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fundus glands, and that, therefore, the cardiac gland is quite distinct from all 
other stomach glands. 
As I have said above, the opinions on the cardiac gland, up to the 
present time, may be divided into two classes : 
1, The cardiac gland is a peculiar kind of stomach gland. This opinion 
is held by EUenberger and other histologists who studied in his In- 
stitute, as Hamme and Edelmann. 
2. The cardiac gland is an outcome of the Fundus gland. Professors 
Oppel, Fleischmann and Bensley hold this opinion. 
For the sake of convenience, Mus muscuraris and Lepus cuniculus have 
been employed as material. From these animals which have been killed with 
chloroform vapour I have cut out the stomach with a small portion of the 
lower part of the Oesophagus, a small portion of the upper part of the small 
intestine remaining. It was cut open along its long curvature and the con- 
tents washed away with physiological salt solution. The stomach was divided 
as follows : 
1. A connected part containing the thick-walled portion which will be 
called the cardiac sac and the thin-walled portion, the Fundus portion. 
2. A connected part containing a portion of the small intestine and sto- 
mach proper and other different portions. 
This was thrown into fixation fluids. As fixation fluids I have always 
used Picro-sulphuric acid solution, Zenker's solution and Muller's fluids. 
The material was placed in 707» alcohol, then transferred to 80 7u) and 
to successively higher grades of alcohol. As staining I have used double 
staining, Hansen's haematoxylin combined with congo-red. For Mucous 
reaction of the stomach gland, I have used muci-carmin, iron-alum, eosin and 
toluidin. The material was cut in serial sections with a thickness of 5/i. 
In 1909, I studied the stomach of the Mus muscuraris and Lepus from a 
histological and anatomical standpoint, but since that time I have obtained 
further material and continued my researches, the results of which are given 
in this paper. Whenever my present results correspond with my former 
