OF THE STOMACHS OF RUMINANTS. 557 
First,—Simple nerves coming directly from the pneumo-gastric 
by means of the inferior cesophagean cord. 
Secondly,—Compound nerves, plexous and ganglial, emanating 
from the superior cesophagean, and also from the cceliac plexus, 
and which, together, compose the grand superior cardiac plexus, 
which has been described. We remark, besides, some nervous 
filaments, recurrent, and still more compound, returning from the 
small intestines to the abomasum, and to which they furnish 
numerous plexous branches which ramify over its larger cur¬ 
vature. 
Thirdly,—A pneumogastric nervous branch, coming from the 
inferior cesophagean, proceeds to the liver, and the gall-bladder, 
and accompanies its excretory canal to the duodenum ; and this 
not only in the ox, but in the dog, an animal provided, like the 
ox, with a biliary reservoir, while no such provision is found in 
any of the horse species. 
All these nerves must be dissected, and studied again and 
again, in order that a proper notion can be formed of them. One 
is astonished at the innumerable quantity of their plexous fila¬ 
ments, the reunion and interlacement of which, beneath the peri¬ 
toneal membrane, form an admirable reservoir, whence proceed 
a crowd of minute and more than hair-like branches which pene¬ 
trate into the membranes of these viscera. 
The inferior cesophagean branch spreads itself everywhere 
over the three first stomachs, besides some filaments which it 
sends to the liv-er and the abomasum ; while the complex nerves 
emanating from the plexus formed by the superior cesophagean 
and the trisplanchnic branches go principally to the fourth 
stomach and the intestines, and in comparatively small quantity 
to the paunch, the reticulum, and the maniplus. 
Le Zooiatre da Midi, Fevrier 1838. 
[To be continued.] 
We here present our readers with a portion of one of the most 
valuable papers that has ever appeared in our Journal, on account 
of the accuracy of the anatomical facts which it contains, the in¬ 
telligible manner in which they are detailed, and the physiological 
and pathological inferences which must already present them¬ 
selves to the mind of every competent reader, and which M. 
Gelle will hereafter more fully unfold. To ourselves, who first 
ventured to direct the attention of the veterinary student to the 
true character and functions of the organic nerves as distinct 
from those of the cerebral, and of the organic motor nerves, as 
distinguished from those which are connected with secretion and 
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