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III. A Letter from Charles Price, Efq-, of 
Trinity-Coil. Oxon, relating to the Villi of 
the Stomach of Oxen, and the Expanjion of 
the Cuticle through the Lucius Jlimentalis. 
Communicated by Dr. F. Nicholls, R ft. S. 
and Pr&l, Anat. Oxon. 
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Trinity-Coil. Oxon, July the 28th, 17*5. 
: Dear S I /?, 
I N Purfuance of your Advice, I have fpent fome 
Part of this Summer in enquiring into the more 
intimate Conftitution of the alimentary Paflage of large 
Animals j in Hopes that the Analogy between them 
and human Subjects may lead us into a more per- 
fect Knowledge of our own Structure. 
In the Stomach of the Cow I find two Things 
well worth obferving : The hrft is, that the Villi 
compofing the Villous Coat, (which are in Man fo 
very fmall as to be fcarce vifible when examined 
feparately) are in this Animal fo very large, as to 
allow an exad Scrutiny into their 
Strudure. Each Villus is formed by 
a Duplicature of the internal Lamina 
of the vafcular Coat j from which it 
receives three Blood Veffels, as in the 
annex’d Figure, which reprefents one 
of the Villi of the Stomach of an Ox 
magnify’d. Whether or no the two 
Side- veffels are Arteries, and the Mid- 
dle-veffel a Vein ; and whether thofe 
fmall Branches arifing from the Side- 
veffels 
