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left is the largest, and comes furthest down the cavity of the ahdomen. 

 The second is next in size, does not come so low, hut is broad and 

 irregular on the under surface, having the gall-bladder attached, and 

 the remains of the umbilical vein : the third is nest in size, and the 

 fourth or right is the smallest, lying hid by the others, and is attached 

 to the right of the vena cava inferior. The lobulus Spigelii lies in the 

 curve of the stomach, entirely behind the mesogaster. The gall- 

 bladder is attached to the second lobe [from the left], and would at first 

 sight appear to be in the centre of that lobe, for the two lateral edges 

 of that lobe approach one another, and as it were surround the gall- 

 bladder : it is attached to that right flap of liver by a thin membrane, 

 and to the ligamentum rotundum by another. 



The epiploon surrounds the whole intestines : it is attached to the 

 great curvature of the stomach, and to a little bit of the duodenum 

 before ; to the diaphragm on the left, and to the root of the mesentery 

 behind, so that both the spleen and large pancreas are, as it were, in a 

 doubling of the posterior and left part of the epiploon. The stomach \ — 

 The pylorus is not so firmly attached to the back as in the human. 

 The duodenum passes down the right side ; it is not attached to the 

 loins, but by a short mesentery to the beginning of the transverse arch 

 of the colon and to the cseeum ; it goes behind these guts, attached to 

 the cseeum in the same manner, and then makes a turn upwards on the 

 right side of the mesocolon, being closely attached to it ; it then becomes 

 loose. The ileum enters the cseeum at the part which lies nearly in 

 the middle of the body, just above the spine : from this part the cseeum 

 passes to the right side and then up that side. 



The length of the small intestines is twelve times the length of the 

 animal, from the nose to the end of the hind- foot, but from the nose to 

 the rump it is sixteen times. 



The pancreases are two ; but the small one does not lie in the curve 

 of the duodenum, as in most other animals ; it comes off from the large 

 one near its middle, and passes down and to the left, getting into the 

 mesoduodenum near its last turns, and then bends round the root of 

 the mesentery with that gut, and some of it, or its termination, is in 

 the mesentery. The large pancreas is pretty long, is not closely con- 

 nected to the spleen, but lies in the same doubling of the epiploon, and 



1 [See the Dry Preparation, Mus. Coll. Chir, In a specimen dissected at the 

 Zoological Gardens, I found the stomach, 5^ inches long, and 8 inches in its greatest 

 circumference when moderately distended ; it had a remarkable constriction between 

 its cardiac and pyloric portions, which gave it the appearance of consisting of two 

 distinct cavities ; the pyloric portion bulged out on each side of the pylorus so as to 

 make the duodenum commence from a central depression.] 



