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I r, The middle lobe of the liven
12, The fpleen.
13, The pancreas.
14, The lower part of the right kidney.
1 5 , The ovarium or egg-bed of the right fide.
1 6 , 1 6 , The mouths of the two utérine or Fallopian tubes, with probes introduced
into them.
1 7 , A white glandular organ, through which the right uterine tube pafîès.
18, The uterus of the right fide filled with a complete egg.
19, ig. The cavity of the pericardium.
20, The venuicle of the heait turned upwards, after being cut away from
2 1 , The diaphragm.
22, 22,22, and 23, 23,23, Two probes paiTed behind the heart into a funnell
i k e tube, which, below, divides into two branches connected to the csfophagus
; by \vhich the cavity of the pericardium communicates with the cavity of
•the abdomen.
24, Reprefents the lower part of the right vena cava abdoininalis ; at Avhich
place there is a very large reccptacle of the blood covered by the ovarium, the
root of which only appears here ; and even that is imperfectly fliown.
25, The opening of the renal veins into tlie cava.
26, Large palTages b y which the two cavae communicate.
2 7 , The top of the right abdominal cava.
28, A large vein from the mufcles and other parts behind the abdomen.
29, A large vein from the abdominal mufcles and fide of the fiih.
30, A large vein refembling uur pofterior external jugular.
3 1 , A receptacle formed by tlie veiise cavse hepdticje; the diameter of which
is ten times greater than that of the opening from tlie receptacle into the cava,-
into which a probe is put.
32, Dotted lines, marking tlie iituadon of a tranfverfe vein which joins the
right and left vena: cava: hepaticze, and receives into it the middle vena cava
hepaùca;
3 3 ' 3 3 ' The right internal jugular vein; at the termination of which there is
a pair of valves.
34, A fmall vein, fomewhat like to our anterior external jugular.
3 5 , The termination of the left vena cava, which is compofed of branches
c x a d l y correfponding with thofe of the right fide.
36, The termination of the ladeal and lymphatic vcflels, or of the lymphatic
fyftem, into the trunk of the great vein which refembles our fubclavian, and
which next receives the internal jugular vein. At this termination there is a
pair of valves, which perform their office with great accuracy. So that the termination
of the lymphatic fyftem in the ikate refembles the termination of that '
f y f t em in man, both as to place and ftrudure.
A s there are two vcnre cavze of equal fize, fo we ftiall find that the termina-
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