Anatomy of the Intestinal Canal and Peritoneum in Man

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,-The account of the intestinal canal and peritoneum in man, that I have the honour to bring before you, is derived from the systematic examination of one hundred fresh bodies. Through the kindness of my colleagues, Drs. Sutton and Turner, the pathologists to the London Hospital, I was enabled to open, before the performance of the usual necropsy, all the bodies of patients that had died of other than abdominal disease. The bodies, therefore, were quite fresh, and, in many instances, still warm. I had long been convinced that a study of this part of anatomy was rendered liable to many fallacies when conducted in dissecting-room subjects in whom decomposition had advanced, and in. whom one could expect, for various reasons, some displacement of parts. Certain questions as to vascular-npply I havefolloweAl out in in-