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to, the ascending and spiral part of the colon. It crosses the spine 

 behind the mesentery, but ascends a little as nsnal and becomes loose. 

 The small intestines are of considerable length. The ileum enters the 

 caecum, at the lower part of the belly jnst before the spine ; but this 

 situation will vaiy l . The caecum is very large and long ; its top is 

 towards the left ; from thence it passes, behind the mesentery, to the 

 right, in a serpentine course, then makes a sweep downwards, and 

 crosses the pelvis to the left again ; at this part it receives the ileum. 

 But this situation will vary, as it is a loose gut which may be turned 

 into almost any situation. The above is the course when lying loose in 

 the abdomen ; but, when the caecum is blown up, it makes one com- 

 plete spiral turn and a half. From the left, the colon again makes 

 another turn to the right, upon the last described turn, adhering to it 

 by a narrow mesocolon. At this last bend it begins to become small, 

 and continues to do so to the right ; and here it has got longitudinal 

 rugae. "When got to the right side it passes up, along the right side, 

 adhering to the duodenum, and here it makes two complete spiral turns 

 upon itself, then passes out upon itself again ; crosses the spine closely 

 connected to the fore-part of the root of the mesentery, and becomes 

 attached towards the left of the mesentery to a very long mesocolon ; 

 it is here very loose and of great length, forming something like the 

 small guts : from this it passes down the left to the pelvis, and is 

 straight [or becomes rectum]. 



The liver is divided into five lobes ; the left is the largest ; the next 

 is nearly as large, has a fissure in its edge for the passage of the um- 

 bilical vein, and a sulcus on the under surface for the gall-bladder : the 

 two right lobes are small and much of a size ; the fifth is the lobulus 

 Spigelii, is very small, and wholly behind the mesogaster. There is 

 nothing particular about the gall-bladder or duets. In one from Mr. 

 Clarke 2 , the gall-bladder was only attached to the liver by a pretty 

 broad thin membrane through its whole length. 



The pancreas is a long flat body lying across the abdomen ; the left 

 end lies in what is commonly considered to be a doubling of the epi- 

 ploon, on the posterior part, where that membrane is going to join the 

 spleen. The [other] end of the pancreas is very thin and is divided 

 into several small portions, which spread out in the epiploon bike fingers. 

 The epiploon is attached posteriorly to the pancreas instead of the colon. 



1 [Tliis last remark is omitted by Home in the abstract given in bis Comp. Anat. 

 i. p. 449.] 



- [Probably the Founder of ' Exeter Change,' and who was Hunter's principal 

 creditor for sums borrowed to purchase objects for the rnuseum. The skull of the 

 specimen from Sir. Clarke is No. 2012, Hunt. Osteol. Series.] 



