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II. Some ObferVations made in an Oftrich, differed 
by Order of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. By Mr. 
John Ranby, Surgeon. F. S. 
H Aving feparated the Mufcles of the Abdomen , 
which in this' Subject were only two oblique 
Pair, we obferv’d, between their Tendons , which were 
very ftrong, and the Teritonaum , which was exceed- 
ing thin, a thick Layer of fevous Fat, whofe Office, con- 
fidering the Smallnefs of the Epiploon, and the few adi- 
pofe Veficles of the Mefentery , with the Thinnefsofthe 
Teriton&um, might probably be to fupply the Part both 
of Epiploon and Mefentery in other Animals, as to lu- 
bricating the Inteftines. 
There were, in our Subject, two diftind Ventricles, 
contrary to the Obfervation of the Royal Academy at 
Tarts. The firft, and in its natural Situation, the 
lower, which the Members of the Laid’ Academy, call 
the Craw, and fuppofe to be only a Dilatation of the 
Oefophagus , was confiderably larger than the fecond, 
and uppermoft Mufcular One ^ befides, that it had 
ftrong Mufcular Fibres, both circular and longitudinal : 
The TDuodenum comes immediately out of the fecond 
Ventricle. 
Both Ventricles were diftcnded beyond their ufual 
Form, and fill’d up with fo large a Quantity of 
Food of different Kinds, as Stones, Bones, Sticks, Grain, 
and other Food, that it was almoft impoffible for them 
to perform their Office of Digeftion, which very likely 
was one of the chief Caufes of the Animal’s Sicknefs 
and Death • and, really, the Contents of both feern’d 
to have undergone but very little or no Alteration. 
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