696 COMPARATIVE VIEWS OF THE STOMACH AND 
questions in medicine, surgery, and pharmacy; a gold medal 
being awarded to the officer acquitting himself the best. 
The Sanitary Committee, Sir, ask you to extend this measure 
to the veterinary surgeons of the army. Questions relating to the 
conservation and management of troop horses will be annually 
proposed to them; a gold medal, of value to be fixed by yourself, 
being awarded to the authors of the most approved answers. 
(Signed) MAGENDIE. 
This recommendation was carried into effect; and the result 
was the production of a Memoir on Farcy, for which the gold 
medal was awarded to M. Gillet, Veterinary Surgeon en premier 
to the 7th Regiment of Lancers. From this “ Memoir” we shall 
at some future time cull some extracts. 
Foreign Extracts. 
Comparative Views of the Stomach and Intestines in our 
Domestic Animals. 
By M. Colin, Chef de Service at the Alfort School. 
NATURE, ever wise in her plans and skilful in the execution of 
them, has instituted between the general economy and the digest¬ 
ive apparatus a most perfect accordance; nor has she taken less 
pains in suiting the organs of digestion to the herbivorous, carni¬ 
vorous, or omnivorous habits of the animal. 
The stomach presents great uniformity of configuration in all 
mammifera, the ruminant excepted, in which it comprehends four 
divisions or compartments. In all these animals the organ is 
placed transversely in relation to the median plane of the body. 
In solipedes the stomach is divided by a transverse depression, 
more or less conspicuous, into two compartments. Internally, this 
line of demarcation is rendered the more noticeable by the one 
being a continuation of the esophagean lining, and being therefore 
white, thin, little vascular or sensible, and covered by a thick epi¬ 
thelium ; while the other, destitute of epithelium, is, on the con¬ 
trary, rosy, thick, very vascular, and very sensible, being designed 
for the secretion of the gastric juice. 
In these animals (solipedes) the stomach is separated from the 
inferior abdominal parietes, as Lamorier has remarked, by large 
