines 

 vary. It is attached to the whole convex arch of the stomach anteriorly, 

 and posteriorly to the pancreas, and on the left to the spleen. 



The liver is divided into five lobes, besides the lobulus Spigelii, or in 

 other words there are six : and the gall-bladder is in a large fissure in 

 the middle [lobe], between the two middle lobes [those to the right and 

 left of the gall-bladder-lobe]. It was in a contorted manner long before 

 it forms the duct. 



The pancreas is almost as in other brutes, having two lobes, but with 

 this difference, — that the small one, after it has passed along the curve 

 of the duodenum to the passing of that gut behind the mesentery, joins 

 the right side of the root of the mesentery, or rather the trunk of the 

 vena portae, and passes up with it as high as the pylorus, or rather as 

 high as tbe large pancreas which crosses the vena portae. At that part 

 the two pancreases join one another, so that the little pancreas makes a 

 complete ring, with a little bit of the head, or beginning of the large 

 one. The duct likewise makes a complete circle, for the duct of the 

 small pancreas communicates with the large at two different places. 

 The ducts of both unite into one at its attachment to the duodenum, 

 and [the common duct] enters that gut, with the biliary ducts, about 

 4 inches from the pylorus. 



The length of the small intestines is something above four times the 

 length of the body of the animal ; that of the great intestine is about 

 two-thirds. The caecum is about 3 inches in length 1 . Their coats 

 are very dense and strong, not of a flexible or soft texture, but rather 

 like half -boiled tripe 2 . 



The bladder is very loose in the pelvis. The prostate gland is situated 



1 [Hunt. Prep. No. 724. The difference in length from the caecum noticed in the 

 preceding page, shows the observation to have been made on another subject : the 

 anatomy of both the male and female is here given.] 



2 [lb. Nos. 603-696.] 



