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fide of the body, and the figmoid flexure eroded over the right 
pfoas, to get into the cavity of the pelvis. 
The kidnies had their vefiels tranfpofed, as we (hall remark 
more particularly afterwards ; the renal capfules had undergone 
no change, as no variety could be produced by a tranfpofition. 
The aorta pafled between the crura of the diaphragm into 
the cavity of the abdomen, and adhered in its courfe to the 
fpine on the right-fide of the vena cava inferior. Its branches 
were directed in their courfe correfponding to the peculiar 
fituation of the vifeera. The fplenic and coronary arteries 
were paffing to the right-fide, and the hepatic artery obliquely 
to the left. The fuperior and inferior mefenteric arteries were 
directed to the right-fide. There was no change in the fper- 
matic arteries, any tranfpofition in the tefticles (if fuch a 
thing could take place) not being capable of affecting them. 
The lumbar arteries could alfo undergo little change, except 
that the left lumbar arteries mud neceflarily, from the peculiar 
fituation of the aorta, be the longed:. The vena cava inferior 
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perforated the tendinous portion of the diaphragm, and ad- 
hered in its courfe to the fpine on the left-fide of the aorta. 
The right emulgent vein was much longer than ufual, paffing 
from the right kidney before the aorta to terminate in the vena 
cava fuperior ; and the left emulgent much fhorter, paffing from 
the left kidney to the vena cava, which was fituated on the left 
fide of the fpine. The right fpermatic vein was found to open 
into the right emulgent, and the left into the vena cava infe- 
rior, about an inch under the left emulgent. The vena por- 
tarum was changed from its natural courfe, paffing obliquely 
upwards to the left-fide, and its large branches, viz. the vena 
fplenica, mefaraica major and minor, were all directed towards 
the right-fide of the ipine. 
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