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XXVII. Observations on the gastric glands of the human sto- 
mach , and the contraction which takes place in that viscus. 
By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V . P. R. S. 
Read June 2 6, 1817. 
I n the year 1807 , 1 laid before the Royal Society some obser- 
vations on the human stomach, and I am now enabled, through 
the assistance of Mr. Bauer, to exhibit magnified views of 
the internal membrane of that viscus, in which the different 
structures composing its surface are distinctly shown. 
The magnified drawings of the gastric glands of the Java 
swallow, so lately exhibited, must still rest upon the minds 
of those members who saw them ; they are of so instructive 
a nature, that I was led to request Mr. Bauer would make 
similar representations of the glands of the lower part of the 
human oesophagus, and of the surface of the internal mem- 
brane of the stomach and duodenum. 
The stomach employed for this purpose was under the 
most favourable circumstances, as the patient had died of an 
apoplexy, having no other bodily complaint. 
The glands situated in the lining of the lower part of the 
oesophagus, which in my former Paper were called oesopha- 
geal glands, when examined in the microscope, have the 
appearance of infundibular cells, whose depth does not exceed 
the thickness of the membrane. This structure, however 
different from that of the gastric glands of birds, is a nearer 
