ON THE STOMACH GLANDS OF THE 
RAT AND RABBIT. 
By 
Schin. Yoschida. 
In connection with the stomach glands of mammals the following points 
still remain undecided : 
1 . ) The original character of the cardiac glands found in the stomach of most 
mammals. The results of many histologists' researches into the original 
character of these glands may be divided into two classes : 
a) The cardiac gland is a peculiar stomach gland like the fundus and 
pylorus glands. 
b) ] The cardiac gland is a descendant of some other gland, probably the 
Fundus. 
2. ) There are several minor questions : 
a) Are the chief cells of the fundus gland the same as those of the 
pylorus or are they not ? 
b) On the appearance of the Parietal cells and their histological struc- 
ture. 
c) Whether different species of animals have a different distribution of 
the stomach glands. 
This paper has been written in order to answer these questions. 
In the first place I should like to give a historical review of the observa- 
tions on the stomach glands. 
Since, Professor Ellenberger in 1881, made his anatomical and physio- 
logical studies of the third stomach of ruminants and made clear the physiologi- 
[Jour. of the College of Agr., Tohoku Imp. Univ., Sapporo, Vol. VI, Pt. 8, June, 1915] 
