Identifier: b20416039_003 (find matches)
Title: On the anatomy of vertebrates (electronic resource)
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
Subjects: Anatomy, Comparative Vertebrates Fishes Reptiles Mammals Birds
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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direction, and four reverse coils in the interspaces of thepreceding, the gut being bent back upon itself: the length ofthis part of the intestine when unravelled is about fourteen feet.The spiral coils are not on the same plane, but form a depressedand oblique cone, whose concavity is next the mesentery. Thecolon, emerging from its coils, passes to the right, behind the rootof the mesentery, becomes connected with the duodenum and the 1 cxlvii. vol. i. 2nd ed. (1852) p. 229, No. 760 A, and No. 760 d (Camclus). 2 cxlvii. vol. i. p. 220, Nos. 726 c (Vicugna) 726 d (Llama) p. 221.8 xcvri. p. 227. Pouched disposition of agminate follicles,Giraffe, xcvn. 476 ANATOMY OF VERTEBRATES. first part of its own course, then winds round to the left of themesentery, and finally recedes backward and descends to formthe rectum. In those Ruminants, as the Ox, which have softundivided faeces, the coils are Jess numerous and regular; thecaecum is between two and three feet long in the Ox; it is sub- 365
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Ileo-caBCal valve and contiguous agminate follicles, Giraffe, xcvi. bifid at the end in the Buffalo: the colon is shorter and widerlii both, than in the Giraffe, Deer, Sheep and Goat tribes, wherethe faeces are expelled in small pellets. In such Kuminants theanus is a more contracted aperture than in the Bovines or inPerissodactyles. ALIMENTARY CANAL OF ARTIODACTYLA. 477 The herbivorous Mammals differ from the carnivorous more inthe character of their large than of their small intestines. Theless putrefactive nature of their food renders it susceptible of alonger retention in the body ; and the receptacular and sacculatestructures, and convolute extension, of the large intestines seemespecially designed to retard the course of the alimentary sub-stances. In the anomalous instance in a Human body, recordedby Abernethy, of a reduction of the length of the small intes-tine to about two feet, the compensation was effected by an un-usual length and size of the colon. The condition of the s

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