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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
wise called the sweetbread, is a gdandular body lying across 
the spine in the epigastric region, underneath the crura of the 
diaphragm, immediately behind and a little above the small 
curvature of the stomach. 
j y k. Two probes passed through the common orifice through which 
the bile and the pancreatic secretion pass jnto the first intestine. 
The part where the two probes intersect each other mark the 
spot where these tubes unite. 
THE LITER. 
PLATE TX. Fig. 2, a. 
This organ is situated between the stomach and the 
diaphragm Its right is in contact with the duodenum and 
the right kidney, and the middle and left divisions with the 
stomach. It is confined in its place by means of what have 
been termed its ligaments, which, with the exception of 
one, are nothing more than elongations proceeding from the 
peritoneum. The one attaching the right lobe to the 
diaphragm is called the right ligament; a similar one con¬ 
necting the left lobe to it, the left ligament; between the 
diaphragm and its middle lobe, is the suspensory ligament; 
and immediately above that, surrounding the posterior vena 
cava , is the coronary ligament; and that within the folds ot 
the suspensory ligament are the remains of the umbilical 
vein. 
In our description of the heart, at page 263, we mentioned 
that the blood which is conducted to the different parts ot 
the body by the arteries, is returned to the heart by the 
veins. But that portion of the blood which is returned 
from the stomach, intestines, pancreas, spleen, and mesen¬ 
tery, instead of taking a direct course to the heart, passes 
first through the liver. Two large vessels conduct it 
thither, and as soon as they have entered its substance, 
