PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

PART I. ANATOMY OF THE PERITONEUM AND ABDOMINAL CAVITY.

PART II. ANATOMY OF THE PERITONEUM IN THE SUPRA-COLIC COMPARTMENT OF THE ABDOMEN.

PART III. LARGE AND SMALL INTESTINE, ILEO-COLIC JUNCTION AND CAECUM.

PART IV. MORPHOLOGY OF THE HUMAN CAECUM AND VERMIFORM APPENDIX.

INDEX.

Transcriber’s notes:

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Errors and inconsistencies:
The text contains numerous inconsistencies of hyphenation. A few have been adjusted where there was clear evidence of a preferred style (e.g. meso-colic-->mesocolic and meso-duodenum-->mesoduodenum) but most have been left in their original format.

A few spelling typos have been corrected silently (e.g. improtant-->important, mecocolon-->mesocolon) and missing letters have been inserted inside square brackets (e.g. junct[i]on, t[r]ansverse). Some spelling inconsistencies possibly represent contemporarily acceptable spelling alternatives (e.g. coati/coaiti, mesal/mesial, prÆcava/precava, hyÆna/hyena). The term STOMADÆUM is incorrectly spelt as STOMADŒUM in Figs. 27 and 101, and Fig. 250 has an incorrect label on the R. vitelline vein.

A small number of punctuation inconsistencies have been corrected silently by insertion of missing punctuation or deletion of redundant punctuation.

The abbreviation viz. appears inconsistently in both roman and italic font.

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Table of Contents:
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