352 Sir Everard Home’s observations, &c, 
the stomach, is the only apology I shall make for having 
pressed it so much upon the attention of the Society. Its use 
in the pathology of that viscus, although perhaps of still 
more importance to the cause of suffering humanity, this is 
not the proper place to consider. 
Explanation of Plates XVIII, XIX, XX. 
Plate XVIII. 
Fig. i. parts of a square inch of the lower part of the 
oesophagus, magnified 15 times in diameter, or 225 times in 
superficies. 
Fig. 2. T ~ parts of a square inch of the cardiac portion, 
magnified 15 times in diameter, or 225 times in superficies. 
Fig. 3. parts of a square inch of the same cardiac 
portion, magnified 30 times in diameter, or 900 times in super- 
ficies. 
Plate XIX. 
Fig. 1. parts of a square inch of the pyloric portion, 
magnified 15 times in diameter, or 225 times in superficies. 
Fig. 2. parts of a square inch of the same pyloric por- 
tion, magnified 30 times in diameter, or 900 times in super- 
ficies. 
Fig. 3. yuo Parts of a square inch of the duodenum, im- 
mediately joining the pylorus, magnified 15 times in diameter, 
or 225 times in superficies. 
Plate XX. 
The human stomach, in a distended state, to show a per- 
manent contraction, which had taken place in consequence of 
disease, separating the cardiac from the pyloric portions. 
