Mi abfir aSi of ajournal of the Philofophical Society 
of Oy^ioxd^ being an account of form Experiments 
relating /cjDigeftion read before that Society, and 
of a large bed of Ghnds obfervd in the Stomach of 
hijack. 
Aug, i^th 1^84., 
i^ g "^He Society being met, the following Experiments 
I were tried, by Mr. Mz^j^r^t/^. 
Part of a mucous lubftance, taken out of the 
Stomach of a Jac\, near the Pylorus^ and mixt with folu- 
tion of fublimate, became much r^to^r than it was be- 
fore. 
Anotlier part of itj mixt with Syrup of Violets^ turn- - 
Qd Green. 
The faiTie perfon has obferv'd like efFeds, by mixing a 
Liquor, found in the ftomach of 2. Hedghog, with Syrup ; 
of Violets, and with folution of fublimate, 
Thefe experiments are urg'd as an argument againft 
the exiftence of an Acid Ferment in the ftomach : It feems 
probab-e, that the great work o{ Digepon proceeds from a 
Volatile Ale alt. 
He alfo took notice of alarge of G/<^;?i^r, making 
about \ths of the infideof the ftomach, and ieated near 
the Tylorus oi a JacJ^: the whole Bed appears of a brown« 
ifh red colour, and is divided into feveral ^dges, which 
run parallel to one another and the fame way with the 
ftomach: for the better contraction of that part, ef^e- 
eially when emptv ; (at which time thefe Glands, being 
fixt to the inmoft coat, are, together with it, drawn up in- 
to wrinlkes:) thatedge ofth^sBed of Glands, which is 
neareftthehead of thefilh^ isdented J the Ridges break- 
