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XIX. Observations on the Camel's Stomach respecting the JVater 
it contains, and the Reservoirs, in which that Fluid is inclosed; 
with an Account of some Peculiarities in the Urine, By 
Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S . 
Read June 12, 1806. 
The Board of Curators of the Museum belonging to the 
Royal College of Surgeons, formed of seven Members of the 
Court of Assistants, have from their first appointment em- 
braced every opportunity of augmenting the Hunterian 
Collection : and in December, 1805, hearing that a camel in 
a dying state was to be sold, purchased it with a view of 
illustrating the anatomy of that animal. They appointed Mr. 
Long, (their Chairman,) Mr. Cline, Teacher of Anatomy, 
with Sir William Blizard and myself, the two Professors of 
Anatomy and Surgery to the College, a Committee for that 
purpose. 
As Professor of Comparative Anatomy I was directed to 
examine the peculiarities of the stomach, and to make a report 
on that subject. This report appeared to the Board of Cu- 
rators to contain some facts, which had not before been ascer- 
tained ; and it is at their desire that the present communica- 
tion is made. 
The camel, the subject of the following observations, was a, 
female, brought from Arabia ; 28 years old, and said to have 
